Safety Presentation
Dr. Fudano
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 About 90 persons, including the employees of O-Arai engineering Center and cooperating companies, attended the Safety Presentation.
At the beginning of the Presentation, Mr. Yanagisawa, Director, O-Arai Engineering Center, gave an address and said "Since the fire incident last year at O-Arai, we have taken action for safety issues to go back to the starting point of safety, but some employees have changed and the action for safety are coming to be weakening partly. I want to use this safety presentation as an opportunity to reconfirm initiatives for safety by all employees."
After the address, Mr. Tanaka, General Manager of NSnet, introduced NSnet activities. He was followed by Dr. Fudano, Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, who gave a lecture entitled "A Safety Culture towards Building a Corporate Ethics Program and Shared Values", which included case studies concerning the ethics of engineers.
In the lecture he talked about the following points among others:
- Looking into what ethics are, if we look at gaining a balance of various values (e.g. safety, cost, technological novelty, etc.), it should be possible to resolve these ethical issues.
- An organization must build a corporate ethics program with the objective to have common values so that an ethical engineer does not have to whistle-blow.
- In building a corporate ethics system, risk management is extremely effective, and the costs needed to build an ethics program are small compared to losses from accidents, incidents and scandals related to corporate ethics. Generally looking at the large scale picture, building an ethics program is profitable. |
At the safety information exchange session, we asked Mr. Endo, Chief of Plant Operation Sec., Plant Operation Office, Tokai-II Power Station, The Japan Atomic Power Co. to give an in-depth explanation about the good practices cited by the peer review of the Tokai-II Power Station, The Japan Atomic Power Co, regarding "Usage and Evaluation of a Program for Human Error Prevention in Operations".
The main information and opinions exchanged were:
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One theme will take two months, but I was impressed that the step is carefully and regularly thought out by each person, one by one. This will be used as reference for future activities. Will it actually be reflected in measures at the worksite regarding equipment and the environment. |
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The previous items evaluated were the same as before, but it is being tied into actual improvement in equipment. |
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