Enhancing Safety in Nuclear Power Plant by Identifying Successful Performance

IAEA reports that the reasoning why learning is such an essential aspect to safety- critical organizations is because it is assumed to enable the organization to respond effectively to environmental challenges and turbulence, and to avoid the occurrence of adverse events. And many national and international regulatory bodies make guidelines and requirements that enforce the implementation of lesson from operating experience. We found that success is a complex and multidimensional concept that can take many forms. It is observed that success can have properties such as time and situation-dependence and that it relates to the expectations of multiple stakeholders. Based on this framework, we are carrying out a case studies in nuclear power plants in Korea. It can elaborate the concept of success in nuclear industry and how it can be utilized for learning purposes. We hope that commonly shared "success story" which identified and captured, improve team-spirit and work motivation in future NPP tasks. Similarly, developing these activities is important in order to avoid unwanted sideproducts of learning from success and to maintain good overall culture in the organization.