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Year:
2006

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Volume:
11

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Issue:
3
Safety Science Monitor
Introduction

The term safety culture apparently was first mentioned after the Post Accident Review Meeting following the Chernobyl accident in 1986 (International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group, 1986). In their updating of INSAG-1 the INSAG-7 (1992, pp. 23-24) asserts : “The accident can be said to have flowed from deficient safety culture, not only at the Chernobyl plant, but throughout the Soviet design, operating and regulatory organizations for nuclear power that existed at the time. Safety culture […] requires total dedication, which at nuclear power plants is primarily generated by attitudes of managers of organizations involved in their development and operation”.

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Author

Frank Guldenmund

Safety Science Group, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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