ML20217N282
| ML20217N282 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 04/28/1998 |
| From: | Paperiello C NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Knapp M NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9805050276 | |
| Download: ML20217N282 (3) | |
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MEMORANDUM TO:
Malcolm R. Knipp, Acting Dirzctor
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FROM:
Carl J. Paperiello, Director (Original signed by)
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards i
SUBJECT:
PRIOPITIZATION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE ACTIVITIES k
This responds to a March 30,1998, memorandum from Wayne Hodges, Director, DST /RES, to f Donald Cool, Director, IMNS/NMSS. That memorandum requested NMSS' participation in prioritization of human performance activities. NMSS has joined the other offices in similar efforts a number of times since 1988. Over the last several years, NMSS participated as a member of the Human Factors Coordinating Committee which developed and revised an agency-wide Human Factors Program Plan. Most recently NMSS participated _in development of the 1997 agency-wide Human Performance and Human Reliability implementation Plan which supplanted the Human Factors Program Plan and also participated in an associated effort to develop a method for prioritizing human factors activities.
Although NMSS' human factors efforts have addressed a number of important issues over the last fan years, those efforts have been guided by an informal prioritization process rather than a i
systematic, top-down approach. A current high priority project responding to Commission direction on risk-informed, performance-based regulation is intended to remedy that situation.
l All material systems regulated under 10 CFR Parts 30-36 and 39 are being evaluated in terms j
j of risk as part of the nuclear byproduct material risk review. The review's goal is to assign j
material systems to regulatory sitematives which are commensurate with the risk they pose.
I Human actions are closely tied to risk in nuclear byproduct material systems. As a result, NMSS' human factors resources are fully allocated to the nuclear byproduct material risk review, and NMSS is not able to participate in the current effort to prioritize human l
performance activities..However, upon completion of the risk review, NMSS will have a basis for development of top-down guidance for human factors activities related to material systems.
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3 MEMORANDUM TO:
Malcolm R.: Knipp, Acting Dirrctor
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Carl J. Paperiello, Director
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SUBJECT:
PRIORITIZATION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE ACTIVITIES This responds to a March'SQ,1998, memorandum from Wayne Hodges, Director, DST /RES, to Donald Cool, Director, IMNS/N, MSS. That memorandum requested NMSS participation in prioritization of human performance activities. NMSS has joined the other offices in similar
- efforts a number of times since 1988. Over the_last several years, NMSS participated as a member of the Human Factors Coordinating Committee which developed and revised an
- agency-wide Human Factors Program Plan. Most recently NMSS participated in development of the 1997 agency-wide Human Pe'rformance and Human Reliability Implementation Plan which supplanted the Human Factors Program Plan and also participated in an associated
- effort to develop a method for prioritizing human factors activities.
Although NMSS's human factors efforts have addressed a number of important issues over the last ten years, those efforts have been gbided by an informal prioritization process rather than a systematic, top-down approach. A current high priority project responding to Commission direction on risk-informed, performance-based regulation is intended to remedy that situation.
All material systems regulated under 10 CFR parts 30-36 and 39 are being evaluated in terms of risk as part of the nuclear byproduct material risk review. The review's goalis to assign material systems to regulatory altematives which are commensurate with the risk they poso.
Human actions are closely tied to risk in nuclear tSyproduct material systems. As a result, NMSS's human factors resources are fully allocated to the nuclear byproduct material risk review, and NMSS is not able to participate in the current effort to prioritize human performance activities. However, upon completion of the risk review, NMSS will have a basis for development of top-down guidance for human factors activities related to material systems.
Participation its agency-wide coordination of human factors efforts will be appropriate at that time, cc: W. Hodges J. Persensky
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