Assessing safety culture using RADAR matrix

Abstract

Santa María de Garoña nuclear power plant,

in collaboration with Burgos University, has

proceeded to conduct a pilot project aimed at

seeing the possibilities for the RADAR

(Results, Approach, Deployment, Assessment

and Review) logic of EFQM model, as a tool

for self evaluation of Safety Culture in a

nuclear power plant. In the work it has

sought evidences of Safety Culture implanted

in the plant, and identify strengths and areas

for improvement regarding this Culture. The

score obtained by analyzing these strengths

and areas for improvement has served to

prioritize actions implemented. The nuclear

power plant has been submitted voluntarily

to the mission SCART (Safety Culture

Assessment Review Team), an international

review being done for the first time in the

world at a plant in operation and the team of

experts led by International Agency of

Atomic Energy (IAEA) has identified this

project as a good practice, an innovative

process implemented in the plant, that must

be transmitted to other plants.