Use of Operating Experience

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assurance or a corporate support/oversight group, should be considered when

determining actions in response to deficient conditions identified by these

organizations. Corrective actions should be tracked by management until

completion.

Responsible managers and supervisors should be held accountable for the

timely and effective implementation of corrective actions. Delays in the

completion of approved corrective actions should be brought to the attention of

the responsible manager who assigned the corrective actions. An escalation

process should provide higher levels of management attention to problem areas

for which corrective action continues to be ineffective.

U se of Operating Experience

Programs should be in place to ensure the timely review of operating

experience to incorporate lessons learned into maintenance programs and

practices. Reviews should include in-house and external industry events.

Management should use industry operating experience and in-house events as a

mechanism for assessing performance to determine the root causes of problems.

Mechanisms should also be in place to ensure that significant in-house events

are promptly provided to the industry for use by other plants.

Another aspect of operating experience involves visits to or communications

with other plants. Maintenance division managers, supervisors, and workers

should take opportunities to visit and communicate with other plants both to

help solve specific problems and to learn different approaches to the routine

business of operating plants.

4.3.4 Management Control of Plant Configuration

Management should ensure that plant configuration, including the manner in

which the plant is maintained, conforms to the established design basis requirements.

Many routine activities, if carried out improperly, can have an adverse impact on

plant configuration and cause eventual equipment damage or increase the probability

or consequences of a significant event. Effective control of plant configuration

requires rigorous attention to detail as well as the understanding and commitment of

every member of the maintenance organization to observe and report/record material

condition assessment status.