Industrial Safety
Ensuring a safe workplace for our people
From the outset, we have made the safety of our people, our communities, our environment and our plant, our overriding priority. Safety always has, and always will, come first.
We are committed to a Culture of Safety. The complex and extensive construction program at Barakah Plant was a major focus of the Culture of Safety program’s efforts. At the peak of construction, we had nearly 25,000 people working at our site in Barakah. Activities were performed with safety in mind at all times to ensure the site remained a safe workplace for our employees every day.
When preliminary site works began at Barakah back in 2010, ENEC was focused on managing the project to ensure that all construction work met local regulations and the highest standards of safety and quality.
We worked closely with our contractors, regulators and the international nuclear community to develop and maintain a world-class nuclear safety culture, policies and procedures. Regular safety and quality audits were a core part of the program, ensuring continual improvement in all areas of management and operation. We hosted more than 7,500 dedicated safety trainings on site since, attended by almost 250,000 attendees.
In February 2015, ENEC received the top award in the “Building Risk Management Capability” category at the Institute of Risk Management’s 2015 Global Risk Awards. ENEC received this award based on our commitment to the highest international standards of safety, quality and risk management.
As part of its commitment to safety, we also established a rigorous independent Quality Assurance Program to ensure that the UAE’s first nuclear energy plant was constructed, commissioned and operated in line with the best industry practices, governing codes and standards, regulations and license requirements. ENEC dedicated more than 41,000 man-hours to quality audits for all aspects of the program.
ENEC’s Quality Assurance Program applied to all aspects of work on the nuclear energy program. Regular training sessions, assessments and audits were conducted to ensure the organization’s high standards were met and continually improved upon.
Now with Barakah operations and maintenance , the Quality Assurance Program continues to apply not just to ENEC, but to every contractor and subcontractor involved in the project – the entire supply chain. The program is documented in ENEC’s Quality Assurance Manual, which outlines the quality requirements and responsibilities for all activities conducted by, or on behalf of, ENEC, including oversight of its prime contractor, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), as well as subcontractors and suppliers.
Operational Safety