Overview

NSCAT (the Nuclear Safety Culture Assessment Tool) is where safety culture assessments are built, run, and reported. This manual is for the people who set NSCAT up and keep it running — creating accounts, defining the framework every assessment is measured against, curating the shared question and theme libraries, and overseeing activities across the organization.

If you are here to run an assessment — build a survey, take interview notes, read a report — you want the NSCAT User Manual instead.

The two admin roles

NSCAT has two administrator roles, and they are not nested — a COG Admin is not a superset of a Utility Admin. They are separate checkboxes on a user's account, and several parts of the app are visible to exactly one of them.

 

Below the two admin roles sit the activity-level roles, which are assigned per activity rather than on the account:

·        Team Lead — write access to the activities they are assigned to.

·        Team Member — read/write access according to their assignment.

A user with no assignment to an activity sees Access Restricted where that activity's menu would be.

 

What each role can reach

 

 

Where the admin tools live

Everything in this manual is reached from the left sidebar.

·        The Administration group (near the bottom) holds Register a User, Manage User, and the Utility and ISF sub-groups. The group only appears for COG Admins and Utility Admins.

·        Manage Activities sits just above it, for COG Admins only.

·        Question Composer, Theme Management, and Training Management appear as their own sidebar entries for Utility Admins.

·        The cross-activity reports — Cultural Pattern Rank Order, Trending Report, Report Builder — each have their own entry for Utility Admins.

[ SCREENSHOT: The sidebar as a COG Admin and Utility Admin sees it, with the Administration group expanded. ]

The sidebar as a COG Admin and Utility Admin sees it, with the Administration group expanded.

 

Set-up order for a new organization

If you are standing NSCAT up from scratch, the pieces depend on each other. Work in this order:

1.      Define the ISF — the Trait → Attribute hierarchy every question and report is organized by. See The ISF.

2.      Create the utility and point it at that ISF, then set its rating scale and rating labels. See Utilities.

3.      Register the administrators for that utility. See Registering & Managing Users.

4.      Build the question pool and publish the questions activities will draw on.

5.      Define the themes, following the Attribute - Trait naming convention.

6.      Create the first activity and assign its Team Leads and Team Members.

 

Sessions and staying signed in

NSCAT signs you in with a token that has a fixed lifetime. The app watches the clock for you and prompts you to sign in again at 30 minutes, 5 minutes, and 1 minute before the token expires.