Leadership and safety culture

There are many contributors to declines identified in some US plants. For example, the poor use of operating experience, unawareness of true current performance, inadequate training, lack of knowledge transfer, and inadequate performance by supplier personal. While these may seem like very different contributors there is a common thread of ineffective leadership or ineffective leadership teams. In contrast, strong leaders and leadership teams were identified as essential to sustaining high levels of plant safety and reliability. To address this issue INPO developed the leadership and team effectiveness principles which have been codified in INPO 15-005. This document is used by nuclear power stations in the United States to improve leadership and team effectiveness to support high levels of plant safety and reliability. (author)