Technical Skills Continuing Training

DOE-HDBK-1001-96

6.2 Technical Skills Continuing Training

Training that will maintain and develop technical skills and ensure knowledge of job responsibilities

should be provided to all personnel who act as technical instructors. This training should include

attending or instructing applicable portions of the operator/technician/craft continuing training and

structured in-facility time observing and/or participating in appropriate activities. In-facility activities

should be planned in advance using established objectives and should consider current facility

opportunities.

Instructors who provide facility-specific training should be kept current on facility and industry events

and changes. Generic knowledge deficiencies and performance weaknesses should be included as

continuing training topics. Any instructor with specific technical skill deficiencies should receive

training to correct the problem(s).

Instructors at DOE Category A reactors who teach subjects such as technical safety requirements,

operating practice, and control manipulations to certified reactor operators and senior reactor

operators should receive the continuing training necessary to maintain their technical skills at, or

equivalent to, the senior reactor operator level. This training should include portions of the senior

reactor operator continuing training, completing specific in-facility activities, and spending appropriate

time (acting as a member of an operating crew) on the simulator. Structured in-facility time should

maintain the instructor's familiarity with facility configuration, watchstation requirements and practices,

and procedural and administrative guidance.

Instructors who teach integrated facility response at DOE non-reactor nuclear facilities should receive

the continuing training necessary to maintain their technical skills at, or equivalent to, the senior

operator level.

Instructors of certified reactor operators and senior reactor operators who instruct topics other than

those listed above, and instructors of other facility operators (both reactor and non-reactor), should

maintain and develop the technical skills necessary to perform their job. These instructors should

keep abreast of facility administrative practices and be familiar with the education and experience

level of their trainee population. They may accomplish this by attending operations meetings and

observing incumbent work activities.