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  • Country Specific Safety Culture Forum (CSSCF) Switzerland
    News, Posts

    Typical Swiss characteristics and their influence on safety and oversight culture

    Professionalism, precision, personal responsibility: such typical Swiss characteristics support a good safety culture. Other typical characteristics, such as a focus on consensus and complacency, on the other hand, could have a negative influence, writes the NEA/OECD in its recently published report on the Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum Switzerland held at the end of 2024.

  • Bild des Saals vom CSSCF im November 2024
    Allgemein, News, Posts

    Oversight authority and operators of Swiss nuclear facilities continue to develop safety culture

    The Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum Switzerland took place in Bern on 19 and 20 November 2024. Representatives from various institutions discussed Switzerland’s national culture and analysed its influence on the safety and oversight culture of nuclear facilities. The aim is to continuously improve safety and security. The results will be summarised in a report and…

  • Safety Culture

    ENSI oversees the safety culture of the Swiss nuclear installations. It defines the concept of safety culture for the purposes of its oversight as follows: Safety culture includes values shared by the members of the operator’s organisation, world views, verbal and non-verbal behaviour, and characteristics of the man-made physical environment. The safety culture includes those…

  • Oversight of Safety Culture in Nuclear Installations

    In this report, ENSI illustrates how it supervises safety culture. Based on a model for the over-sight of safety culture, it demonstrates that the supervisory authority cannot treat the entire content of safety culture in the same way. Part of this content can be observed and assessed with classical supervisory instruments, whereas other content –…