Transcript Health physics sector: competences required from safety

TRASNUSAFE
Training Schemes on Nuclear Safety Culture
FP7 Euratom - Grant agreement no.: 249674
Michel GIOT
Université catholique de Louvain and SCK•CEN, Belgium
[email protected]
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TRASNUSAFE
is part of the response to the needs for a EU industrial
nuclear policy: see the recent report:
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Brussels, 16.9.2011, COM(2011) 563 final
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL
1ST SITUATION REPORT ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN
THE NUCLEAR ENERGY FIELD IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Contents
Objectives of the Project
Structure of the Project
Participants
Roles of the two User Groups
Pilot sessions: EUROCOURSES
Managerial competences in Nuclear Safety Culture
Analysis of the needs
Conclusions of the Brussels Workshop
Possible topics for “specialised modules”
Contribution to harmonisation of safety in EU
ECVET as a tool
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Objectives of the Project
TRASNUSAFE aims at
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designing, developing and validating
two training schemes on nuclear safety culture
with a common basis
for professionals operating at a high level of managerial
responsibilities in nuclear installations.
One training scheme: related to the nuclear industry,
The other: related to the installations making use of ionising
radiation based technology (mainly in short: the medical sector)
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Final goals of the two training schemes on nuclear safety culture:
 Contribute to safety
 Contribute to harmonisation of safety culture
 as part of a comprehensive and recognised vocational E&T in the
European Union
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Beneficiary
TECNATOM
SCK•CEN
ITN
JSI
CEPN
EAN
UCL
UPB
UNIMAN
STUBA
CIRTEN
UPM
ENEN
CNCAN
TRACTEBEL
EITA
SNN
SEAS
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UK
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WP1
(Analysis)
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WP2
(ALARA/NSC)
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WP3
(D&D)
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WP4
(Validation)
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PCC
(Coordin.)
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UG-I
UG-M
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QA
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Three Participants from Romania
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CNCAN: Comisia Nationala pentru Controlul
Activitatilor Nucleare (head of User Group 2)
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UPB Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti
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Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica S.A. (Member User
Group 1)
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Role of the two User Groups
The members of the two User Groups come from Regulators,
Industry, International Professional Associations
The leader of each User Group is member of the Project
Coordination Committee
The Members of the User Groups give advise throughout the
project, in particular on the relevance of the contents of the
modules
They review the deliverables
They send (free of charge) a limited number of participants to
the pilot sessions
They participate de facto in the international validation and
recognition of the final product
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Five modules leading to five
EUROCOURSES
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One generic module + four specialised modules
The choice of topics of the specialised modules will be
made based on the analysis of the needs
Constraint of time for each course
Need to train the trainers (coaches)
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Managerial competences needed
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Leading a continuous collective effort to keep high level
safety standards and to match the ALARA goals:
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at all steps of design, construction, operation and dismantling of
nuclear installations,
including transport of fuel, waste, and other radioactive
materials like medical radio-isotopes
Such leadership is based on
 Knowledge and understanding of safety issues and solutions
 Expertise in radiation protection
 Knowledge and understanding of regulation
 Managerial skills
 Spirit of questioning, investigating, searching, assessing
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Response of TRASNUSAFE
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It is not the aim of TRASNUSAFE to offer in depth
training on scientific / technical subjects, nor on
regulations.
Scientific /technical subjects and regulations will be rather
considered as a prerequisite necessary for studying the
implementation of a nuclear safety culture in a given
professional environment.
The schemes will focus on the managerial skills
through case studies, experience feedback, analysis of the
communication between the internal actors, practical
work in team, etc.
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Systematic analysis of the needs in the EU
OBJECTIVES
 To obtain quantitative information of the provisional
fluxes of managers in charge of safety that can be
expected for general or specific trainings on nuclear
safety culture
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To obtain qualitative information on the
characteristics of the potential trainees, their
scientific background, their professional environment,
their responsibilities, and their expectations
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Methodology of the analysis of the needs
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Questionnaire (120 replies over 450 persons invited to fill
in the on-line questionnaire; 15 replies from Romania)
Contacts with national and international agencies
including IAEA
Seminars with invited experts at five locations in Europe:
Brussels, Bucharest, Madrid, London (?), Ljubljana
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Who answered the questionnaire ?
