Bill C, I agree that non-compliance should not be diluted with praise. But if a QA report has no non-compliance to report, is that a sign that 1) praise is in...
I have been trained and performed root cause analyses for plant trips (resulting from equipment failure and human error) and common cause evaluations. There...
I also agree that non-compliance should not be diluted with praise. BUT, when an Oversight/QA/QC employee observes a line employee doing a great job, then said...
This begs some additional questions.  - What is the oversight organization expected to do at your station, per their own procedures? - Is this view...
A most interesting extended thread on oversight... Couple of comments: 1. The only way I see that an oversight organization's "failure" could possibly be a...
Death by a thousand cuts. Many of the factors were set in motion in prior years, if not decades. Among other things, gradually moving from regulation and...
Praise, like emotion, is a necessary part of human life. Both praise and emotion, when used judiciously , have their places in our work lives and in our...
<<If Oversight owned the problems, then so would the NRC and INPO. >> This has been an interesting discussion. We may be arguing both sides of this issue as...
Couple of thoughts from an historical perspective: * INPO gives "strengths" in addition to "areas for improvement" and "weaknesses". Yet they are an...
On, emridgell and others, These posts are talking about two different things and there is an important difference to me. The example of "oversight" reviewing...
Dillard, Tedd A (E S ...
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Jun 1, 2009 6:48 pm
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More thoughts on accountability and responsibility - offered without further comment. Admiral Rickover thought that responsibility was a little like the Holy...
Tedd,  I'm not sure they are different. This is why I asked for a clear definition of what the oversight organizations charter is. Some organizations...
You both make a very important and valid point. There are many definitions of specific activities that fall under the general category of "oversight" and it...
I'm uncomfortable with "culpability." Â Who should be learning and what should they be learning? Take care, Â Bill Corcoran Mission: Saving lives, pain,...
That old bully AGAIN? ________________________________ From: "Oldnuke640@..." <Oldnuke640@...> To: Root_Cause_State_of_the_Practice@yahoogroups.com ...
So am I - but despite our desires to avoid talking about it - but the words "culpability" and "blame" are always there. Better to talk about it in the...
Bill,
Please remove me from the email distribution. UDS formally declared
Taproot as the system they will use for RCA. I had hoped to keep with...
Josie Y. Blackmon
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Jun 2, 2009 2:56 pm
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Terry, et al, I looked for Oversight, QC, and QA in the Rooticians Dictionary and struck out. I know ASME is big on QC, while OSHA and ISO are big on QA, and ...
I looked on the internet and it is not clear to me what they mean. ASQ says that quality assurance and quality control are often used interchangeably but that...
Dillard, Tedd A (E S ...
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Jun 2, 2009 5:45 pm
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Tedd, Your view is consistent with ISO, which clearly confines QA within the manufacturer's domain. On the other hand OSHA is equally clear that QA is what the...
Jack V, The 18 criteria that Dr. Demming alluded to during his dinner with Arnie G. are the 10CFR50 Appendix B "QA criteria for nuclear power plants". They ...
Old Nuke, Thank you very much! I should have figured this out on my own. I read it all, though. At age 56, I am kind of an old nuke myself. Unemployed, and...
Is the following oversight?  International team reviewing Canada's nuclear watchdog  By THE CANADIAN PRESS – 1 day ago OTTAWA — Canada's nuclear...
Absolutely....in fact the prospect of this evaluation many months ago appears to have prompted fairly significant changes in structure and process for the...
Change is the Mother of Trouble. Â Scroll down for an illustrative story. Â Have you seen this apply in your facility? Take care, Â Bill Corcoran Mission:...
Bill, I bet that somewhere there is a design manual that has a check list that includes consideration of bicycle lanes and pedestrian lanes and a long list of...
Dillard, Tedd A (E S ...
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Jun 8, 2009 8:20 am
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Tedd, Â Thanks. Â I was greatly saddened by this article. Â For years I have been using the rumble strip in class as the protypical ideal new barrier...
Bill Salot, Â Thanks for carefully reading the article. Â What you called out as a typo was my intent. Just because an item is not a factor of the effect you...
Bill C, Item 1: When I read Footnote 1, I don't get that message. Item 2: Can't consequences also be factors? Bill Salot ________________________________ From:...
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