SELF ASSESSMENT

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SELF ASSESSMENT

• WELCOME
• Mark Whale
• DSRL
• Dounreay

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• Self Assessment Required by GS-R-3
• Written Objective
• To ensure that the Safety, Health and
  Environmental performance of facilities are
  subject to periodic self-assessment and
  independent review and that any conditions
  limiting the Authority to Operate (ATO) are
  identified.
• Wider Objective
• Supports good Safety Culture by reinforcing
• Ownership / Leadership of plant, systems and
  staff.
• Questioning Attitude,
• Continual Improvement
• Objectives achieved by the Senior Plant Managers
  review of
• Their SHEQ Management System.
• Their plant Safety Case and supporting rules,
  instructions, etc.
• Their SHEQ performance.
• Number of and competence of their Staff.
• The physical state of their Plant.
• Actively seeking improvements to their
  arrangements.

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• Background History
• The Authority to Operate (ATO) Process at DSRL
• Self Assessment Development
• Where we are today

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• ATO Renewals
• Review of all aspects of ATO Facilities
• Emphasis on self-monitoring to produce annual
  report
• Evidence reviewed by Independent Assessor
• Review of safety documentation, waste arisings,
  environmental discharges, maintenance, records
  etc.

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• ATOs are issued initially following production
  and approval of safety cases and implementation
  plans, ATOs are not issued until safety controls
  and safety management arrangements to affect the
  safety case are in place.
• ATOs include the identification of a programme of
  self-assessment activities to provide assurance
  that the safety, health and environmental (SHE)
  risks are being effectively monitored and
  controlled for the ATO period.

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• Aim to commence Self Assessment Report (SAR)
  review 3 months prior to ATO Certificate expiry
  date or as soon as possible after the ATO
  reporting review period.
• Pre-meeting. The ATO Holder and/or representative
  to agree the menu content of their SAR with an
  Independent Assessment representative.

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• The SAR is prepared in a typical report style
  with flowing text (i.e. not in constant tabular
  form).
• Appropriate graphical and tabular information may
  be included to assist clarity.

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• In production of the SAR, the author is
  encouraged to self-generate (where appropriate),
  Actions/Recommendations in the Report. The
  Actions will thereafter be entered, by the local
  plant management, in their self-selected Action
  Tracking system.
• If there are significant issues the Assessor can
  raise formal Corrective Actions.
• In all cases actions are checked for progress
  during the following review period.

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• Independent Assessor
• Checks compliance with the required/stipulated
  Self Assessment Report (SAR) content list.
• Checks compliance with supporting evidence
  supplied in the Information Pack.
• Makes a random selection of the related topics to
  further check validity e.g. risk assessments,
  operating instructions, event reports etc.
• Contacts Facility Advisors (Radiological
  Protection, Industrial Safety Environmental) to
  establish any issues they may have for the
  facility.

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• Independent Assessor physically tours the
  facility ATO (inside and out) to establish if the
  general condition of the facility maps the tone
  and contents of the SAR. The tour to includes
  discussions with facility based personnel e.g.
  operators and supervisors.

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• The Self Assessment report formally records and
  reports the documented review undertaken.
• The documented review is passed to the facility
  ATO Holder to arrange the comments and
  observations to be formally addressed
• On return of the documented review from the ATO
  Holder the review is closed out and
  recommendations made on renewing the ATO.
• The fully completed electronic documented
  Close-Out report is returned to the ATO Holder
  for including in the Self Assessment Report.

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• Thank You
• Questions?