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Lead Author: Jeeyea Ahn Co-author(s): Wooseok Jo, cws5528@unist.ac.kr; Byung Joo Min, bjmin135@unist.ac.kr; Seung Jun Lee, sjlee420@unist.ac.kr

A methodology for measuring the difficulty of nuclear safety culture and safety management factors
Since a strong safety culture is required for safety, the evaluation of safety culture and safety management must also meet the requirements of safety evaluation. However, at present, there is no suitable method to evaluate safety culture or safety management index in this systematic way. Most existing safety culture evaluation methods mainly focus on evaluating the maturity level of the target organization's safety culture, and do not take into account the concept of a graded approach and generally do not deviate from the framework of discovery and removal of vulnerable elements. Moreover, there is currently no unified safety culture model, so there is a difficulty in smooth communication due to differences in understanding of the same factors between organizations during safety culture-related exchanges. In this regard, this research has a purpose to develop an in-depth analysis tool for safety culture for detailed analysis by safety culture attribute and to propose a methodology to promote mutual understanding of safety culture by institution. This method can be utilized in the distribution of appropriate resources when establishing a response strategy for the improvement of the organization's safety culture weaknesses, which can be obtained from the results of other safety culture evaluations in the future. The weight of each factor contributing to the difficulty of safety culture reflects the respondents' bias in perception of the difficulty of safety culture, meaningful results can be derived by comparing them. For example, it can be used to derive the difference in the perception of safety culture that exists between the regulatory body and the operating organization, or to derive the difference in the perception of safety culture according to the position within the organization. The concept of difficulty and quantification method of safety culture characteristic elements proposed in this study were used in F-D matrix analysis for in-depth analysis of safety culture. In this paper, the concept of difficulty in safety culture characteristic elements will be defined and a quantification method will be introduced.

A methodology for measuring the difficulty of nuclear safety culture and safety management factors

Since a strong safety culture is required for safety, the evaluation of safety culture and safety management must also meet the requirements of safety evaluation. However, at present, there is no suitable method to evaluate safety culture or safety management index in this systematic way. Most existing safety culture evaluation methods mainly focus on evaluating the maturity level of the target organization's safety culture, and do not take into account the concept of a graded approach and generally do not deviate from the framework of discovery and removal of vulnerable elements. Moreover, there is currently no unified safety culture model, so there is a difficulty in smooth communication due to differences in understanding of the same factors between organizations during safety culture-related exchanges. In this regard, this research has a purpose to develop an in-depth analysis tool for safety culture for detailed analysis by safety culture attribute and to propose a methodology to promote mutual understanding of safety culture by institution. This method can be utilized in the distribution of appropriate resources when establishing a response strategy for the improvement of the organization's safety culture weaknesses, which can be obtained from the results of other safety culture evaluations in the future. The weight of each factor contributing to the difficulty of safety culture reflects the respondents' bias in perception of the difficulty of safety culture, meaningful results can be derived by comparing them. For example, it can be used to derive the difference in the perception of safety culture that exists between the regulatory body and the operating organization, or to derive the difference in the perception of safety culture according to the position within the organization. The concept of difficulty and quantification method of safety culture characteristic elements proposed in this study were used in F-D matrix analysis for in-depth analysis of safety culture. In this paper, the concept of difficulty in safety culture characteristic elements will be defined and a quantification method will be introduced.

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Lead Author Name: Jeeyea Ahn (jeeya@unist.ac.kr)

Bio: I am a graduate student of the nuclear safety and HMI evolution lab (NuSAPHE: pronounced as nu-safe) at UNIST. I am interested in nuclear safety and human/organizational factors, and I am also interested in research in various fields to prevent accidents caused by human error in nuclear power plants. I am currently studying nuclear safety culture, which has been considered one of the important organizational factors.

Country: South Korea
Company: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Job Title: Combined m.s.-ph.d. student (ph.d candidate)

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