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  • Background articles, Posts

    Dialogue strengthens safety culture

    «I work in an interdisciplinary team of psychologists and engineers. For me people are not sources of error, but a safety factor. Suitable organisational framework conditions are needed for this purpose. We review these as part of our supervisory work. With our activity we wish to trigger a dialogue in and with those responsible for…

  • Background articles, Posts

    ENSI’s tasks

    150 employees of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI work every day in various fields for the nuclear safety of the Swiss population.

  • Background articles, Posts

    We vouch for the safety of the population.

    «ENSI’s successful supervisory work largely depends on the quality of its staff. It is not only their experience and special qualifications that are needed, but also their values, their attitude and their ability to enter into a critical, but constructive relationship with operators and with the stakeholders in politics and society.»

  • Background articles, Posts

    A credible partner in questions of nuclear safety

    Council’s energy strategy for 2050 is based on a gradual withdrawal from the nuclear energy programme. Under the new conditions, ENSI, as a specialised body of the Confederation that is politically and economically independent, also ensures the safety of nuclear installations.

  • News

    ENSI Board member Karine Rausis deceased

    The ENSI Board mourns Karine Rausis. She passed away at the beginning of January 2016. Karine Rausis had been a member of the independent supervisory body of the nuclear supervisory authority ENSI since the beginning of 2014.

  • News

    Federal Council appoints Monica Duca Widmer as new member to the ENSI Board

    The Federal Council confirmed the current ENSI Board members for the 2016 to 2019 term and appointed Monica Duca Widmer as a new member to the board. She will succeed Hans Pfeiffer, who is retiring from the board at the end of 2015.

  • Andreas Schefer

    Director, Staff of the Directorate Division: After his apprenticeship and employment as a laboratory assistant at Ciba-Geigy AG, Andreas Schefer studied law at the University of Basel. He received his degree in 2001. He was then employed at the University of Basel, in the Department of Justice of Basel-City and in the Department of Health…

  • News

    Hans-Jürgen Pfeiffer will not be standing for another period in office on the ENSI Board

    The Swiss Federal Council will select a new member of the ENSI Board by the end of this year for the next term of office. Following his two terms in office, Hans-Jürgen Pfeiffer will no longer be serving on the Board. For reasons of age he is ending his work in the strategic and internal…

  • Regelwerk ENSI
    News

    ENSI Board approves strategy for ENSI’s regulatory framework

    The regulatory framework of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) is harmonised with the relevant international requirements. ENSI only issues its own guidelines when it is necessary to do so, and it involves all the stakeholders when it drafts them. These principles are stated in a new strategy for the regulatory framework which the…