W15 Leadership and Safety Culture: International Perspectives

The NRC's Safety Culture Policy Statement and Leadership Model has received widespread international attention. The NRC staff regularly attends international meetings on these topics and participates in the Nuclear Energy Agency's Working Group on Leadership and Safety Culture (WGLSC). Over the last 2 years, the WGLSC has conducted literature reviews, surveys, and interviews with their member countries' regulatory bodies and industries to produce two reports on leadership and safety culture: (1) The Mutual Impact of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies and License Holders from a Safety Culture Perspective, which explores how the safety culture of the regulator impacts that of licensees (and vice versa) and identifies good practices and lessons learned, and (2) Leadership for Safety: Practices for Enhancing Leadership for Safety in Nuclear Regulatory Bodies, which identifies effective leadership characteristics, competencies, and behaviors in regulatory bodies with a healthy safety culture. International representatives will offer other perspectives on leadership and safety culture.


SESSION CHAIR(S):
 

• Opening Remarks
  David Pelton, Director, OE/NRC

SPEAKER(S):
 

• Opening Remarks on Nuclear Energy Agency
  William Magwood, Director-General, Nuclear Energy Agency
• Opening Remarks on Working Group on Leadership and Safety Culture
  Nobuhiko Ban, Commissioner, Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan
• NEA Report 1: The Mutual Impact of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies and License Holders from a Safety Culture Perspective
  Marc McBride, Principal Inspector, Nuclear Safety, Office for Nuclear Regulation, United Kingdom
• NEA Report 2: Leadership for Safety Practices for Enhancing Leadership fpr Safety in Nuclear Regulatory Bodies
  John Thelen, Operations Secretariat, Regulatory Operations Branch, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
• Marta Ziakova, Chair, Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Slovak Republic
• Mark Foy, Chief Executive and Chief Nuclear Inspector, Office for Nuclear Regulation, United Kingdom
• Annemiek van Bolhuis, Chair, Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection, Netherlands

SESSION COORDINATOR(S):
 

• Catherine Thompson, Safety Culture Specialist, Concerns Resolutions Branch, OE/NRC e-mail: Catherine.Thompson@nrc.gov