This document is a guide on leadership and management for safety. It sets out the responsibilities of management in ensuring safety and outlines the requirements for risk management.
Guide YVL A.3, Leadership and management for safety, is published by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK). This explanatory memorandum, reference 92/0002/2016 and dated March 15, 2019, describes the starting points and justifications for the Guide's requirements on management responsibilities and risk management.
The Guide addresses leadership, safety culture and the management system, including planning, implementation, maintenance, assessment and improvement. It applies to an organisation applying for a construction or operating licence for a nuclear facility, or one constructing or operating a nuclear facility, and its requirements also apply to the plant supplier and all safety-significant suppliers to the appropriate extent.
It defines general safety and quality management requirements affecting leadership, safety culture and the management system, and their maintenance, assessment and improvement.
The requirements apply to an organisation applying for a construction or operating licence for a nuclear facility, or one constructing or operating a nuclear facility, and to the plant supplier and all safety-significant suppliers to the appropriate extent.
It applies at all stages in the life cycle of a nuclear facility: siting, design, construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning, and final disposal of nuclear waste.
The previous name was "Management system for a nuclear facility"; it was changed to "Leadership and management for safety."