ML062210130

Herb Williams Notes/Comments on The... Interview

ML062210130
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek
Issue date:	01/27/2004
From:	Williams H - No Known Affiliation
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
FOIA/PA-2005-0194
Download: ML062210130 (2)

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Herb Williams notes/comments on the nterview (1-27-04)

The following are my observations/questions of 1o ntervlew held on 1-27-04.

Will raise concerns and has done so before? YES See below Raises concerns for others? YES None Believes others raise concerns without hesitation? NO See Below Knows of someone who has experienced retaliation for N/A Not specifically addressed during Interview raising concerns?

Bins for Issues:

1. 1 - PERCEIVED LACK OF FREEDOM TO RAISE SAFETY CONCERNS TO PSEG MANAGEMENT

1. 2 - PRODUCTION OVER SAFETY ISSUES

1. 3 - SCHEDULE PRESSURE ISSUES

1. 4 - LABOR - MANAGEMENT ISSUES

1. 5 - INDUSTRIAL SAFETY ISSUES OTHER UNSPECIFIED ISSUES/COMMENTS

1. 1 - PERCEIVED LACK OF FREEDOM TO RAISE SAFETY CONCERNS TO PSEG MANAGEMENT

• (p. 13) Several people are not willing to continue to bring these Issues (falsification of records - premature doseout of corrective maintenance work packages) up again for fear of losing their jobs ... *They have [raised] these Issues before and they [have been] pushed and there's nobody backing them up, telling them it's wrong to [prematurely] dose the packages ... They're afraid that If they don't do it they are going to lose their jobs" 0 (p. 15) An individual raised an issue about service water valves being Installed Incorrectly (therefore would not operate as designed) and was told not to write a notification about It. Maintenance management finally agreed to the writing of a notification only after the Individual got Operations and QA personnel Involved in his chain of command.

• (p. 18)'Nobody believes Inthe employee concerns program there ... [as a result of the inability to maintain confidentiality as well as the Inadequacy of results]"

• (p. 29) NOne Salem supervisor was terminated for [doing the same sort of things that past and current maintenance superintendents-ha endo promoted/ordered ... things like] not having correct paper work ... missing steps, signatures, sign offs, (etc.]"

1. 2 - PRODUCTION OVER SAFETY ISSUES (p. 15) 1I will tell you that there were valves ... that were not installed correctly ... Operations accepted [these valves]

even though they were installed Incorrectly and wouldn't operate as designed"

1. 3 - SCHEDULE PRESSURE ISSUES (p. 9 - 11) Since September of 2003, work packages were benclsedJtJt the work bein ontreducet told corrective maintenance backlog..' occasion. "-

- dose out work packages on more than one (p. 38 - 62) The Hope Creek ýB" reclrc. pump had a tolerance / alignment problem that manifested itself via high vibration that was 'corrected' by machining and repositioning the vibration Indication equipment effectively 'masking' the problem.

The condition Is still believed to have not been properly addressed (i.e. correcting the root cause of the mis-alignment) to date.

• 4 - LABOR - MANAGEMENT ISSUES

• (p. 12) Supervisors' & Managers' jobs were threatened If they failed to reduce the corrective maintenance backlog, overtime, lost-time accidents, safety Incidents, and human performance incidents.

1. 5 - INDUSTRIAL SAFETY ISSUES

• (p. 12) Supervisors' & Managers' Jobs were threatened if they failed to reduce the corrective maintenance backlog, overtime, lost-time accidents, safety incidents, and human performance Incidents.

.OTHER UNSPECIFIED ISSUES/COMMENTS In NONE S.this recOrd was Am,.

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