January 27, 2009 

MEMORANDUM TO: Stewart Magruder, Deputy Office Director 

 Chair, Safety Culture Policy Statement Steering Committee 

 Office of Enforcement 

FROM: Isabelle Schoenfeld, Senior Program Manager 

 Chair, Safety Culture Policy Statement Task Group 

 Office of Enforcement /RA/ 

SUBJECT: PUBLIC WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENT OF A POLICY STATEMENT 

ON SAFETY CULTURE AND SECURITY CULTURE 

DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm 

 (Rescheduled from January 28, 2009) 

LOCATION: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

 Commissioners’ Hearing Room 

 One White Flint North 

11555 Rockville Pike 

Rockville, MD 20852 

PURPOSE: In Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM)-COMGBJ-08-0001, “A 

Commission Policy Statement on Safety Culture,” dated February 25, 

2008, the Commission directed staff “to expand the Commission’s policy 

of safety culture to address the unique aspects of security and to ensure 

the resulting policy is applicable to all licensees and certificate holders.” 

As part of that effort, the staff is conducting this workshop to hear views 

from a range of licensees, certificate holders, and other stakeholders on 

key topics related to the Commission direction, for staff consideration in 

the development of the Policy Statement(s). 

Panel members representing various stakeholder groups will be providing 

input on topics. There will be opportunities for members of the public to 

provide input to the staff, and a moderator will be facilitating the 

discussions. See the enclosed agenda for additional information. A list of 

key topics and related questions that will serve as the basis for the 

discussions will be provided closer to the meeting date at the website 

listed below. 

CATEGORY This meeting is a Category 3 meeting. The public is invited to participate 

in this meeting by providing comments and asking questions throughout 

the meeting. 

The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation 

to participate in this meeting (e.g., sign language), or need this meeting 

notice or other information from the meeting in another format (e.g., 

Braille, large print), please notify one of the NRC's meeting contacts listed 

below by January 28, 2009, so that arrangements can be made.
 

Teleconferencing: Interested members of the public unable to travel to 

the NRC Headquarters may participate by telephone via a toll-free 

teleconference. For details, please call one of the NRC meeting contacts 

listed below or the toll-free number, 1-800-368-5642, and ask the 

operator for a connection to one of the meeting contacts. Those 

interested in participating in this meeting by teleconferencing should call 

or email one of the contacts as soon as possible, but by no later than 

January 30, 2009. 

Webinar: For those unable to travel to NRC Headquarters, this meeting 

will be broadcasted as a Webinar over the Internet. Additional 

information on how to access the Webinar will be provided closer to the 

meeting date on the webpage mentioned below. Those interested in 

participating by Webinar should call or email one of the contacts as soon 

as possible, but no later than January 30, 2009.

NOTE: Additional workshop materials, such as background information, 

discussion topics and key questions, and presentation materials, will also 

be posted at: http://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/regulatory/enforcement/safety-culture.html#meetings. Meeting 

participants are encouraged to check this page periodically before the 

workshop date to access all the meeting materials. 

REGISTRATION: All meeting attendees — including attendees participating through either 

the Webinar or the teleconference bridge — should pre-register with one 

of the contacts listed below as soon as possible, but by no later than 

January 30, 2009. (If you had pre-registered for the January 28th

Workshop, you do not need to register again, unless there are 

changes from your original registration). 

PARTICIPANTS: Participants from the NRC include the following: 

 Chairman Dale E. Klein 

 Martin Virgilio, Office of the Executive Director for Operations (OEDO) 

 Cynthia Carpenter, Office of Enforcement (OE) 

 Stewart Magruder, OE 

 Isabelle Schoenfeld, OE 

 Safety Culture Policy Statement Steering Committee members 

 Safety Culture Policy Statement Task Group members 

 

CONTACTS: June Cai 

301-415-5192 

june.cai@nrc.gov 

ENCLOSURE: Workshop Agenda 

cc w/encl: see next page 
 

Public Workshop on the Development of Safety Culture Policy Statement(s) 

AGENDA 

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 

8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration/Open House One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room 

8:30 am - 10:00 am

 

Session 1 — Opening and Introduction 

NRC Welcome & Introduction 

Chairman Dale E. Klein’s Address to the 

Workshop 

Overview of NRC Safety Culture Activities 

Description of Development of Safety Culture 

Policy Statement(s) 

Definitions and Concepts 

One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room/Webinar

Martin Virgilio, Deputy 

Executive Director for 

Materials, Waste, Research, 

State, Tribal, and Compliance 

Programs 

Dale E. Klein, Chairman 

Cynthia Carpenter, Director, 

Office of Enforcement 

Stewart Magruder, Deputy 

Director, Office of 

Enforcement 

Isabelle Schoenfeld, Chair, 

Safety Culture Policy 

Statement Task Group, Office 

of Enforcement 

10:00 am - 10:15 am

 

Ground Rules One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room/Webinar 

L. Rakovan, Workshop 

Facilitator, Office of the 

Executive Director for 

Operations 

10:15 am - 10:30 am

 

Break 
 

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

 

Session 2 — Safety Culture/Security 

Culture 

Should the NRC combine its 

expectations for safety culture and 

security culture or should the NRC keep 

its expectations separate? 

Initial Remarks by Panel Members 

Open Floor Question and Comment 

One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room/Webinar

Panel Members 

All Participants 

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 

—————— 

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 

Lunch 

 ——————————————————— 

Open House Poster Session 

 ———————

One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ hearing 

Room 

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 

 

—————— 

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 

Session 3A: Materials Area Considerations 

How should NRC increase attention to 

safety culture and security culture in the 

materials area? 

Initial Remarks by Panel Members 

Open Floor Question and Comment 

 ——————————————————— 

Session 3B: Reactors Area Considerations 

Does safety culture as applied to 

reactors need to be strengthened? 

Initial Remarks by Panel Members 

Open Floor Question and Comment 

One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room/Webinar

Panel Members 

All Participants 

 ——————— 

One White Flint North, 

18th Floor Conference 

Room/Teleconference 

Panel Members 

All Participants 

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

 

Break 
 

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm

 

Summary and Wrap Up 

Summary of Sessions 3A and 3B 

Questions About Policy Development Process 

Next Steps 

Other Opportunities for Interaction 

Workshop Accomplishments 

One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room/Webinar

NRC Staff 

All Participants 

S. Magruder & 

I. Schoenfeld 

L. Rakovan 

4:30 pm - 5:30pm 

 

Open House Poster Session One White Flint North 

Commissioners’ Hearing 

Room