Implementation of safety management systems in nuclear power plants in Germany and results of a German research project

摘要

The absence of any requirements for safety management in German nuclear regulations resulted in the need to develop regulatory guidance in which the requirements for safety management systems are systematically compiled according to a national standard. In June 2004, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation and Nuclear Safety published a guidance document "Fundamentals of Safety Management Systems in Nuclear Power Plants". Furthermore, the licensing and regulatory authorities of some German Federal States made recommendations for the evaluation of a utility's safety culture self-assessment system. At first both strategies of nuclear safety management of power plants in Germany are compared. Finally a simple method will be presented called "Event-based Safety Culture Assessment". This method is based on the assumption that root cause analyses of incidents or near miss failures in nuclear power plants give indications of deficiencies in safety culture. An example of the application of this method will be shown.