With the inception of the King Abdullah City of Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-CARE) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the future of Nuclear Power looks promising. Although the addition of nuclear power will help solve the energy related issues of the country, however, it will also be a challenge to build a Safety Culture in nuclear facilities in a short span of time. Safety culture is essentially anassembly of characteristics and attitudes in any organizations and individuals, which

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... ishes that, as an overriding priority, nuclear plant safety issues will receive the attention warranted by their significance. Since the history of nuclear power in the Kingdom is still in infancy, attention to safety will involve the participation of many elements of organizations and for individuals at all levels and in all types of activities. Key features wouldinclude individual awareness of the importance of safety; knowledge and competence, conferred by training and instruction of personnel and by self-education; commitment, requiring demonstration at senior management level of the high priority of safety and adoption by individuals of the common goal of safety; motivation, through leadership, the setting of objectives, systems of rewards and sanctions and through individuals' self-generated attitudes; supervision, including audit and review practices, with readiness to respond to individuals' questioning attitudes and responsibility, through formal assignment and description of duties and their understanding by individuals. The essential components of the safety culture have been discussed in depth in this paper.