Technic of Operations Review

To promote learning about incident investigation, Ferry wrote extensively about and suggested inquiry into System Safety, Change Analysis, The MORT Process, Multilinear Events Sequencing, and D. A. Weaver s Technic of Operations Review. 

Hallock, R. G., Technic of Operations Review Analysis Determine Cause of Accident/Incident, Safety and Health, Vol. 60, No. 8,1991, pp. 38-39,46. 

In 1987, D. A. Weaver developed the Technic of Operations Review (TOR) (Ferry, 1988). It was designed to uncover management oversights and omissions instead of hardware or operator problems. The four steps of a TOR analysis are state, trace, eliminate, and seek. 

At larger sites, it is sometimes more efficient for two reviewers to interview candidate toller personnel. In general, the senior site manager should be involved in the interview session unless the toller s facility is extremely large with several layers of operations management. It is assumed interviews will include the toller s technical personnel or specialists related to the proposed toll. 

Concurrent with the beginning of construction of the baseline incineration facility at JACADS in 1987, the Army requested that the National Research Council (NRC) review and evaluate the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) and provide scientific and technical advice and counsel. The NRC established the standing Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee), one of whose early reports was a study of operational verification testing at JACADS prior to the start of agent disposal operations. In the intervening years, the Stockpile Committee produced 27 reports on various aspects of the CSDP. ... 

Proper production process execution and performance of analytical procedures relies on comprehensive, clearly stated, and unambiguous documentation. This is necessary whether the document is used to initiate an activity (e.g., process, method, work instruction) or contains results that will be reviewed by someone else. A master batch record that can be easily misinterpreted by trained operators is a serious source of process variability. Similarly, if the analytical method is not written in a clear, concise, and sufficiently detailed manner, interpretation may be different from analyst to analyst, also resulting in higher than expected variability and perhaps an OOS result. Process and analytical documentation should be written with the user in mind and authored by individuals with intimate familiarity with the task to be carried out. The written procedures should be concise or crisp, yet contain sufficient technical detail to lead trained operators and analysts through the same set of operations with the outcome being the same when applied to the same material(s). 

Other remaining technical concerns with membrane cells relate to somewhat lower current efficiencies and to relatively short membrane lifetimes. At present, this is limited to 2-3 year of operation when coupled to much more careful brine pretreatment than is required for conventional asbestos diaphragm cells. A combination of mercury cell and membrane cell technologies has been recently tested for commercial feasibility [19]. The economics of the three primary chloralkali technologies have also been reviewed [20]. 

The Technical Committee Meeting (TCM) on Unusual Occurrences During LMFR Operation Review of Experience and Consequences for Reactor Systems was held on the recommendation of the International Working Group on Fast Reactors (IWGFR) at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna from 9 to 13 November 1998. Participants from nine countries (China, France, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) were in attendance. 

HCF procedure development maintains consistency by follow/ing the TA-V Nuclear Facilities Conduct of Operations Manual (SNL 1998a) and the SNL ES H Manual (SNL 1998b). These documents describe procedure format and content, including Purpose, Scope, Ownership, Responsibilities, Definitions and Acronyms, Hazard Identification, Equipment and Materials, Format, Review and Approval Authority, and Document Control. Use of this format complies with DOE Order 5480.19, Conduct of Operations, Chapter 16 (DOE 1990). TA-V Standard Operating Procedures are written for tasks specifically identified in the Technical Safely Requirements (TSR) or as required by other directives or the SNL ES H manual to address special hazards. TA-V document types and hierarchy is described in TA-V Nuclear Facilities Conduct of Operations Manual (SNL 1998a) Chapter 16. 

Review, map and describe the technical safety condition of operated facihties, offshore and onshore. 

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