Self-Assessments of Safety Culture in Malaysian Nuclear Agency using Safety Culture Perception Questionnaire for License Holder (SCPQ-LH)

The IAEA defines a strong safety culture as the assembly of characteristics and attitudes in organizations and individuals which establishes that, as an overriding priority, protection and safety issues receive the attention warranted by their significance. SCPQ-LH is one of the data collection methods, developed by IAEA to assess safety culture in a facility. This study is conducted to understand the safety culture in Nuclear Malaysia using SCPQ-LH via sharepoint Nuclear Malaysia using descriptive analysis. 70 % of the staff works in Nuclear Malaysia had responded to the SCPQ-LH. The results showed that 74 % of the respondents agree that Nuclear Malaysia has a good safety culture. Further studies should be performed to study the correlation between safety culture, various division, year of services, and also to include other four data collection method developed by IAEA to support the finding. (author)