The DOE Procedures Program (continued)

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The DOE Procedures Program (continued)

The procedure guidance documents are in various stages of preparation and review.

Some, such as this Writer's Guide for Technical Procedures, are already available to DOE

personnel as a standard. Documents currently under development include:

Principles for Excellence in Procedure Writing: This document presents the

fundamental principles associated with writing sound procedures. The principles

provide a basis for understanding how to develop and evaluate procedure formats

and writing style. Therefore, the Principles serve as a means for each facility to

confirm the adequacy and appropriateness of the writer's guides developed for the

facility's procedure writers.

Writer's Guides: Three separate writer's guides are being developed, one for each

of the three major procedure types: technical procedures, emergency and alarm

response procedures, and management control procedures. An appendix to the

Writer's Guide for Technical Procedures and the Writer's Guide Emergency and

Alarm Response Procedures will cover the use of graphics in procedures. The

guides are model writer's guides, rather than requirements documents, and provide

examples of writer's guides that meet DOE requirements. Each of the guides

provides a basic explanation of the technical, management control, and design

bases for that procedure type, and then provides detailed sections on content and

format.

Principles for Excellence in Procedures Programs: This document presents the

fundamental principles associated with managing an on-going procedures program.

It defines the purposes procedures serve in facility operations as well as the

program elements and processes required for an effective procedures program.

Manager's Guides: Four separate manager's guides are being developed. The

Guides will cover four important functions: developing procedure bases; technical

review of procedures; validation and verification of procedures; and, procedure

implementation and control. The Guides will provide managers with explanations

of the requirements and processes associated with successful completion of these

functions.

As is shown in Figure 2, the above documents provide for both product enhancement

(better procedures) and system enhancement (better procedures programs). As experience

in applying these documents is gained throughout the DOE complex, the documents will

be revised on the basis of lessons learned. Additional guidance documents also may be

published as the need arises.

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