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Step 1
Our Values and Professionalism
This week, you will learn about the values and behaviours that underpin our business. Our values are embedded in our ways of working, how we lead and manage people, deliver our work and conduct our business. Combined with high standards of professionalism, we are committed to ensuring nuclear safety, security and the environment are at the forefront of everything we do.
Step 2
Our values & behaviours
Our values underpin everything we do. So far in your induction, you will have seen how they guide and steer us in our operations, how they are the cornerstone of our code of conduct, drive our strong security culture, enable us to uphold our responsibility to the environment and support our commitment to high standards of health and both conventional, and nuclear safety.
Behaviours are how we demonstrate our core values in our daily work. It’s what others see and hear from us and is what our personal, team and organisational reputation is founded on.
As you move through your induction and beyond, you will see how our values and behaviours are embedded in how we carry out our work and the ways in which we work together.
Step 3
Leadership Framework
Our Leadership Framework sets out what it means to be a leader in UKNNL, establishing what good leadership looks and feels like in our organisation.
The framework sets out five performance behaviours with Leadership Integrity at its core. It aims to guide the development of all leaders at UKNNL, from those who lead through influence, to first line supervisors and members of the executive team. For anyone who aspires to become a leader, it can help guide your future development.
View Leadership Framework PDF
Step 4
Nuclear Professionalism
Nuclear Professionalism is an industry-wide concept that recognises the importance of our work in the sector. Our professionalism is key to ensuring the ongoing and increased acceptance of nuclear as a safe, sustainable energy source that can help meet the UK’s energy needs. The Nuclear Institute, the only professional membership body dedicated to the nuclear industry, sets the standard for Nuclear Professionalism under the Nuclear Delta®. The Nuclear Delta® sets the competencies and behaviours required by our industry, providing independent recognition for those in the nuclear sector.
At its core, Nuclear Professionalism is about making a personal and professional commitment to upholding industry standards and behaviours that maintain our strong safety and security culture.
You can learn more about Nuclear Professionalism by visitng the links below. At the end of the NUSTART induction, you will completed a Nuclear Professionalism e-learning module, giving you the opportunity to reflect on all you have learned and how you contribute to our culture.
Visit Nuclear Institute
Visit Nuclear Delta®
Visit SharePoint
Step 5
Nuclear Professionalism activities
Visit the Nuclear Institute website to read more about Nuclear Professionalism.
Learn about the competencies and behaviours set out under the Nuclear Delta®.
Visit our SharePoint site to learn about Nuclear Professionalism at UKNNL.
Step 6
Human performance
You have already learned about some of the systems and processes that we use to keep everyone safe and secure, such as:
- Behavioural Based Observations (BBOs) that help uphold a common standard of behaviour through discussion and learning.
- OSHENS that enables us to record and learn from events, taking action to prevent them from happening again.
- UKNNL's Information Management System which holds all the policies, procedures and forms we use to conduct our business, supporting compliance and consistency.
Human performance is about how you, as an individual, can mitigate risk and identify any potential error traps to keep yourself, your colleagues, our workplace, environment, and community safe. These techniques are central to Nuclear Professionalism and our commitment to health, safety, security, environment and quality.
Complete NS2467 Introduction to Human Performance e-learning now.
UKNNL E-Learning
Visit Human Performance Tools
Step 7
Human performance activities
To do
Visit the Environment, Health, Safety & Quality (EHS&Q) page on Share Point to learn how they support our business.
Read the latest EHS&Q events and themes of the month.
Bookmark the Human Performance Tools page on SharePoint so you can access the tools as you need them.
Step 8
Nuclear Institute
UKNNL supports employees to join the Nuclear Institute (NI) by funding Associate Membership through our corporate membership scheme. Applications are open once a year, generally from December to January. The NI offers a range of memberships suitable for everyone, whether you are in a technical, scientific, operational role or support function.
By joining the NI, you can access activities and events that can help your development, along with courses, training, speaking competitions and special interest groups. For those who have significant experience as a leader in the nuclear sector, there’s also the opportunity to become a Fellow.
Visit Nuclear Institute Membership page
Read Register Membership Instructions PDF
Step 9
Nuclear Institute activities
To do
Explore the levels of membership at the NI.
If you are within the application period, you can submit your wish to join the NI via Business World, using the instructions in step 9. If not, watch out for an email from the L&D team around December - January.
Step 10
Growing Awareness in Nuclear (GAIN)
As part of your induction, you will be invited to attend a one day Growing Awareness in Nuclear workshop to introduce you to the nuclear industry. The workshop is open to all but may be particularly useful for those new to the industry.
The workshop will:
- Outline the history of the industry, looking at the origins of nuclear and its evolution to its role in the UK energy mix.
- Provide an overview of the principles of nuclear fission.
- Introduce you to the nuclear fuel cycle.
- Outline the safety and security principles critical to our industry and the governance in place to protect us.
If you would like to attend a GAIN workshop, contact nnl.landd@uknnl.com
Step 11
Glossary
SCITEC
This is an abbreviation of our values – Safety, Collaboration, Integrity, Taking Responsibility, Enthusiasm and Customer.
Nuclear Professionalism
An industry wide concept that recognises the importance of our work in the sector.
Nuclear Delta
Sets out the competencies and standards required of a nuclear professional.
Nuclear Institute
The nuclear sector's professional membership body.
Human Performance
Is about minimising the frequency and severity of events where human error is a factor. By employing human performance tools you can mitigate risk and error traps.
Environment, Occupational Health, Safety, Security and Quality (EHS&Q)
The Environment, Occupational Health, Safety, Security and Quality team who provide expert advice to the business and drive occupational health and safety improvements.
Behavioural Based Observation (BBO’s)
Observation techniques whereby colleagues discuss behaviours and give constructive feedback to reinforce positive behaviours and discourage negative behaviours.
OSHENS
Our event reporting system, pronounced OH-SHENS. To ‘raise an OSHENS’ is to log an event on the system.
Information Management System (IMS)
The information management system is similar to an electronic library, and it is the way we manage interrelated parts of our business to achieve our objectives. You might hear the phrase ‘check the management system’ 'look on IMS' or 'Check Q-Pulse' these are all used interchangeably and refer to checking what information is recorded under our IMS arrangements.
Q-Pulse
Q-Pulse is the is the electronic system or tool that provides a home for all of our information management arrangements.
Growing Awareness in Nuclear (GAIN)
A training course to help introduce you to nuclear.
Step 12
End of week checklist and further activities
This week, we asked you to:
Learn about the leadership framework
Complete NN0588 Nuclear Professionalism e-learning
Visit the Nuclear Institute site and learn more about Nuclear Professionalism and the Nuclear Delta®
Complete NS2467 Introduction to Human Performance e-learning
Learn about the work the EHS&Q do to help keep us safe
Explore the different types of membership to the NI and register your membership if you are in the application period
Contact the learning and development team to book a space on GAIN training if you would like to attend
To continue your progress, consider the following:
- Ask your buddy what Human Performance tools your team uses and what learning they have taken from them.
- Set yourself a SMART objective to develop a competency of your choosing from the Nuclear Delta®
You’ve completed 11/11 steps, nice work!
And that's week 5 wrapped up. Next week you'll learn how our values shape our culture and drive our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion work.
Finish week 5