The inspectors identified a Green noncited violation of
Technical Specification 5.4.1.a regarding the licensees failure to follow the requirements of Maintenance Procedure 7.0.7,
Scaffolding Construction and Control. Specifically, licensee personnel failed to inspect all existing scaffolds and failed to identify multiple
scaffolding interactions with safety-related equipment during a required annual scaffold inspection on January 21, 2008. This issue was entered Into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report
CR-CNS-2008-01576. The finding is more than minor because if left uncorrected the failure to perform annual scaffold inspections could become a more significant safety concern. Specifically, annual inspections failed to inspect all existing scaffolds and failed to identify multiple
scaffolding interactions with safety-related equipment. Using the Manual Chapter 0609,
Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 Worksheet, the finding is determined to have a very low safety significance because it did not result in the loss of function of a Technical Specification required system for greater than its allowed outage time. The cause of this finding is related to the human performance crosscutting component of work practices because maintenance personnel did not follow the requirements of Maintenance Procedure 7.0.7 (
H.4(b)