Idaho National Laboratory Emergency Management SelfAssessment Program

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Idaho National Laboratory Emergency Management
Self-Assessment Program
James D. Colson Manager Emergency Management
Implementation
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Idaho National Laboratory
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INL Integrated Assessment System(IAS)

• Emergency Management assessment program
  incorporated into the INL IAS and includes
• Covers Emergency Management and Fire Department
• Includes
• Management Reviews
• Management Assessments
• Inspections
• Operational Functional Checks
• Performance Analyses

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Emergency Management Assessments On Site
Off Site

• CFA
• INTEC
• RWMC
• TAN
• TMI 2
• RTC
• MFC
• SMC

• Science Technology Complex (19 Bldgs)
• Ft. St. Vrain Weld County, CO.
• Transportation
• ELEMENTS
• Base Plan
• INL EOC
• Emergency Medical Services
• Security Interfaces
• Emergency Public Information
• Legend INL ICP NRC
• BEA CH2M-Hill

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Emergency Management Assessments

• Assessment Scheduling
• Each element/facility is assessed every third
  year
• Assessment Criteria
• DOE Guide 151.1.1
• 466 Criteria
• Compliance and Performance Based
• Criteria sorted with respect to applicability to
  each facility or element.

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Self Assessment Coordinator

• Emergency Management Self Assessment Coordinator
• Coordinating Emergency Services Assessments
• Emergency Management
• Fire Department
• Duties include
• Planning,
• Scheduling
• Report development
• Issue Tracking
• Performance Measurement

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Assessment Findings

• Screening Process
• Performed by qualified screener and EM Manager
• If finding is a procedure violation
• Entered into Issue Communication And Resolution
  Environment (ICARE)
• Site wide tracking system
• If finding is not an ICARE issue
• Observation or
• Work Group Task (WGT)

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Performance Analysis

• Issues analysis
• Reported quarterly
• Externally Identified
• Time to closure
• Overdue Issues
• Due Date Extensions
• Reoccurrence/Repeat Issues
• Effectiveness of Closure

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INL Emergency Management Assessments

• Strengths
• Assessments are comprehensive in addressing each
  DOE G 1501.1.1 criteria
• Result in a thorough document review
• Effective compliance based results
• Weaknesses
• Weighted towards compliance based results
• Performance based results occur only when drill,
  exercise and actual response reports are available

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Shifting to Performance Based EM Assessments at
the INL

• INL Senior Management Expectations and Guidance
• Assessment must be value added
• Focus on process vs. paper
• Bureaucracy can get in the way of doing the right
  thing
• Performance Based
• More difficult to conduct
• More value-added

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Performance Based EM Assessments

• Performance based assessments could be
• Assessments of drills
• If actions that resulted in controller/trainer
  intervention were documented
• Assessment of exercises
• If exercise evaluators were separate from
  controllers and
• Report is developed separate from drill control
  team rerport.