Human and organizational factors are as important as technical expertise

AREVA works continuously to improve its risk management, in all of its operations. Our commitment to continuous improvement is a long-term one and demands the same unfailing commitment from everyone in the group.

Preserving the health of employees, of subcontractor personnel, and of the neighboring communities has the highest priority for AREVA.

Everyone in the group is working towards the goal of zero accidents by bringing personal commitment and the right attitude to safety improvement every day.

The same vigilance applies to nuclear safety and environmental preservation. Each person is aware of the absolute requirement to comply scrupulously with all regulatory requirements implicit in operating permits and licenses and to ensure that external impacts from facility operations are completely under control.

By adhering strictly to regulatory requirements and recommendations from national and international regulatory agencies, the group's entities are all helping to improve nuclear and occupational safety performance even more at each site.

The expectations of the group’s stakeholders are rising. They are viewed as opportunities for examining the group’s organization, processes, operating methods and modes of expression continually, consistently, regardless of the country, so that we may improve even more.

Providing reliable, understandable information

Dialogue and transparency are key words in communications for AREVA and its subsidiaries.

The group strives to communicate on all of its practices proactively, understandably and usefully. Relations with all stakeholders are of vital importance.

Communications take several forms:

• AREVA’s General Inspectorate of Nuclear Safety publishes an annual report on the status of safety in the group's facilities.
• Data from environmental sampling and analysis of radioactivity near the group’s mines and plant sites are sent each month to France’s national environmental radioactivity measurement network (RNM), which publishes them on the Internet.
• Results of environmental sampling and analysis are published in the sites’ annual nuclear safety and radiation protection reports and/or their environmental and societal reports. These reports are provided to the public, the information commissions* and the committee on nuclear safety information and transparency**. The AREVA group also publishes the data on its website.
• Any nuclear event of level 1 or higher on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) triggers a press release.

* Commission Locale d'Information (CLI)
** Haut Comité pour la Transparence et l'Information sur la Sécurité Nucléaire (HCTISN)