Role and responsibilities of study personnel

The Study Director must prepare a study plan and carry out the following duties  

The Principal Investigator must ensure that the delegated phases of the study are 

Individual test site management (if appointed) will have the responsibilities set out in items 2-6, 8, 11-14, 16, and 17. 

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Detailed design can proceed when the above items have been considered and agreement has been reached on those important to the study. At this point, the roles and responsibilities of study personnel can be defined, development of commodity collection strategies can proceed, and consideration of measurement and reporting methods can begin. 

It is important that the proposed HAZOP team is made up of personnel who will bring the best balance of knowledge and experience, of the type of plant being considered, to the study. Table 1.2 outlines the typical minimum requirements of the proposed workshop team and corresponding roles and responsibilities. 

You should consider obtaining internal and external quality assurance reviews of the study (to ferret out errors in modeling, data, etc.). Independent peer reviews of the QRA results can be helpful by presenting alternate viewpoints, and you should include outside experts (either consultants or personnel from another plant) on the QRA review panel. You should also set up a mechanism wherein disputes between QRA team members (e.g., technical arguments about safety issues) can be voiced and reconciled. All of these factors play an essential role in producing a defendable, high-quality QRA. Once the QRA is complete, you must formally document your response to the project team s final report and any recommendations it contains. 

Another supportive role that management must accept is the provision for additional resources when QAU responsibilities are increased either by management, by revised or new regulations, or by increased study workloads. Such resources include personnel, office space, equipment, clerical support, etc. Management must continually review and balance the allocation of resources to the quality assurance and scientific study areas to efficiently operate with the desired level of quality. 

Most Western assessments appear to accept that the role of the VKhV is defensive and technical. Professor John Erickson - no sceptic on the subject of the Soviet CBW capability - states, The chemical warfare troops do not themselves wage chemical warfare that is, they are not responsible for the delivery of chemical munitions .Charles Dick, of the Soviet Studies section at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, describes their role as reconnaissance, monitoring radioactive contamination of personnel, decontamination of troops, equipment and terrain, and other special measures . (This covers smoke and incendiaries.) He stresses that their task runs wider than the basics of defence against chemical weapons Soviet chemical troops have the task of increasing the Soviet Army s ability to survive the effects of weapons of mass destruction of all kinds, nuclear, chemical or biological (bacteriological). " This is borne out by the remarks of General Manets referred to above. 

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