05000461/FIN-2011005-02
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| Title | Failure to Control the Work Hours of a Covered Worker |
| Description | The inspectors identified a finding of very low safety significance with an associated non-cited violation of 10 CFR 26.205(c) and (d) for the licensees failure to schedule and control the work hours of a covered worker performing surveillance testing on containment isolation valves during the refueling outage. Specifically, an engineer performing local leak rate testing during the refueling outage was scheduled for successive 12-hour shifts and was inappropriately excluded from the work hour limits specified in 10 CFR 26.205(d)(1) and 10 CFR 26.205(d)(2). The licensee removed the engineer from covered work activities for the remainder of the refueling outage and reviewed the work activities of other engineers to ensure that any engineer performing covered work appropriately met work hour limits. The finding was of more than minor significance since the failure to schedule and control the work hours of a worker performing covered work, if left uncorrected, would become a more significant safety concern because it could reasonably result in human performance errors that could affect the function of safety-related structures, systems, and components. Since the issue involved leak rate testing on containment isolation valves performed during the refueling outage, the inspectors concluded that this issue was associated with the Barrier Integrity Cornerstone. The finding was a licensee performance deficiency of very low safety significance because it did not represent an actual open pathway in the physical integrity of the reactor containment. The inspectors concluded that this finding affected the cross-cutting area of human performance. Specifically, the engineer did not meet expectations regarding the performance of covered work activities because he did not challenge directions given to him by the leak rate test team supervisor and the leak rate test team supervisor did not meet expectations to ensure that the engineer was in compliance with the 10 CFR 26.205(a) work hour requirements. Therefore, the inspectors concluded that the licensees work practices which support human performance were less than effective. |
| Site: | Clinton  |
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| Report | IR 05000461/2011005 Section 1R20 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2011 (2011Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Barrier Integrity |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.2 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | B Kemker D Lords J Cassidy J Draper J Mcghee M Bielby M Ring R Jickling S Mischke T Bilik |
| CCA | H.8, Procedure Adherence |
| INPO aspect | WP.4 |
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