Traits of a
Healthy Nuclear
Safety Culture
Healthy Nuclear
Safety Culture
In this NSC trait: Individuals avoid complacency and continuously challenge existing conditions and activities in order to identify discrepancies that might result in error or inappropriate action.
What is Questioning Attitude?
A work environment where employees have, and feel they have, the freedom to raise safety concerns without fear of retaliation.
What is a Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE)?
The collection and dissemination of knowledge gained via the operation of nuclear facilities. It often includes descriptions of actual events and near-misses and how they were identified and resolved with the objective of preventing future recurrence.
What is Operating experience (OE)?
• Control of reactivity
• Removal of heat from the fuel (in the reactor, during fuel storage and handling, and including long-term heat removal)
• Confinement of radioactive material, shielding against radiation and control of planned radioactive releases, as well as limitation of accidental radioactive releases
What are the Fundamental Safety Functions (FSFs)?
In this NSC trait: Issues potentially impacting safety are promptly identified, fully evaluated, and promptly addressed and corrected commensurate with their significance.
What is Problem Identification & Resolution?
GE's Core Tenents (hint: SQDC)
What is safety, quality, delivery and cost?
This person sends out Rapid Lesson Learned emails to our organization, with a colorful border that correlates to the severity of the event.
Who is Carol Konicki?
This is a list of the numbers assigned to the BWRX-300 defense lines which support a defense-in-depth approach to safety.
What is (Defense line) 1, 2, 3, 4a, 4b, 5?
The document title for INPO 12-002 ?
What is "Traits of a Healthy Nuclear Safety Culture"?
The title of GE's SCWE program.
What is Nuclear Ombuds?
The name of GE's software that supports Problem Identification & Resolution via Condition Reports.
What is Gensuite?
The title for 006N6045, a document whose purpose is to describe the defense-in-depth design approach and framework for performing safety assessment for the BWRX-300.
What is 'Safety Strategy'?