Cultural Assessments

EXCEL recognizes the need for expertise, experience, and training for Nuclear Safety Culture Assessments. EXCEL applies the Nuclear Safety Culture traits of NRC NUREG-2165 and INPO 12-012, and the principles of High Reliability Organizations. EXCEL emphasizes small group interviews that allow station personnel to freely describe their work and incidents. Then, using systematic and transparent qualitative analysis, EXCEL identifies common themes and patterns to develop cultural insights. Most of all, EXCEL understands that cultural changes, if needed, cannot occur dramatically, and so EXCEL will prioritize the identification of actionable items that can produce noticeable, positive changes.

EXCEL offers training and services for the basic elements of three Nuclear Safety Culture Service Options. These include:

• Strengthening and improving the effectiveness of stations or corporate Nuclear Safety Culture Monitoring Panels and refresher training for station senior leadership teams in Nuclear Safety Culture
• Facilitated Nuclear Safety Culture Analysis that provides clients with station personnel developed insights to focus on improving specific station cultural challenges
• Full Nuclear Safety Culture Assessment that gathers information from surveys, interviews, document reviews, and other data that is qualitatively analyzed and provided to the station

EXCEL provides assistance to conduct Nuclear Safety Culture Assessments following the outline of industry-accepted benchmarkable methodologies.