Evaluation of Personnel

In finished product manufacturing areas, production personnel should be evaluated twice a year for their ability to maintain the sterility of the product by undergoing media fills where each employee manipulates sterile filling equipment and fills 300+ vials aseptically with sterile culture media. Additionally, personnel should be monitored daily for levels of contamination by ROD AC contact plates on fingers and other parts of the sterile gown. This requirement is becoming standard practice for bulk manufacturing personnel. 

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Appraisal costs Surveillance and monitoring of services and elements, used resources and tools for evaluation, measurements of relation to customer satisfaction, evaluation of personnel opinion. 

The information obtained will be used to evaluate safing activities, reentry for corrective action, and post-accident analyses. NADs collected from the field will be delivered to the Radiation Dosimetry Team for evaluation of personnel exposures. 

All basic elements except for a formal procedure for analysis of Phosphorus-32 activity in hair. To resolve this, an approved procedure, "Procedure for Analysis of Phosphorus-32 Activation in Hair," (Reference 41) was added to DPSOL 45-1, "Evaluation of Personnel Exposures in the Event of a Nuclear Incident" (Reference 42). 

WSRC, Interim Procedure, "Evaluation of Personnel Exposures in the Event... 

WSRC Quality Assurance Manual IQ (Reference 10) procedure QAP 2-5, Revision 0, provides the detailed requirements for compliance to DOE Order SR 5700.6C and NQA-1. This procedure specifies requirements and responsibilities for training, qualification, and certification of those WSRC independent inspection personnel who verify compliance of items, products, and activities to specified requirements. The procedure states that cognizant WSRC Quality Function (CQF) management is to perform an evaluation of personnel qualifications to determine the extent of formal and on-the-job training necessary to meet the independent inspector requirement. Formal core training programs for the qualification of independent inspectors are to be established and documented by the Site Quality. 

NDT has a very important formal status. Requirements for performanee of NDT, acceptance criteria and requirements for personnel qualification are implemented in codes and standards. The NDT procedure is part of the contract. During the many years that NDT methods have been used in industry a well-established situation has evolved, enabling the use of NDT for the evaluation of welds against Good Workmanship Criteria on a routine basis, thus maintaining workmanship standards and minimising the risks of component failure. 

An effective NDE program rehes heavily on periodic certification of the competence of its personnel (13,14). Certification programs designate levels of competence for all levels of personnel. Level I technicians are able to carry out instmctions in an NDE Level III supervisors are qualified to evaluate the needs of the test and devise a scheme that assures the desired level of quaUty or safety. 

Once the record of invention has been written, an evaluation of the invention should be undertaken. A careful evaluation of the record of invention is usually best completed by a committee of individuals from technical, commercial, and legal disciplines. It is important to include the viewpoint of those scientists working in the field, those commercial or sales people who will be responsible for selling any products which stem from the invention, and those individuals who may be able to offer a legal opinion given the insights of commercial and scientific personnel. 

A more recent OSHA development has been the availabihty of personnel from OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for consultation to identify, evaluate, and correct workplace ha2ards (20). 

The NRC also imposes special security requirements for spent fuel shipments and transport of highly enriched uranium or plutonium materials that can be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. These security measures include route evaluation, escort personnel and vehicles, communications capabiHties, and emergency plans. State governments are notified in advance of any planned shipment within their state of spent fuel, or any other radioactive materials requiring shipment in accident-proof. Type B containers. 

Operating experience has proven that unless a continuous program of required lubrication is followed, even the most well-designed units are sure to fail. A proper lubrication management program must incorporate a monthly lubrication schedule, an evaluation of new lubrication products, and supervision to ensure the prescribed procedures are carried out by maintenance personnel. 

