Download or read book Best Practices in the Organization Management and Conduct of an Effective Investigation of Events at Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is intended to build upon the requirements of event investigation set forth in the IAEA Safety Standards Series No. NS-R-2 on Safety of Nuclear Power Plants: Operation, and also complements the IAEA PROSPER Guidelines for Peer Review and for Plant Self-assessment of Operational Experience Feedback Process. It contains best practices regarding the investigation of events to ensure that it is effectively organised and conducted to determine the direct causes, root causes, contributing factors and lessons learned to improve safety and prevent recurrence of events. Use of the guidance provided by this publication will be helpful to nuclear facilities and related institutions to strengthen and enhance their feedback process through the implementation of best practices in the organisation, management and conduct of an effective investigation of events.
Download or read book Radiation Protection at Light Water Reactors written by Robert Prince and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at Health Physicists wishing to gain a better understanding of the principles and practices associated with a light water reactor (LWR) radiation protection program. The role of key program elements is presented in sufficient detail to assist practicing radiation protection professionals in improving and strengthening their current program. Details related to daily operation and discipline areas vital to maintaining an effective LWR radiation protection program are presented. Programmatic areas and functions important in preventing, responding to, and minimizing radiological incidents and the importance of performing effective incident evaluations and investigations are described. Elements that are integral in ensuring continuous program improvements are emphasized throughout the text.
Download or read book Cause Analysis Manual written by Fred Forck, CPT and published by Rothstein Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A failure or accident brings your business to a sudden halt. How did it happen? What’s at the root of the problem? What keeps it from happening again? Good detective work is needed -- but how do you go about it? In this new book, industry pioneer Fred Forck’s seven-step cause analysis methodology guides you to the root of the incident, enabling you to act effectively to avoid loss of time, money, productivity, and quality. From 30+ years of experience as a performance improvement consultant, self-assessment team leader, and trainer, Fred Forck, CPT, understands what you need to get the job done. He leads you through a clear step-by-step process of root cause evaluation, quality improvement, and corrective action. Using these straightforward tools, you can avoid errors, increase reliability, enhance performance, and improve bottom-line results -- while creating a resilient culture that avoids repeat failures. The key phases of this successful cause analysis include: Scoping the Problem Investigating the Factors Reconstructing the Story Establishing Contributing Factors Validating Underlying Factors Planning Corrective Actions Reporting Learnings At each stage, Cause Analysis Manual: Incident Investigation Method and Techniques gives you a wealth of real-world examples, models, thought-provoking discussion questions, and ready-to-use checklists and forms. The author provides: references for further reading hundreds of illustrative figures, tables, and diagrams a full glossary of terms and acronyms professional index You know that identifying causes and preventing business-disrupting events isn’t always easy. By following Fred Forck’s proven steps you will be able to identify contributing factors, align organizational behaviors, take corrective action, and improve business performance! Are you a professor or leader of seminars or workshops? On confirmed course adoption of Cause Analysis Manual: Incident Investigation Method and Techniques, you will have access to a comprehensive, professional Instructor’s Manual.
Download or read book Low Level Event and Near Miss Process for Nuclear Power Plants written by IAEA (Corporate Author) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides nuclear power plant operators and regulatory organizations with a best practice overview of the development, implementation and continuous improvement of low level events and near misses processes. Use of guidance and best practices, as described in this publication, will help the relevant organizations in recognizing emerging adverse trends by analysing lower level events and near misses. Correcting such adverse trends proactively mayl prevent occurrence of significant events and, thereby, enhance the safety and reliability of nuclear power plants.
Download or read book Best Practices in Identifying Reporting and Screening Operating Experience at Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishment of an effective identification, reporting and screening process ensures that operating experience is treated according to its significance and major events and latent weaknesses are identified and reported. This publication provides recommendations and good practices from the industry for the successful establishment of an effective process to identify, report and screen operating experience directed to collect lessons learned and to prevent the recurrence of events. The use of the guidance provided by this publication will be helpful to nuclear installations, and related institutions including contractors and support organizations to strengthen and enhance their own feedback process through the implementation of best practices in identifying, reporting and screening operating experience at nuclear power plants. This publication develops some of the principles set forth in the PROSPER guidelines issued by the IAEA in 2003 to provide advice and assistance to nuclear installations to strengthen and enhance their own operating experience programs.
Download or read book Low Level Event and Near Miss Process for Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides nuclear power plant operators and regulatory organizations with a best practice overview of the development, implementation and continuous improvement of low level events and near misses processes. Use of guidance and best practices, as described in this publication, will help the relevant organizations in recognizing emerging adverse trends by analysing lower level events and near misses. Correcting such adverse trends proactively mayl prevent occurrence of significant events and, thereby, enhance the safety and reliability of nuclear power plants.
Download or read book Trending of Low Level Events and Near Misses to Enhance Safety Performance in Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by IAEA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains guidance for maximising the operational safety performance of nuclear power plants through the collection and study of low level safety events and near misses, in order to identify potential safety concerns at an early stage. It sets out examples, methodologies and suggestions to plant operators on how to implement a procedure to detect, select and process such events which can help prevent major incidents from occurring as any latent weaknesses can be identified and corrected.
