Facility Drill and Walk-Through Programs cont'd

DOE-HDBK-1118-99

Participation in a facility drill or walk-through may include being assigned as a monitor for

observing and evaluating personnel response to normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions.

Facility drills and walk-throughs should be structured to allow review and practice of actions

required to respond to normal, abnormal, and emergency facility conditions. Facility drills and

walk-throughs should involve the following:

Reviewing or implementing facility procedure steps

Performing or simulating actions required to establish stable facility conditions

Identifying equipment control locations and functions

Identifying expected facility instrumentation and alarm response

Including maintenance personnel, operations support, and technical staff

Practicing communications necessary to gather information or coordinate actions

Simulating adverse facility environments (e.g., no lighting, high noise, high radiation levels).

Each facility drill or walk-through must be carefully planned and monitored to evaluate

individual and team response. A review of facility and industry operating experiences should

provide examples of initiating cues, event sequences, and lessons learned that can be used

when developing scenarios. The drill or walk-through scenarios should include the following:

Statement to participants clarifying the objectives of the drill or walk-through, the

authority of the evaluators and the shift supervisor, and the requirement for adherence

to approved procedures

Precautions, including conditions under which the drill will be terminated

Reference materials

Prerequisites for initiation, including the need for safety monitors

Narrative summary of expected sequence

Provision for drill and walk-through critiques with participants

Performance tests.

Performance testing should be used during the drill or walk-through to evaluate employee

proficiency in the performance of assigned tasks. Performance deficiencies identified in the

critique should be reviewed by training and line management, and the results should be

provided to the employee. Additions or modifications to training programs required to correct