Decreasing Ambiguity of the Safety Culture Concept
The status of the concept of ''safety culture'' is reviewed. It has not sufficiently taken root. One cause for this is the abstract nature of the concept. Organizations must become aware of the necessity of improving safety and have sufficient power to promote this. The culture of safety must be instilled in each employee, so that each of them will feel responsible for identifying weak points in plant safety. The authors devised a tool for a self-assessment of the safety culture. The tool will bring to light information divides, communication gaps, etc. Recognizing the vulnerabilities of the organization by themselves and discussing these weak points among them is the first step to decrease the ambiguity of the safety culture. The next step is to make these gaps known along with agreed-upon countermeasures. The concept of safety culture will be greatly clarified in this way and lead to safer nuclear power plants.
- Research Organization:
- Institute for Science of Labour Research, Kawasaki (JP); Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- None (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 786521
- Report Number(s):
- ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN TANSAO; ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN TANSAO; TRN: US0108925
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2001 Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI (US), 06/17/2001--06/21/2001; Other Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, volume 84; PBD: 17 Jun 2001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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