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personnel at all levels of the organisation is committed to high quality. The bases of quality policy for STUK’s regulatory activities are parts of good regulatory culture and independence of the regulatory body. (Guide STUK 3.1). In addition, the safety significance of the handled issues shall be recognised and the emphasis on ensuring safety shall be given in STUK’s regulatory activities. Thus the development and maintaining of proper safety culture is being promoted in all use of nuclear energy and radiation practice. STUK ensures understanding of the key aspects of safety culture by the following methods: 1) Internal training 2) Documented basis for the decisions 3) Communicating the management views and information on important decisions in staff briefings STUK contributes to the licensees and partners understanding of the importance of safety culture, STUK is a service minded organisation. Good service entails STUK promptly fulfilling its obligations and engagements as well as paying attention to the needs of its customers and stakeholders. QID SQID QTYPE References True Subsidiary Question Next Question 5 5.2 Text Safety Standards Series No. GS-R- 3;para 2.5 Describe any formal means employed by the regulatory body to support individuals and teams within its organisation in carrying out their tasks safely and successfully. SQID 5.3 Responsibilities and authorities of STUK management and staff are documented and described in Quality Manuals (STUK Quality Manual, Nuclear Safety: Guides YTV 2.1.1. – YTV 2.5 and Radiation Safety (Guides SKV 2.1 – 2.6). All the guides (a total of about 300) in the Quality Manuals are written to help the individuals and teams to carry out their tasks safely and successfully. STUK also strongly supports further training and education and urges its workers to enhance their capabilities through continuous training (Guide STUK 1.1). Further, in all regular meetings within STUK the individuals may bring forth all kind of concerns they have encountered in their work and to discuss these with other team members. STUK’s management system requires that annual discussions between every employee and his/her head are carried out. It is also the duty of every boss to help any worker any day in any problem (Guide STUK 2.3). The scope of the discussions include e.g. evaluation of the results of the last year, discussions on the plans of the next year, training needs, evaluation of the working environment, and possible issues preventing successful activities. During inspections and in other communication representatives of STUK behave in a manner that promotes development of good safety culture in the use of radiation and nuclear energy (Guide STUK 1.1). STUK has established the following framework for managing its regulatory work (plan-
do-check-act): 1. Plan; setting and updating objectives. Planning together with staff has two time scales, one for strategic planning which is done (cycles for few years 2012- 2016) and the other for annual action planning. 2. Do; conduct of work. The work is guided, a comprehensive set of standing orders, guides, check lists, work processes and guidance for managing processes and procedures that give instructions for all operations, including both administration and professional work 3. Check; Assessment and Measurement. Operations and performance are assessed both internally and externally. 4. Act; Improvement and Development. A general policy: to strive for continuous improvement of work processes and regulatory effectiveness. Implementation of improvements are based on the results of audits, external assessments, selfassessments and evaluations, but development can be started also based on other initiatives. Information received from operating and regulatory experience is also taken into account QID SQID QTYPE References True Subsidiary Question Next Question 5 5.3 Text Safety Standards Series No. GS-R- 3;para 2.5 Describe measures taken by the regulatory body for reinforcing a learning and questioning attitude at all organizational levels. SQID 5.4 One of the basic values which guide all operations at STUK is courage (Guide STUK 1.1). This means that STUK encourages the attitude that any identified problems and personal views are rigorously brought up. Responsibility for decisions is acknowledged, and errors are corrected. STUK’s management system is based on a continuous improvement principle. This involves questioning and learning attitude. The employees are committed to this behaviour by means of annual discussions, regular teem meetings, self-assessments etc. Individuals are engaged in drafting and commenting internal guidance for regulatory activities and managers encourage them to bring up ideas for improvement. Further, the employees are responsible for reporting any corrective measures and receiving feedback and delivering this to the quality personnel and registers of feedback and deviation (Guide STUK 1.1, Guide YTV 1.1). QID SQID QTYPE References True Subsidiary Question Next Question 5 5.4 Text Safety Standards Series No. GS-R- 3;para 2.5 Describe how the regulatory body identifies and implements measures for continually developing and improving the safety culture within its organisation. PQ 6 The continuous improvement of the management system of STUK supports the safety culture and the successful performance of the regulatory activities. STUK’s strategic and annual planning are the corner stones for implementation of important regulatory activities. Also safety culture aspects are taken into account in the strategy and annual plans. The implementation of annual plans is regularly evaluated.
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