Bill, I have experience (as I'm sure many others do) being on the oversight end (self-assessment, peer industry assessment, INPO) and the receiving end of...
... meaningful ... definitively just how ... Well, actually, there is a validated method for calculating the sample sizes you need for different purposes....
Shirley, The end purpose of Appendix B is for a plant to perform satisfactorily (safely) in service. If the end purpose of the TPS is the same for cars, it...
Last year I spoke at a membership conference of a worldwide organization. The speaker ahead of me was Dr. Peter Sandman (www.psandman.com). I said to myself,...
Bill C., Shirley, Today's QA criteria has evolved from the critieria developed in the British and U.S. military dating back to the middle 20th century. If you...
Shirley, Great idea. A group comprised of nuclear community professionals and healthcare professionals might be a start. The idea is so basic that I'm...
Bill C. and Shirley, There are companies that specialize in providing some of the same services to the medical community, but I haven't seen the AMA or JCAHO...
a.. What does this imply about other professionals, e.g., airline pilots, ship officers, senior plant operators, safety professionals, government safety...
For those interested in further reading on this topic I would recommend reading "Internal Bleeding" by Dr. Robert Wachter. I was surprised that such an...
Hello, I am seeking your thoughts and experiences about how to change a Change Control process. I am aware of a non-hazardous manufacturing environment which...
Franklin, The answer to your first question is much easier than the second. To help raise awareness of the issues with the current process, I'd suggest using...
Terry, Thanks for the input. Is Situational Appraisal described in the "Rational Manager"? ~Franklin ... To help raise awareness of the issues with the...
Franklin, I don't have an original "Rational Manager" book, but my copy of "The New Rational Manager" discusses this in Chapter 7.If you have specific...
I ran up against just these sorts of questions recently while evaluating a recent industry event report for a client. Across the client's "fleet" of...
Try the eight questions on this one. Canadian reactor outage hits nuclear medicine supply 07 December 2007 Operator Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has...
I would submit that the only true measure of training effectiveness is reduced recurrence of similar issues. I have rarely found training to be the best way to...
Glen, I concur with your first statement, IF the training we are talking about is training designed to correct a performance deficiency. What you are...
Yes, CNSC had many missed opportunities. OBTW: Is CNSC going to publish its missed opportunity analysis? But to blame CNSC for the interruption of the isotope...
The last thing a regulated activity needs is a regulator that has been publicly humiliated for acting contrary to the public welfare. Is this a consequence of...
If AECL had wanted to discredit CNSC could they have been more effective? How could CNSC have prevented this debacle? What will bethe long term effects on...
2nd shot at the pictures. Glen and Randy, How well do these two pictures sum up the dialogue? The first applies to each corrective action while the second...
How long will it take for CNSC to get its reputation back? What will this cost the Canadian nuclear community? What are the lessons to be learned? Does CNSC...
Bill, What was missing from this article was a discussion of the actual safety concerns about the Chalk River plant. We only got AECL's side of the story, but...
Bill I guess when it comes to socialized medicine, production really does trump reactor safety! From what I can piece together from this story, there is a...
Ok, I think we are agreeing again, but can't tell. By changing the r/p model for managers I meant reducing the "highest reward is the absence of punishment"...
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