Sector
Answer Answer
Percent
Total
Medical
14.92%
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Nuclear Power Plant
10.5%
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Nuclear Industry
6.08%
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Nuclear Research
18.78%
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Transport
1.1%
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Education
22.1%
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Regulation
14.92%
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11.6%
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Total answers
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Unique Respondents
120
Other : (Please specify)
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Present training level
None
1 year
On the job Answers
course
training
during
university
curriculum
Quality management 11.61% (18) 9.68% (15) 26.45% (41) 5.16% (8) 47.1% (73)
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Management and
20.28% (29) 9.79% (14) 23.78% (34) 11.19% (16) 34.97% (50)
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leadership
Industrial Safety
25.52% (37) 12.41% (18) 18.62% (27) 11.72% (17) 31.72% (46)
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Radiation protection 1.27% (2) 7.01% (11) 28.66% (45) 26.75% (42) 36.31% (57)
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Safety culture
8.11% (12) 16.22% (24) 23.65% (35) 11.49% (17) 40.54% (60)
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ALARA concept and 11.03% (16) 12.41% (18) 24.14% (35) 11.72% (17) 40.69% (59)
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implementation
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Importance of topics for generic module (1/2)
Rating
mean
Risk concept and risk culture
8.6 / 10
Nuclear safety definition and history
7.39 / 10
Safety culture definition, characteristics and evolution (new safety
reports and guides, etc.)
7.9 / 10
Radiation protection principles
8.63 / 10
Radiation safety of radioactive sources
8.16 / 10
Defence in depth
7.97 / 10
Decision making process: risk/benefit, cost/benefit and multi-criteria
analyses
7.67 / 10
Decision making process: Practical Exercise
7.87 / 10
Risk perception by workers and the public including media
7.95 / 10
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Importance of topics for generic module (2/2)
Rating
mean
Human factors
8.45 / 10
Incident reporting and learning from non-conformities
8.16 / 10
ALARA (optimisation) principle, implementation and tools
8.44 / 10
Organizational culture
8.06 / 10
Managers responsibilities (legal issues)
8.13 / 10
The societal context of safety culture
7.45 / 10
Case studies: Accidents in nuclear power plants (e.g. TMI, Chernobyl, 8.29 / 10
Fukushima, etc.)
Case studies: Accidents in the medical sector (radiotherapy accident, 7.92 / 10
incidental radioactive effluents releases, loss of radioactive source…)
Case studies: Accidents in the industry (loss of radioactive source,
industrial radiography, etc.)
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7.96 / 10
International recognition
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Conclusions of the Brussels Workshop (1/3)
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The need to develop the safety culture training
specifically for (high) managerial level was recognized by
all participants
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This training is supplementary to the safety training given
to the workforce in nuclear industry or in other sectors
working with radioactive sources
While the latter safety training is work related, tuned to
concrete working conditions and often organized by (and in)
the companies, the safety culture training for managers
approaches safety as a risk management issue
As such this safety culture training for managers is largely
sector independent
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Conclusions of the Brussels Workshop (2/3)
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Content of the training
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The training needs to address the ‘management
perspective’ of safety culture, it will approach safety
culture as a risk management challenge
The training will focus on the importance of a safety policy,
ways to foster a good safety culture, management
systems to manage the safety, tools to measure safety culture,
consequences of inappropriate safety culture, …
To be successful, the training should use concepts from
management sciences and adopt the ‘language’ of senior
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Conclusions of the Brussels Workshop (3/3)
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Content of the training
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The general module of the TRASNUSAFE safety culture training
starts from a universal approach to risk management:
safety culture is a general challenge for organizations
But for organizations dealing with nuclear material and
radioactive sources, the safety culture training also needs to
include sector specific elements, such as
an overview of the safety systems generally implemented in the sector,
and
 an overview of the system of radiation protection, including attention for
protection principles as optimization and justification, and techniques
such as ALARA processes
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Possible topics for specialised modules
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1) Human error reduction tool and organisation failures
2) “Ethical” aspects of the radiological risk: Justification / optimisation
of radiotherapy and doses to the patients, and the ways to implement the
best practices in the hospitals
3) Crisis management and nuclear safety culture: This includes the
communication process and contents. It can be designed for the medical
sector and/or for the industrial sector, and involves all providers of
information, thus including the regulators.
4) Setting up a management system
5) Nuclear safety culture in research facilities. This module would be
designed for safety managers of research institutions housing an
accelerator, a research reactor or a radiochemistry / radiobiology
department.
6) Economics of safety culture
7) Nuclear safety in transport of radioactive materials
8) Compliance of contractors with safety systems
9) Others: specify.
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Contribution to harmonisation of safety
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TRASNUSAFE will contribute to harmonisation of safety
if
the result of the project is a set of training courses of high
quality
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clear learning outcomes
relevant contents,
adequate pedagogical supports,
trans-cultural,
proved efficient on a significant set of individuals,
include a control of acquired competences (ECVET)
and if
there is a form of recognition by the regulators (at least
several regulators).
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TRASNUSAFE, as part of a comprehensive and recognised
Vocational Education & Training
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ECVET as a tool
Needs a clear formulation of the learning outcomes
A quality assurance of the learning process (the training)
(EQAVET)
A control of the acquired competences adapted to this
particular type of training giving credit (points).
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