Enhancing system resilience and organisational safety in the nuclear industry through joined-up regulation, policy and procedures

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The safety of nuclear power is of paramount importance, yet all industries and organisations experience some degree of accidents and unwanted events. Managing the complexity of nuclear power presents unique challenges for safety and resilience. Defence in depth, risk management, active monitoring and robust passive safety systems are combined with behavioural and organisational approaches to develop strong nuclear safety cultures. If designed in isolation from one another these proactive measures can however combine to form tightly coupled networks of incentives, corrective actions, procedures, safety-systems, causes and effects that ultimately increase the fragility of the overall system.This project will seek to enhance system resilience and organisational safety by developing novel approaches to joined-up regulation, policy and procedures. It will utilise technological innovations and behavioural insights to identify areas of vulnerability, key leverage points and actions to improve safety and reduce the risk of high-impact low-probability events.