Technical Safety Requirement (TSR) Format and Content

Radiological Assessor Training

DOE-HDBK-1141-2001

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Technical Safety Requirement (TSR) Format and Content

Format/sections (hierarchy of requirements)

1. Use and Applications

2. Safety Limits

3. Operational Limits

4. Surveillance Requirements

5. Administrative Controls

6. Appendices

1. Use and application

This section should contain basic information and instructions for using

and applying the individual TSRs. Use and application include the

following elements:

Definitions (Specifically defined terms are

to appear in uppercase type throughout the TSR document.)

Operational Modes

Logicalk Connections

Completion Times

Frequency Notations

2. Safety Limits (SLs)

SLs should describe as precisely as possible the parameter being limited

and state the limit in measurable units.

a. Applicability

Each SL is to have a mode applicability statement.