Full Title: The Nuclear Sector’s Response to COVID-19: Lessons Learnt from a Human and Organisational Factors Perspective
Author(s): Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
Publisher(s): OECD
Publication Date: June 13, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis of exceptional impact and duration that tested the ability of organizations and people to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and to learn and improve in real time.
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) stressed since the beginning of the pandemic the importance of learning from this historical event. When the world was in the middle of the crisis, it was clear that its ultimate impact on the nuclear sector would only be visible some years later, when the disease was brought under control.
These considerations prompted the NEA to launch a new activity under the Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) that aims to study the resilience of the nuclear sector during the pandemic and to learn from the experience of other sectors. The past or planned initiatives undertaken by the industry and the regulators were considered key to better understand the resilience of the nuclear industry during the pandemic and to be prepared for future crises.
The working group plans to compile and put into perspective the experiences made during the pandemic and to identify the lessons learnt and guidance for the future. This will involve discussing how organizations coped with the challenges of COVID-19 and the longterm implications.