# 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.
**Role** **What it is for**
**COG Admin** Cross-organization administration. Owns the **ISF**, creates **utilities**, and can lock or unlock any activity.
**Utility Admin** Administration within one utility. Owns the **question pool**, **themes**, and **training records**, and runs the cross-activity reports.
**HEADS UP **Because the roles are independent, an account with **only** COG Admin ticked cannot open Question Composer, Theme Management, Training Management, or the Trending and CPRO reports. Most people who administer day to day need **both** boxes ticked. See **Registering & Managing Users**.
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
**Area** **COG Admin** **Utility Admin**
**Register a User** / **Manage User** Yes Yes
**Add Utility** Yes —
**Manage Utility** Yes Yes
**Add ISF** / **Manage ISF** Yes —
**Manage Activities** (lock / unlock) Yes —
**Activity Feed** (audit trail) Yes Yes
**Question Composer** — Yes
**Theme Management** — Yes
**Training Management** — Yes
**Cultural Pattern Rank Order Report** — Yes
**Trending Report** — Yes
**Report Builder** — Yes
**Lessons Learned Review** **No** Yes
**GOOD TO KNOW Lessons Learned Review** is deliberately hidden from COG Admins — it is a utility-level review activity. If you are a COG Admin looking for it and cannot find it in the sidebar, that is expected behaviour, not a fault.
### 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.*
**PRO TIP Add Utility** and **Manage Utility**, and both **ISF** entries, open as **dialogs** rather than navigating to a new page. You can open them from anywhere without losing the page you were on.
### 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.
**HEADS UP **Step 1 before step 2 is not optional — a utility must be assigned an **ISF Name** when it is created, so the ISF has to exist first.
### 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.
**PRO TIP **Re-login prompts appear over whatever you were doing and do not discard your work. If you are part-way through a long form — a new ISF, a survey — sign in again at the prompt rather than dismissing it and risking an expired token mid-save.