Lessons from IAEA with Monica Haage, 25/3, 2025
- Mar 26, 2025
- 3 min read
What?
Both the term “safety culture” and much of the development and deployment of the systemic view on safety stem from work done by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
At a first glance, one might think that what IAEA has done and published is only relevant to organizations in the nuclear sector. However, IAEA has published many reports and other types of publications that are much relevant and filled with lessons learned that could be of use for other industrial sectors, but that perhaps are not that known outside the nuclear industry.
SÄKU was happy to welcome back Monica Haage, for a webinar that gave us a little history on IAEA’s work on culture and leadership with regards to safety and security that could be used by most industrial sectors. Monica has previously led the development of several IAEA publications, such as the IAEA safety culture assessment methodology (ISCA/SCSA) – Performing Safety Culture Self-Assessments, which is part of the IAEA Safety Culture Continuous Improvement Process (SCCIP). Monica was also the IAEA technical lead for the analysis of the human and organizational/safety culture underlying causes of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident.
Monica is now part of the working groups that over the next years will release new IAEA publications on the matter of Resilience and Dynamic Leadership. At the webinar, Monica also gave us a hint of the current and future developments in these regards, that not many people know of and that any industry could find useful.
As always, the audience also got the chance to ask their questions.
The webinar was held in English.
About Monica Haage
Monica Haage has over twenty years of experience in supporting organizations to evolve the area of human and organizational factors. Her special focus is on leadership, management and culture for safety as well as a systemic approach to safety. Her recent work is focused on resilience capacity building. Monica has previously served as a Senior Nuclear Safety Specialist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in Paris and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. She started her safety carrier in the safety department at OKG Nuclear Plant. Now, Monica is part of the SÄKU member and the CEO of the Evolving Energy Consortium 2EC, a consortium of experts with over a hundred years of internationally accumulated experience in nuclear power, oil & gas, aviation and other industries prioritizing safety. 2EC delivers capacity building assistance to organizations who are committed to continuously evolving safety, resilience and a viable business.
Material
Presentation
Monica's presentation from the webinar can be downloaded HERE.
Contact information
If you want to get in touch with Monica, you can connect with her on LinkedIn and/or through her email:
Monica Haage: Monica.Haage@2ec.se
Recording
A recording of the webinar can be seen on SÄKUPlay (Youtube) below.
IAEA References (also found at the end of the presentation)
IAEA Fundamental Safety Principles SF-1, Vienna 2006
Download HERE
IAEA General Safety Requirements No GSR Part 2, Vienna 2016
Topic: Leadership and Management for Safety
Download HERE
IAEA INSAG-1, INSAG-4 & INSAG-7
Topic: The Chernobyl Accident
Download HERE
The IAEA Fukushima Accident Report Technical Volume (See chapter 2.6)
Download HERE
The IAEA Fukushima Accident Report by the DG
Download HERE
IAEA Draft of the 10 Traits of a Healthy Safety Culture
Have a look HERE
IAEA Technical Meeting on Managing on the Unexpected with links to video presentations Sutcliffe, Hollnagel, Paries, Roberts, Dahlgren etc
Have a look HERE
Prof. Edgar Schein's talk to nuclear leaders from IAEA Safety Culture Conference 2016
References and Recommended Publications (also found at the end of the presentation)
Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
Have a look HERE
TEPCO report with self-reflection and systemic analysis of the Fukushima accident
Download HERE
Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD-NEA)
Safety Culture Principles for Regulatory Bodies
Download HERE
Edgar Shein & Peter Schein - Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (2018)
Warmly recommended read for managers
Have a look HERE
Humbly Inquiry video clip with Edgar Schein
Intent-Based Leadership with Captain David Marquet (2015)
Former Nuclear Submarine Captain and author of Turn the Ship Around
Have a look below
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