Safety culture in the Spanish nuclear power plants through the prism of high reliability organization, resilience and conflicting objectives theories
Badia, Eulàlia (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (Espanya))
Navajas Adán, Joaquín (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (Espanya))
Losilla Vidal, Josep Maria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psicobiologia i de Metodologia de Ciències de la Salut)

Data:	2021
Resum:	Safety culture is the result of values, attitudes, and perceptions of the members of an organization that prioritize safety over competing goals. Previous research has shown the impact that organizational aspects can have in safety performance. Under the prism of the theoretical approaches from the high reliability organizations theory (HROT), resilience engineering (RE), and conflicting objectives perspective, this study was aimed at describing the overall main safety culture traits of the Spanish nuclear power plants, as well as identifying particularities associated with subcultures. For this purpose, a statistical analysis of safety culture surveys and behavioral anchored rating scales (BARS), handed over to all the operating Spanish nuclear power plants, was carried out. Results reveal that safety is a recognized value that prevails over production, there is a high degree of standardization, power plants are better prepared to organize plans and strategies than to adapt and cope with the needs of a crisis, and there is a critical and fragmented perception about the processes of resources allocation. Findings also identify that sociodemographic aspects, such as work location and contractual relationship, seem to be shaping differentiated visions. Several safety implications linked to the results are discussed.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Safety culture ; Organizational culture ; Organizational subcultures ; Nuclear industry ; High reliability organizations ; Resilience engineering ; Conflicting objective perspective
Publicat a:	Applied sciences (Basel), Vol. 11, núm. 1 (2021) , p. 345, ISSN 2076-3417

DOI: 10.3390/app11010345

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