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RockbourneSafety & Risk Management Solutions

Approaches to Demonstrating a Capable OrganisationJenny Richards

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Our View of A Capable Organisation

• Can demonstrate it is a competent and responsible duty holder/operator

• Goes further than just legal compliance• Has the right approach and behaviours• Shows the right leadership, direction and control of the

business• Is much more than written systems and procedures

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Why it matters

• Lessons from events• Experience from other industries• Changing market place• New entrants to the UK market, including non-UK

companies• Company structures more complex e.g. PBOs• Central to a successful business

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Texas City

‘A corporate safety culture that may have tolerated serious and longstanding deviations from good safety practice.’

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Texas City

‘Process safety leadership appeared to have suffered as a result of high turnover of refinery plant managers.’

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Texas City

‘A substantial gulf appears to have existed, however, between the actual performance of BP’s process safety management systems and the company’s perception of that performance.’

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Some of the main aspects

Learning Organisation

Control ofChange

Strategic Resource

Plan

Use ofContractResource

(IC)

Competences

LeadershipDirection &

Control

OrganisationalStructure

Capable Organisation

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Threats to capability

• Systems and structures are complex• No strategic view of out-sourcing• Changes in the organisational structure• Changes in the direction and control needs• Poor succession planning

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Regulatory Expectations

• SAPs and REPs• NII Technical Assessment Guide on Organisational

Nuclear Baselines• NII require a Management Prospectus for Nuclear

Licensed Sites• EA have RSA Schedule 1 Condition 6 on Management

Arrangements

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Nuclear Baselines

• Role

To demonstrate the right resource and capability for nuclear safety

• Scope

Any role that has the potential to impact on nuclear safety

• Use

Strategic resource management and a baseline for change

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Management Prospectus

• Role

A ‘safety case’ for safety management demonstrating a licensable organisation

• Scope

How the organisation directs and controls nuclear activities - Governance

• Use

A strategic management tool

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Some New Challenges

• Arrangements that cover the full scope – not just written systems

• The role of the Board• Forward looking to plan for capability needs• Translating leadership, direction and control into action• Evidence to give confidence to themselves and to

regulators