NSCAT Admin Manual
Overview
NSCAT (the Nuclear Safety Culture Assessment Tool) is where safety culture assessments are built,...
Users & Access
Creating NSCAT accounts, assigning admin roles, and controlling who can see which activity.
Organization Setup
The one-time configuration every activity inherits - utilities, the ISF, and rating scales.
Utilities
Overview — What a Utility Is ? A utility is an organization in NSCAT. Every user belongs to one, ...
The ISF
Overview — The Assessment Framework The ISF is the framework every NSCAT assessment is measured a...
Rating Scales
Overview — Two Places, One Setting A rating scale is the set of options a respondent picks from w...
Content Libraries
The shared question, theme, and training content that activities draw from.
Question Composer
Overview — The Shared Question Pool The question pool is the shared library every survey and inte...
Theme Management
Overview — What Themes Do Themes are the labels used to categorize qualitative findings — intervi...
Training Management
Overview — The Training Record Training Management is NSCAT's record of who has been trained, in ...
Activity Administration
Overseeing activities across the utility - locking, auditing, and admin-only properties.
Manage Activities
Overview — Locking and Unlocking Locking an activity makes it read-only. It is how you close an a...
Activity Properties
Overview — The Activity's Settings Page Properties is where an activity's administrative settings...
Activity Feed
Overview — The Audit Trail The Activity Feed is a running log of what has happened inside an acti...
Deleted Observations
Overview — Deletion Is Recoverable, Recovery Is Not Universal When someone deletes an observation...
Cross-Activity Reporting
The reports that span more than one activity, available to Utility Admins.
Cultural Pattern Rank Order (CPRO)
Overview — Comparing Rank Orders Across Assessments The Cultural Pattern Rank Order report — CPRO...
Trending Report
Overview — Scores Over Time The Trending Report puts several activities side by side and shows ho...
Report Builder
Overview — Custom Reports The Report Builder produces custom Excel reports from one activity's su...
Lessons Learned Review
Overview — The Shared Lessons Library Lessons Learned Review is the cross-activity library of les...
Reference
Lookups you'll come back to
Validation Rules
Overview — Why a Save Button Stays Grey NSCAT validates forms as you type and keeps the save butt...
Troubleshooting
Overview — Start Here Most NSCAT support questions come down to one of five things. Work through ...
System Health & the COG Database Account
Overview — When NSCAT Cannot Reach Its Database NSCAT's API exposes a health endpoint that checks...