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III Performance Assessment and Improvement of Safety and Security Culture
III Performance Assessment and Improvement of Safety and Security Culture
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when it was undergoing very rigorous inspections. Admiral James Watkins, the secretary of energy at the time, strongly emphasized safety culture and security culture, and the U.S.
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Providing a safe and secure environment for nuclear material instills public confidence. Moving from a national-leadership level to operational considerations, many aspects of a strong security culture begin through hiring practices.
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It is thus critical that security culture be monitored closely; that we look for indicators that security culture might be degrading. And generally, when people examine major incidents such as at Y-12, they will often find ignored indicators.
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Security awareness involves training conducted for employees, so that they understand security, but security culture goes deeper than that. The integrated work scope program links roles and responsibilities to certain work activities and to training requirements.
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Dr. Barroso therefore suggested an addition to the standard definition "Safety culture is the assembly of systems, characteristics, mindsets, and attitudes of the organization and individual levels which assures that, as an overriding priority, nuclear safety issues receive the attention warranted by their significance." He added, "and adequate resources, information, and actionable knowledge are empowered at the decision or action points where safety issues are dealt with." He noted that the chief operations officer at the Fukushima nuclear power plant said that if he were in charge he would have flooded the cooling system 1 Schein, E
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Barroso assessed the frequency of the term nuclear safety culture in the Scopus database of relevant journals and conferences. From 1997 to 2011, nuclear safety culture was largely absent from the nuclear industry literature.
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It is almost impossible to pass a breathalyzer test and fail a physical reaction test. With safety culture, he argued, we need a reflective construct to conduct reliability tests and validity tests, and we need valid and reliable assessment instruments.
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5 The Synergy Between Safety Culture and Operational Excellence – Ivan de Souza Azevedo, Eletrobras Eletronuclear Mr. Azevedo stated the need to improve continuously to achieve a good safety culture and proceeded to discuss safety culture principles at Eletronuclear power plants.
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The ensuing integrated management policy was updated in 2004, will be updated again this year, and remains part of an ongoing review. Eletronuclear also established an integrated policy for the whole company, stating: "Nuclear safety is a priority, precedes productivity and economic aspects, and should never be impaired for any reason." The IAEA helped convene a successful conference on safety culture in Rio de Janeiro with power plant operators from all over the world.
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Nuclear forensics is a useful intelligence tool and can be incorporated mainly in security culture.
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Patient safety may not be very good in terms of total death, but patient safety culture is much more widely discussed than nuclear safety culture.
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Safety culture and security culture are mutable, and can be changed for the better and for the worse. Change starts with leadership, its decisions, and its responses to failures.
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Indicators are ways to examine outcome or performance, but the culture we are trying to understand is how you got to the performance. In a nuclear power plant, one indicator for evaluating maintenance technicians is how many times a task has to be redone due to an initially incorrect execution.
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