Developing an Emergency Procedures Writers' Guide: A Case Study

Conference · Thu Jul 18 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5780133

Ostrom, Lee T. ^[1]; Hill, Susan G. ^[1]; Close, James A. ^[1]; Lash, James D. ^[1]; Hemming, William C. ^[1]

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1. EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Three Mile Island Task Force identified the need for incorporating human factors and technical writing guidance into the development of function-oriented emergency operating procedures (EOPs). The NRC recommended that this guidance be contained in plant specific EOP writer's guides which should be developed by the plant for use by the plant's EOP developers (NUREG-0737 Supplement, 1982). Based on industry success with post-Three Mile Island procedure philosophy, Management of the Department of Energy's Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) facility made the decision to restructure their EOPs using the post-Three Mile Island guidelines and incorporating human factors principles into the process. To further enhance the procedures, ATR Management wanted to ensure the lessons learned by the NRC while inspecting commercial reactor facilities' EOPs were incorporated. To meet these goals a multi-disciplinary team was assembled and tasked with the development of the writers' guide and procedures. The process of developing the writer's guide included a needs assessment, gathering procedure writing information, deciding on the EOPs' format, writing the writers' guide, and then revising the writers' guide based on the outcome of the verification and validation of the procedures and operator feedback. The resulting EOP writers' guide contains state-of-the-art human factors guidance for writing procedures.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 5780133
• Report Number(s): EGG-M--90471; CONF-9107114--2; ON: DE91014091
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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