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PUC working group hears Canadian regulator on safety culture; survey finds trust the main barrier to non‑punitive sharing
Summary
At a California Public Utilities Commission working group, Canada Energy Regulator technical lead Dr. Claudine Bradley outlined a decade of CER work to promote safety culture while avoiding prescriptive regulation. A survey of 11 participants found low confidence that reporting would be treated non‑punitively; IOUs proposed a joint policy statement and a task force to draft a concept paper.
Carolina, the working‑group facilitator convened by the California Public Utilities Commission, opened the session by saying the group would focus on mechanisms to support open information flow and the confidentiality and non‑punitive mechanisms that other high‑reliability sectors use.
Dr. Claudine Bradley, technical lead for human and organizational factors at the Canada Energy Regulator, described the CER’s stepped approach to safety culture: issuing a public "statement on safety culture," publishing indicators and learning tools, offering e‑learning modules and workshops, and experimenting with non‑evaluative dialogues between regulator and companies. "We did not want it to turn into a compliance activity,"…
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