Daily Schedules

DOE-STD-1050-93

Major radiological protection actions, such as installation of temporary shielding,

should be scheduled events.

Major support activities, such as scaffolding erection, should be adequately defined

in the schedule.

For minor jobs, some plants have been successful in identifying support requirements,

such as tagging and radiation work permit (RWP) requirements, within the coding

structure for activities in the schedule. When this is done, it is very important that

sufficient training and familiarization be given to enable personnel to interpret the

coding easily. It has generally been found necessary to explicitly schedule the support

needed for major tasks rather than use only activity coding. A sufficient number of

activities should be scheduled to ensure the short-term visibility needed for work

coordination and progress tracking. Milestones should be defined for the completion

of logical collections of tasks. Use of these intermediate milestones may provide an

overall measure of the progress of maintenance activities and identify tasks

significantly behind schedule.

Management may then take appropriate corrective

action.

Associating detailed work lists to a single activity in the schedule, rather than explicitly

scheduling start dates for each job, has proven useful. This provides visibility of details

but permits the individual tasks to be managed by the responsible departments and/or

first-line supervisors. This is only successful, however, when a particular sequence of

completing the work is not required, the support and interface requirements are minor,

and a strong daily schedule and good communications exist. Note that the completion

of the individual jobs should be closely monitored and progress tracked or there is a risk

that delays in completion of one or more of the jobs may result in major schedule

delays.

3.5.4 Daily Schedules

Daily schedules are important to ensure that work is properly coordinated even when

there may be last-minute schedule changes. A daily schedule is generally used as the

basis for discussions at daily meetings. The daily schedule may be generated by the

computerized scheduling program itself or developed separately from information

contained in the scheduling program data base.

A three-day look-ahead schedule issued daily has proven useful at many plants. This

schedule provides the detail necessary to control the present day's work and provides

an opportunity for craft planning for the next few days without an

unreasonable amount of data. Extending the look-ahead period longer than about five

days and not issuing the schedule on a daily basis increases the risk that data may not

be current when needed.