People should be involved in safety. That could be achieved by promoting a healthy safety environment and helping all the workers to make safety culture as their own; however, they also need to know how to work during emergencies. Leaders play a key role in this process, so it is important to understand what is expected from the leadership under emergencies, and how to work on the different skills to be ready when they are needed.

Learning Objectives

1. Know the main theories of leadership and how they have evolved until today
2. Acquire the skills to maintain effective leadership in emergency situations
3. Apply those leadership skills for the development of teams or partners

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Evolution and types of leadership
3. Leadership for safety
4. Leadership for nuclear safety

Pre-requisites/participant background
No specific requirements are needed

Academic Team

1. Mercedes Alonso Ramos. Assistant lecturer in Nuclear Engineering. UNED
2. Fernando González González. Head of Safety Management and Leadership. Tecnatom
3. Javier Sanz Gonzalo. Professor of Nuclear Engineering. UNED.
4. David Abarca Ahijado. Safety Management and Leadership Consultant. Tecnatom.
5. Álvaro Pablo Muñoz Rodrigo. Nuclear training specialist.
6. Ángeles Sánchez-Elvira Paniagua. Senior lecturer. Digital Educational Technology
7. José Javier Hueso Romero. PhD in education. MOOC and e-learning specialist. External collaborating professor at UNED.

General Information

NOOC III belongs to the MOOCs Introducing safety culture and its application to the nuclear field. 25 h. The first edition of these MOOCs were part of the courses offered and funded within ANNETTE project, led by ENEN (European Nuclear Education Network), and funded by Euratom, a complementary research and training programme for nuclear research and training within Horizon 2020 European Research Projects.

This permanent edition of the course is an in-kind contribution of Tecnatom and UNED to the sustainability of the first edition. As being a permanent edition, no teaching assistance is foreseen.

These MOOCs are conceived as a first contact with the safety culture in all areas to continue, then, deepening in more specific concepts in the nuclear field. In order to establish a good safety culture and nuclear safety culture, aligned leadership is necessary. All these aspects will be worked in a dynamic, different and participative way, in which collaborative learning will be a key aspect. The goal of the MOOCs is to ensure that students, industry workers and any person interested, know and transmit the safety culture and its importance.

At the end of the MOOCs, the participants will be able to understand and explain the aspects related to human behaviour and its management to achieve a strong safety culture. These general concepts will be focused to the nuclear industry and its differentiating characteristics.

MOOCs Structure
The MOOCs structure includes three independent NOOCs (Nano Open Online Courses).

• NOOC I. What is Safety Culture? 10h.
• NOOC II. Understanding Nuclear Safety Culture>. 10h
• NOOC III. Developing leadership for safety. 5h

In this context we offer in this course as well as in the other two NOOCs, a very extensive glossary of nuclear terms in order to guide those with little or no knowledge on the subject for the complete understanding of all the contents, specially for NOOC II.

We highly thank those advertising this initiative within the nuclear sector, but as well towards professionals from other industries (specially high-risk industries), as well as master students of nuclear and other technical studies, to gather a varied audience to enhance global networking and a collaborative learning experience. This course will allow a research study and its dissemination is crucial to achieve massive participation from the main target groups.

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