Regulatory inspections increasing number

The maintenance programme and operational tasks should be defined, preferably on the basis of well established concepts. The number of staff for each task should be based only on the operational requirements and should not be artificially increased to comply with the regulatory requirements or the dose constraints. For tasks for which doses are predicted to be relatively minor, the work can be expressed generically in terms of the number of person-hours that will be spent in each radiation zone. The type of worker who will perform each task is also identified. Types of worker include maintenance personnel, in-service inspection personnel, electrical staff, support staff (e.g. scaffolders), decontamination staff and health physics staff. 

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