Regulating nuclear safety through safety culture

Bernard, Benoît

doi:10.1016/j.jnlssr.2021.08.001

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“…In the literature, safety culture is modeled in terms of safety culture maturity. Models of safety culture maturity define specific states or levels that assess the completeness of the objects analyzed, usually an organization or process, through various sets of multidimensional criteria [ 37 , 46 , 47 , 48 ]. Assessment, whether qualitative or quantitative, of a safety culture requires the identification of characteristics, and further adoption of indicators that will allow the assessment of the level of safety culture.…”

Section: Crucial Safety Culture Maturity Modelsmentioning

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Methodology for the Determination of a Process Safety Culture Index and Safety Culture Maturity Level in Industries

Siuta

Kukfisz

Kuczyńska

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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A mature of safety culture is crucial to preventing and mitigating accidents, incidents, and unsafe behaviors in the process industry, so as to make it more sustainable and economically responsible. Measurement, investigation, and assessment of the safety culture using interviews, questionnaires, behavior observation, reviewing documentation, and its impact on the safety performances of an organization is complicated, challenging, and requires a commitment to all employees. The aim of this study was to propose a novel, unique semi-quantitative methodology for the determination of a total process safety culture index and parametric model of process safety culture maturity in an organization based on the Bradley model. The methodology includes a questionnaire concerning different process safety culture factors, calculation procedures, and a graphical tool. In addition, three quantitative survey indicators were proposed: indicators of direct communication, average communication time, and the applicability rate of the proposed changes by employees. A fully-developed total process safety culture index allows for identifying, hierarchizing, and benchmarking different factors of the safety culture among companies and sectors. Moreover, it will enable identifying the area of actions required to improve safety practices and elements applied to the organization analyzed. The proposed methodology was verified in a case study of one energy company with three locations in Poland and can be easily applied to different industrial fields, including logistics and warehousing, the food industry, the paper industry, security services, fire services, and environmental and other agencies.

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Section: Crucial Safety Culture Maturity Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology for the Determination of a Process Safety Culture Index and Safety Culture Maturity Level in Industries

Siuta

Kukfisz

Kuczyńska

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…A radiological event involves radionuclides that are not induced by nuclear explosions. Radiological events include accidents at nuclear power plants, transportation, and radiological dispersal devices (RDD) [217] .…”

Section: International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scalementioning

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Atmospheric dispersion of chemical, biological, and radiological hazardous pollutants: Informing risk assessment for public safety

Zhang

Wang

2022

Journal of Safety Science and Resilience

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“…Safety culture is largely intangible which makes it distinct from more conventional areas of regulation. Because of this, while some authors have argued that safety culture should not be of regulatory concern (Grote & Weichbrodt, 2013), others have countered that a focus on safety culture offers the opportunity to assess and influence aspects of safety practice that may otherwise be missed (e.g., Bernard, 2021; Bradley, 2017; Naevestad et al., 2021). Yet, this leaves open the question how regulators seek to understand and influence an organization's safety culture.…”

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“…Traditionally, risk regulation has predominantly concerned formal aspects of safety by setting and enforcing explicit rules and standards within safety management systems or technical processes. More recently, there has been a shift toward the regulation of less tangible aspects of safety such as safety culture (Bernard, 2021;Grote & Weichbrodt, 2013;Naevestad et al, 2021Naevestad et al, , 2019. Safety culture refers to the shared underlying beliefs, attitudes, and values that employees hold about risk and safety (Mearns et al, 1998).…”

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Understanding the regulator–regulatee relationship for developing safety culture

Willis,

Holman,

Clarke

et al. 2023

Risk Analysis

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Regulatory authorities in safety‐critical industries typically seek to influence the safety culture of the organizations they oversee. However, we know little about how regulatory authorities achieve this influence (e.g., what roles are adopted, relationship characteristics) and, more generally, about how external actors shape an organization's safety culture. Using a qualitative design in the nuclear industry, we developed our conceptual and empirical understanding of the roles through which a regulator influences the safety culture of their regulated organizations and what characteristics within the regulator–regulatee relationship facilitate positive safety culture developments. Data were collected through interviews with inspectors from a nuclear regulator and employees of regulated nuclear organizations, and from an inspection of regulatory documents. The findings identified that the regulator was perceived to hold three complementary roles for safety culture development: being an enforcer, working as a partner (providing opportunities for licenseholders to improve beyond compliance), and acting as an advisor to regulated organizations. Analysis also showed that effective relationships in these roles, and which were central to influencing safety culture, were perceived to be characterized by professionalism, transparency, and balance between formal enforcement and informal exchange. Theoretical implications to advance conceptualizations of safety culture as well as practical implications for risk regulators are discussed.

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Regulating nuclear safety through safety culture

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Methodology for the Determination of a Process Safety Culture Index and Safety Culture Maturity Level in Industries

Methodology for the Determination of a Process Safety Culture Index and Safety Culture Maturity Level in Industries

Atmospheric dispersion of chemical, biological, and radiological hazardous pollutants: Informing risk assessment for public safety

Understanding the regulator–regulatee relationship for developing safety culture

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