Organisational Capability Working Group

About us:

Aim: To improve the understanding, management and effectiveness of Organisational Capability.

  • Share information and experience of arrangements related to Organisational Capability and their implementation
  • Cover topics across a range of licence conditions including LC 7/10/12/26/36 and develop a common understanding of requirements
  • Provide peer to peer constructive support
  • Provide tools to support Organisational Capability
  • Disseminate learning from individual experience
  • Benchmark approaches and develop best practice
  • Produce good practice guides
  • Report to and, as appropriate, gain agreement for proposed activities from the SDF.

Programme of Work

Recent Activity

Nuclear Industry Safety Directors’ Forum, Good Practice Guide on Nuclear Baseline and the Management of Organisational Change, March 2017.

Nuclear Industry Safety Directors’ Forum, Good Practice Guide on Organisational Capability and Resilience, Sept 2018

Future programme

  • Review of the implementation of the good practice guide and Nuclear Industry Code of Practice (NICoP)
  • Sharing arrangements, key documents and experience of implementation of the good practice guide and NICoP
  • Reviewing good practice, sharing experience and if appropriate developing guidance on:
    • Organisational Baseline
    • Management of Organisational Change
  • Guidance on Leadership and Management for Safety
  • Develop an e-room
  • Evaluate the National Capability Vulnerability

More Information

Useful Documents

Overarching Management of Change and Principles Papers October 2020

Good Practice Guide on the Intelligent Customer Role September 2019

Good Practice Guide on Organisational Capability and Resilience Issue 1, Sept 2018

Nuclear Baseline and the Management of Organisational Change - a Good Practice Guide Issue 3, March 2017

Contact us

Chair: Elizabeth Atherton, RWM, elizabeth.atherton@nda.gov.uk
SDF Sponsor: Adam Hearnden, BAE Systems Maritime - Submarines