ONR Projects continuing
5 September 2022
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) are committed to carrying out an assessment of its regulatory culture, and have engaged colleagues from the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) to carry out this task.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) are committed to carrying out an assessment of its regulatory culture, and have engaged colleagues from the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) to carry out this task.
The two key aims of the assessment are: to determine the extent to which ONR culture supports them to achieve their mission: to protect society by securing safe nuclear operations; and to provide recommendations which will allow them to learn lessons to further strengthen it's regulatory culture.
The project team had a successful progress meeting, and project milestones are being met.
The same team are delivering a second project with the ONR, around the development and validation of a safety culture model and survey instrument, for assessing safety culture within the UK Nuclear Industry.
The model will support the UK nuclear regulator (Office for Nuclear Regulation, ONR) in its regulatory duties, and the UK nuclear industry in efforts to improve nuclear safety. In addition, based on this model, the research will develop and validate a survey to measure safety culture at UK-based nuclear sites.