The most common hazards control technique is a checklist. The checklist is prepared by experienced personnel who are familiar with the design, construction and operation of similar facilities. Checklists are relatively easy to use and provide a guide to the evaluator of items to be considered in evaluating hazards. API RP 14J has examples of two checklists which can be used to evaluate facilities of different complexity. Because production facilities are very similar and have been the subject of many hazard analyses, a checklist analysis to assure compliance with standard practice is recommended for most production facilities. The actual procedure by which the checklist is considered and the manner in which the evaluation is documented to assure compliance varies from case-to-case. 

Performance-influencing factors analysis is an important part of the human reliability aspects of risk assessment. It can be applied in two areas. The first of these is the qualitative prediction of possible errors that could have a major impact on plant or personnel safety. The second is the evaluation of the operational conditions under which tasks are performed. These conditions will have a major impact in determining the probability that a particular error will be committed, and hence need to be systematically assessed as part of the quantification process. This application of PIFs will be described in Chapters 4 and 5. 

The objective of emergency plaiuiing is to reduce the probability of serious loss due to a particular hazardous accident. The probability of an occurrence of a hazardous accident is first evaluated tlien it is assumed that, if the accident occurs, the worst consequences will follow (the so-called worst-case scenario). Procedures for liandliiig a particular accident are tlien developed and practiced, both to minimize the e.xposure of personnel and to prevent escalation of the origiiuil incident. 

The company was a private label manufacturer of home maintenance and personal care products. Its laboratory would be involved with new product development, evaluation of raw materials, testing of competitive products, and quality control. Laboratory personnel would also be responsible for chemical safety in the plant and for proper waste disposal. 

There is much concern for the safety of personnel handling articles contaminated with pathogenic viruses such as hepatitis B virus (HB V) and human immunodeficiency vims (HIV) which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Some agents have been recommended for disinfection of HBV and HIV depending on the circumstances and level of contamination these are hsted in Table 10.4. Disinfectants must be able to treat rapidly and reliably accidental spills of blood, body fluids or secretions from HIV infected patients. Such spills may contain levels of HIV as high as lO" infectious units/ml. Recent evidence Irom the Medical Devices Agency evaluation of disinfectants against HIV indicated that few chemicals could destroy the vims in a... 

Before electrochemical techniques are used in the evaluation of any situation involving microbes, tihe test protocol must receive considerable review by personnel quite experienced in both electrochemical testing and microbiologically influenced corrosion. It must be demonstrated that the method is capable of detecting and in some cases quantitatively measuring corrosion influenced by microbes. 

Building 5 is low occupancy and does not need to be considered for further evaluation, for the purposes of personnel protection. However, since Building 5 is critical to the long-term continued operation of the facility, the decision was made to keep it in the evaluation pool to see if business risks were created because of its location. 

Delineation of these three zones should be based on sampling and monitoring results and on an evaluation of the potential routes and amount of contaminant dispersion in the event of a release. Movement of personnel and equipment among these zones should be minimized and restricted to specific access control points to prevent cross-contamination from contaminated areas to clean areas. A decision for evaluating health and safety aspects of decontamination methods is presented in Figure 16.22.105... 

The chemical and physical compatibility of decontamination solutions or other decontamination materials must be determined before use. Any decontamination method that permeates, degrades, damages, or otherwise impairs the functioning of the personal protective equipment (PPE) is incompatible with such PPE and should not be used. If a decontamination method does pose a direct health hazard, measures must be taken to protect both decontamination personnel and the workers being decontaminated. Figure 16.22 presents a decision aid for the evaluation of health and safety aspects of decontamination methods. 

Evaluate the potential consequences associated with major and minor loss-of-containment events and other possible emergency situations involving the hazardous materials and energies ana take this information into account in the process of site selection and facility layout and the evaluation of the adequacy of personnel, public, and environmental protection (Source Models, Atmospheric Dispersion, Estimation of Damage Effects). 

The process of risk evaluation for personnel working with dyes and textile chemicals has been discussed in detail [69]. The more extensive the database covering toxicological, physical, chemical and application properties of the product, the easier it is to assess the risks involved. 

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