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Finally, administrative policies should be examined to ensure that personnel responsibilities are

clearly defined regarding monitoring process activities and taking corrective action for abnormal

conditions. In addition, personnel training material could be reviewed to ensure these

responsibilities and required actions are covered in the curriculum.

6.14 Assessing Required Reading.

6.14.1 Discussion. The Required Reading Program provides a means to communicate

information to operations personnel that is related to their job assignment. The program is

intended for management's use to ensure that operators receive current and appropriate job

assignment information. One would expect management to use this system to provide

information that operators might receive in recurring training, but requiring operators to read all

DOE Directives is not what is intended by this area of conduct of operations. Large volumes of

reading will dilute the significance of important information and most likely will preclude the

reading of all assignments by some personnel. Some examples of what should be included in the

required reading program are :

Lessons Learned from the DOE complex

Industry standards

Company memos that are of concern to operations personnel but have not been forwarded to

them

Operations procedure change summaries (not the complete, revised operating procedure)

The items that are included in the required reading program should be listed in an administrative

policy or procedure.

6.14.2 Preparing to Assess Required Reading. To develop an assessment plan for Required

Reading, assessors should first review the activity-specific graded-approach document for

conduct of operations and determine which guidelines are applicable at the activity. This will