Download or read book Knowledge Loss Risk Management in Nuclear Organizations written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides a methodology to enable knowledge loss risk management to ensure safe, reliable and efficient operation of nuclear facilities. It focuses on aspects of knowledge loss risks associated with employee attrition and provides guidance to mitigate them. The described methodology has proved itself in nuclear power plants and can be adopted by any other nuclear related organization. The publication also provides examples of best practices (case studies) of effective knowledge loss risk management gathered from the nuclear power plants and nuclear related organizations as outlined in annexes I-V.
Download or read book Basic Safety Principles for Nuclear Power Plants written by International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present report is a revision of Safety Series No. 75-INSAG-3 (1988), updating the statements made on the objectives and principles of safe design and operation for electricity generating nuclear power plants. It includes the improvements made in the safety of operating nuclear power plants and identifies the principles underlying the best current safety policies to be applied in future plants. It presents INSAG's understanding of the principles underlying the best current safety policies and practices of the nuclear power industry.
Download or read book Guide to Good Practices for Notifications and Investigation of Abnormal Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide to Good Practices is written to enhance understanding of, and provide direction for, Notifications, Chapter VII, and Investigation of Abnormal Events, Chapter VI, of Department of Energy (DOE) Order 5480.19, Conduct of Operations Requirements for DOE Facilities. The practices in this guide should be considered when planning or reviewing programs for notifications and investigation of abnormal events. Contractors are advised to adopt procedures that meet the intent of DOE Order 5480.19. Notifications and Investigation of Abnormal Events are elements of an effective Conduct of Operations program. The complexity and array of activities performed in DOE facilities dictate the necessity for a coordinated notifications program and a consistent method for investigating abnormal events to promote safe and efficient operations.
Download or read book Developing a National Framework for Managing the Response to Nuclear Security Events written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides guidance to States on the development, implementation, maintenance and sustainment of a national framework for managing the response to nuclear security events. Such a framework involves a structure and a set of principles and agreements around which a State can frame its nuclear security response functions, addressing the interfaces which need to exist between responding agencies to ensure effective, coordinated response. By using this Implementing Guide, a State will ensure that it has considered all relevant key issues as it develops its national framework for responding to nuclear security events.
Download or read book Integrated Life Cycle Risk Management for New Nuclear Power Plants written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated risk management (IRM) is particularly important during the preparation and construction phases of a nuclear power plant (NPP) and anticipates the risks that could arise during the operation and decommissioning phases. This publication is designed to enhance stakeholders' understanding of the fundamental processes, procedures, and methods for IRM. Practical guidelines are provided and best practices shared. The importance of having appropriate risk management policies, especially when considering the various contractual and organizational arrangements in different construction entities, operating organizations and Member States is emphasized. Tables are provided throughout the publication to indicate the causes of risks and their impacts on the applicable NPP or project. Economic evaluation techniques are also introduced. Member States contemplating expanding their existing nuclear power plant fleets can be expected to benefit from this publication, but it will likely be most valuable for Member States newly embarking upon a nuclear power programme.
Download or read book The Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Security Interface Approaches and National Experiences written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication was developed from the exchange of information, experiences and practices by participating Member States at the IAEA Technical Meeting on the Safety and Security Interface Approaches and National Experiences, held in Vienna in 2018. It aims to provide a better understanding of the important elements of the interface between nuclear safety and nuclear security for facilities and activities and to highlight the challenges, opportunities and good practices for its effective management when planning and implementing different programmes and activities.
Download or read book Systems for Reporting Unusual Events in Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management of Nuclear Power Plant Projects written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Member States intending to introduce a nuclear power programme will need to pass through several phases during the implementation. Experience shows that careful planning of the objectives, roles, responsibilities, interfaces and tasks to be carried out in different phases of a nuclear project is important for success. This publication presents a harmonized approach that may be used to structure the owner/operator management system and establish and manage nuclear projects and their development activities irrespective of the adopted approach. It has been developed from shared management practices and consolidated experiences provided by nuclear project management specialists through a series of workshops and working groups organized by the IAEA. The resultant publication presents a useful framework for the management of nuclear projects from initiation to closeout and captures international best practices.
Download or read book The Operating Organization for Nuclear Power Plants written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for use by regulatory bodies and the operating organizations of nuclear power plants, this Safety Guide addresses the commissioning, operation and preparation for decommissioning stages for a nuclear power plant. The role of the operating organization in the siting, design, manufacturing and construction of a nuclear power plant is outside the scope. In most States, the operating organization is the legal entity responsible for safety, financial and commercial obligations, as well as other obligations that are connected with the operation of a nuclear power plant. This Safety Guide is solely concerned with those responsibilities and obligations that are necessary to ensure the safe operation of the nuclear power plant(s) under the control of the operating organization.
Download or read book Enhancing Nuclear Security Culture in Organizations Associated with Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear security culture is an important component of an effective nuclear security regime, as it serves as a tool to improve the performance of the human component at nuclear facilities and organizations to counter both insider and outsider threats. Security culture connotes not only the technical proficiency of the people but also their awareness of security risks and motivation to follow established procedures, comply with regulations and take the initiative when unforeseen circumstances arise. A workforce made up of individuals who are vigilant, who question irregularities, execute their work diligently and exhibit high standards of personal and collective behaviour is able to achieve effective nuclear security. Building upon this understanding of the importance of a strong nuclear security culture, this publication provides practical guidance on how to implement a systematic nuclear security culture enhancement programme.
