ML18043A411

Responds to Deficiency Noted in IE Insp Rept 50-255/78-26. Corrective Actions:Audit & Review of Employee Training Records

ML18043A411
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	12/19/1978
From:	Hoffman D CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To:	James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
References
NUDOCS 7901170028
Download: ML18043A411 (3)

See also: IR 05000255/1978026

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Power company General Offices: 212 West Michigan*

Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201 * Area Code 517 788-0550 December 19, 1978 Mr James G Keppler Office of Inspection

and Enforcement

Region III US Nuclear Regulatory

Commission

799 Roosevelt

Road Glen Eliyn, IL 60137 DOCKET 50-255 -LICENSE DPR-20 -PALISADES

PLANT -IE INSPECTION

REPORT 78-26 Consumers

Power Company's

response to IE Inspection

Report 78-26 is as follows: Item (deficiency)

1. Palisades

Technical

Section 6.10.lc requires

of training and qualification

for members of plant staff to be retained for five years. Administrative

Procedure

13 delineates

specific training requirements

and records. Contrary to the above, records of training for severa.::i_

employees

did not exist in the following

areas: a. New employee training orientation

within two days of employment

as required Administrative

Procedure

13.1, Section 5.2a. b. Respiratory

protection

training for new employees

as required by Administrative

Procedure

13.l, Section 5.2c. c. Annual job-related

quality assurance

instruction

and beinnial training in use o-f -forklift, crane safety, sca-ffolding/rigging

as required by Administrative

Procedure

13.3.3, Attachment

13.3.3. d. Quarterly

job-related

Industrial/Fire

Safety Training as required by Administrative

Procedilre

13.3.6, Attachment

13.3.6. e. Semiannual

site em.e!'gencydrill

participation

as required by

tratiYe Procedure

13.4, Attachment

13.4b . DC:C 211918 7 9 o 1 1 7 o

at I I

2 Response:

Items la, lb, and ld: Corrective

Action Tak.en and Results Achieved:

The record of the new employee orientation

training was found and has been placed in the employee's

training record (Item la). The respiratory

protection*

indoctrination

training and quarterly

Industrial

Safety/Fire

Safety training were rescheduled

for the affected individuals

and their training records have been updated accordingly (Items lb and ld). * In addition, the training records of all prant employees

were audited to verify that the completion

of General Employee

and Special Employee Training has been properly documented.

Some discrepancies

were noted and will be corrected

by February 15, 1979. Corrective

Action to Prevent Recurrence:

The two principal

causes of this problem are: * Inadequate

audits of training records to detect documentation

errors. * Some training not being conducted

as scheduled.

To alleviate

the auditing problems, the following

courses of action are being considered.

Pne will be implemented.

Require the Training Department

to periodically

conduct audits of training records, or Strengthen

existi_ng

requirements

which have supervisors

conducting

these audits. To provide greater assurance

that traini_ng

will be conducted

as scheduled, the existing traini_ng

requirements

will be reviewed with appropriate

levels of supervision.

The supervisor's

role in assuring that their personnel

attend scheduled

training sessions will be reiterated.

Date When Full Compliance

will be Achieved:

The actions described

above will be carried out by February 15, 1979. Response:

Item le: Correction

Action Tak.en and Results Achieved:

The annual job-related

quality assurance

training requirement

was reviewed, and the determination

was made that this training is not necessary.

As a result, this training requirement

has been deleted. Forklift, crane safety, and scaffolding/ri_gging

training are conducted wide by a single department

within the Company. Because of certain programmatic

difficulties

in establishing

traini_ng

s.chedules, lesson plans, etc, this training

• 3 has fallen behind schedule.

To partially

alleviate

this situation

one individual

temporarily

assigned to the plant is being certified

to conduct crane safety ti-aining

to clear the backlog in this area. Corrective

Action to Prevent Recurrence:

The training schedules

and lesson plans for the remaim.ng

training (forklift

and scaffolding/rigging)

are near completion, and the backlog is expected to start clearing in early 1979. Date When Full Compliance

Will be Achieved:

The backlog in the above training is scheduled

to be cleared by June 1, 1979. Response:

Item le: A.review of the individual's

training record was conducted, and documentation

of the annual site emergency

training was found in the training record. This item appears to have been an error on the part of the inspector.

In view of this, and in view of the response to item (a) to correct the generic aspect of this problem, no other action is considered

necessary

with respect to this item. David P Hoffman Assistant

Nuclear Licensing

Administrator

CC: Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Director, Office of Inspection

and Enforcement