Probabilistic Risk Assessment

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C Prepare the individual to cope with personnel matters, such as the following:

- staffing issues

- motivation of personnel and creating a motivating work atmosphere

- dealing with differing personalities

- establishing and demonstrating high standards of job performance

- using performance appraisal systems effectively

- providing career counseling

- conflict resolution

- dealing with chronic and acute stress

- dealing effectively with subordinates

C Improve the individual's communication skills in such areas as the following:

- interpersonal communication

- oral and written communications

- praising and reprimanding

- directing

- listening

- conducting meetings

- conducting shift briefings

C Enhance the individual's ability to make decisions, such as the following:

- problem analysis and decision making

- establishing priorities

- predetermining alternatives for normal and emergency operations

- anticipating and responding to stress-induced reactions

- planning and organizing.

3.2.2

Probabilistic Risk Assessment

For those facilities for which a Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) has been

performed, initial and continuing training programs should include the principal results of

the PRA. The training should address the following:

C The importance of facility systems in preventing damage or severe accidents

C The probabilistic basis for defining magnitudes and compositions of potential

releases of radionuclides (or other toxic materials) and consequences of potential

releases in terms of facility worker and offsite population health effects

C Dominant types of potential operational accidents as defined in terms of frequency

and consequences

C Locations of all significant amounts of radioactive and other hazardous materials,

and measures to prevent their release

C The importance of maintaining operational limits and conditions, and the

consequences of violating those limits

C Identification of potential hardware failures and human errors which constitute

dominant contributors to important accident sequences