Culture policies

In December 2012, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement published a Draft Safety Culture Policy Statement (BSEE, 2012) with a request for public comments. This proposed policy is based on a Culture Policy Statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

The BSEE has reviewed the NRC s safety culture policy and believes it provides a strong foundation for a similar approach for oil and gas operations on the OCS... A draft NRC dcxiument is located at www.stbO . com/downloads/NRC-Culture-Draft.pdf. 

Cultural Policy Collective. (2004). Beyond social inclusion Towards cultural democracy. Edinburgh Cultural Policy Collective... 

The October Revolution was Mayakovsky s greatest inspiration and subject, and the consequent mutations of the new state s agricultural, economic, and cultural policies could not fail to galvanize his imagination. The Order... 

Cultural policy and literary institutions in pre-Revolutionary Russia... 

Thus Stalinist cultural policy had cleared the field of the old literature and had created a new literature supported by a powerful, institutionalized system. 

It is usually recognized that the Thaw meant a real change in Soviet cultural life but, in reality, only superficial changes were made in these years, never affecting the essence of Stalinist cultural policies. Even the easing of censorship that immediately followed Stalin s death rapidly dissolved. 

Characteristic of Khrushchev s era was the ambivalence of the Party s cultural policy on the one hand, Khrushchev needed the support of the intelligentsia for his anti-Stalinist policies on the other, he did not trust them and often came into conflict with them. When wooing the co-operation of the intellectual community, Khrushchev reduced the pressure of censorship and permitted the publication of many innovative literary and scientific works nevertheless, he on several occasions attacked artists (such as Ernst Neizvestnyi and Boris Zhutovsky) and writers (Andrei Voznesensky, Evgenii Evtushenko, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and others). 

The new international dimension of the problem, the fear of losing a national identity so dearly won during wartime, and the need to face Western society - all these considerations made Soviet cultural policy more prudent in subsequent years, preferring prevention over punishment. Undesirable writers were invited to choose emigration of their own free will (Brodsky, in 1972) or else they were deprived of Soviet citizenship, thus providing the same result (Solzhenitsyn, in 1974). 

Based on a recommendation from the National Commission report on the Deepwater Horizon accident (discussed in the next chapter) BSEE prepared their White Paper based on the safety culture policy developed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. BSEE defines the word culture as ... 

The organization of work— imbedded culture, policies, environment, methods, people interrelationships, quality of supervision... 

The final safely culture policy statement issued by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in January 2012 provides the following traits of a positive safety culture ... 

The Safety Culture Policy Statement. (2012, November). US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Retrieved from http //Lusa.gov/ZuAPCN. 

Organizational characteristics that might affect training, including organizational culture, policies and procedures, situational influences, and pre-practice conditions... 

Council of Europe (2010) Compendium Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe www. culturalpolicies.net. Accessed 06 May 2014, Chapter on Denmark. 

Inclusion is a process by which schools, local authorities and others develop their cultures, policies and praaices to include all pupils. 

It should be noted that many of these areas are promising opportunities for increased harmonization, while others are not. Some areas that lack harmonization are likely to remain that way for many years because of large national differences in geography, culture, policy and regulatory precedents, etc. Other areas that lack harmonization are areas that are likely to remain flexible because of market forces. A range of options will be needed in the future for various applications for NPPs in different countries. Harmonization should not conflict with this need for flexibility. These aspects should be taken into account in aiming at further harmonization. 

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