Abstract
Safety is the primary purpose of the regulatory body, Regulator plays a significant role in the field of nuclear safety even though the prime responsibility for safety belongs to the operator, the regulator which actually decides what is considered to be safe. In order to effectively implement the international principle of high level of nuclear safety, nuclear safety culture should be clearly named as an objective in international nuclear legal acts and the regulator’s responsibility for promotion of nuclear safety culture should be established. What is more difficult for the regulator is finding the right balance of firmness but fairness in dealing with the operator. In addition to enforcing safety regulations, the regulator should have a positive effect on the operator’s safety culture. The regulator can promote safety culture in the operator’s organization just through the mere fact of placing it on the agenda at the highest organizational levels.
Highlights
It is well know that nuclear power plant operations are complex and tightly coupling, international recommendations assure the clear significance of people related problem, deficiencies in the organizations structures and management problems
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of proposed safety culture attributes and to discuss the role of regulatory body in the field of the safety culture by determining the level of the safety culture and how to promote and assess safety culture
Efforts should be directed at strategies for countering attributes that would hinder the development of a strong safety culture
Summary
It is well know that nuclear power plant operations are complex and tightly coupling, international recommendations assure the clear significance of people related problem, deficiencies in the organizations structures and management problems. Safety cannot be achieved only through rules, regulations, hardware design, and operating procedures It requires onsite intelligence, learning, and decision making by plant operating staff. Magy Kandil: The Role of the Regulator in the Field of Safety Culture to Shun Nuclear Accident is just “the way we do things around here”, or “our basic values”, or “our rituals”, and so on. Safety culture refers to the attitudes, behaviors, and conditions that affect safety performance and often arises in discussions following incidents at nuclear power plants. As it involves both operational and management issues, safety culture is a sensitive topic for regulators whose role is to ensure compliance with safety requirements and not to intervene in management decisions. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of proposed safety culture attributes and to discuss the role of regulatory body in the field of the safety culture by determining the level of the safety culture and how to promote and assess safety culture
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