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On February 22, 2002, the 32nd Safety Caravan was held at Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development Co., Ltd., which is located in Oarai-machi, Higashi Ibaraki-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture.
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About 40 staff of the Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development Co., Ltd. and staff of cooperating companies attended the safety presentation.
The president of Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development opened the safety presentation with the following greetings: "At our company we have compiled a safety ethos, making safety the foundation of our corporate management. We also take advantage of every opportunity to talk about safety at the company, based upon the precept of having the local community accept us. I think that today's safety caravan represents a great opportunity for us to look back and examine our daily safety activities. Through this opportunity, I hope that we further deepen our consciousness regarding safety."
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Safety Presentation
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Following introductions of NSnet activities, a lecturer from Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. gave a talk titled "Efforts toward safe and stable operations at the Sendai Nuclear Power Station." The lecture included the company's efforts, such as those listed below, regarding safe and stable operations, touching on concrete examples of personal experiences. |
- From the perspective of managing operations, it is necessary for the three companies of the power company, plant manufacturer and cooperating company to team up, create a barrier-free work environment and share common values and ethos in order to attain safe and stable operations. Also required are an open workplace and strong leadership on the part of management.
- It is necessary to have an organization with the consciousness that safety is a top priority in all facets of operations, and one that will carry out safety activities in a timely fashion, always looking to improve work activities.
- The establishment of a system that calls forth the total power of the organization (technology, people, information, decision-making ability, etc.) is crucial.
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Discussion session
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At the discussion session, NSnet introduced positive peer review examples, as well as its exclusive website for members, and others.
Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development then introduced the status of its activities to create a safety culture.
Among the main opinions to come out of the subsequent discussion included the following:
- I think that nuclear power safety is not just a problem for one company alone. Considering the case of the JCO accident, that accident in one specific company affected the entire industry. Thinking about it this way, I feel that it is necessary to expand the peer review process to peripheral areas, such as transport, not simply limiting it to nuclear power facilities. Preventative measures inside nuclear power plant facilities have been enriched, but if something happens outside the facilities such as during the transport process, the problem will extend to the entire nuclear power industry. I think therefore that it is absolutely necessary to treat the entire nuclear power industry as a system, paying attention to the even the most detailed areas.
- Various lecturers have defined safety culture in different ways, and therefore I think that it would be possible to extract those definitions and make an anthology of terms that even the inexperienced can understand. Such definitions could then be listed on the homepage, and used by everyone as shared information.
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