A Company-wide Activity to Grow Safety Culture in A Maintenance Department of Nuclear Power Plant
This study aims to conduct a field survey to collect specific instances of learning activity that would help develop a safety culture in a maintenance department of nuclear power plant, with activity theory as a theoretical base, and to derive a conceptual model that portrays these instances as part of comprehensive organizational activities. First, the field survey found instances where an accident that occurred a few years ago provided momentum;a company-wide activity is being implemented in order to fulfill the requests of field workers so that their requests for improvements are positively honored and budgets are allocated to measures designed to accommodate these requests. This paper calls this company-wide activity an activity to materialize the requests for improvements in the workplace and considers it to be a typical instance of learning activity. Second, the field survey found that, in the workplace under discussion, a daily meeting was held in a unique way and a study session was conducted frequently and regularly. Last, we came up with a conceptual model for the entire aspect of organizational activities in which we could position the above instances as well as the results of our past field surveys. This model conceptualizes organizational activities from the two aspects of learning activity (primary learning activity) and management activity and characterizes an activity that would transform the existing organizational activities into ones that could not be even predicted as secondary learning activity. An activity to materialize the requests for improvements in the workplace was taken as falling under the category of secondary learning activity.
Safety Culture Activity Theory Learning Activity Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance
Fukui Hirokazu Sugiman Toshio
Institute of Social Research, Institute of Nuclear Safety System, Inc., Mihama, Fukui 919-1205, Japa School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
国际会议
ISSNP2008、CSEPC、ISOFIC2008(第二届21世纪和谐核电系统国际会议、第四届电厂控制中认知系统工程方法国际会议暨第三届未来核电厂仪表与控制国际会议)
哈尔滨
英文
590-596
2008-09-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）