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2. David Forsythe (Head of Nuclear Safety, Decommissioning)
Managing Risk, Managing Uncertainty and World Class Governance of Compromise ( or…Re-defining Nuclear Safety in hazard and Risk reduction)
November 2015
David Forsythe (Head of Nuclear Safety, Decommissioning)

3. Structure and Governance for the application of Common Sense
(with help from boats, planes, and giraffes)

4. I’m going to talk about…….
Decommissioning at Sellafield
Framing the problem.
Management processes and Accountabilities in a Decommissioning Context.
Risk Based Nuclear Safety
Issues, problems, ideas and tactics.
People and Assurance

5. Decommissioning Context
Forget about labels, numbers, tags and definitions.
Site works in 2 models: Building stuff and knocking stuff down when there are no nuclear safety issues
Operating stuff with a nuclear safety hazard.
Transitions work ok most of the time but not so good for high hazard legacy facilities. We have to mix the two.
Decommissioning Context

6. Driven by Processes?