Quality Assurance Briefing

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Quality AssuranceBriefing

• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
• June 1, 2005
• Frank Russo
• Office of Corporate Performance Assessment
• Robert Loesch
• Office of Quality Assurance Programs

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Accomplishments Since Last Briefing

• QA implementation assessed for EM NE
• Weld quality alert field reviews in progress
• QA-related ORPS data preliminary analysis
  complete
• QA Order and Guides complete
• Filter Test Facility relocation progressing well
  HEPA standards update initiated

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QA Focus Areas

• Leadership
• Flow-down of Requirements
• Integration with ISM
• Implementation of Requirements
• Effective Analyses
• Oversight and Assessment

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Quality Assurance Leadership

• Technical Codes Standards participation
• ORPS manual being updated
• Ongoing Directives updates
• Enforcement Guide Supplement drafted Contractor
  Investigation, Causal Analysis and Corrective
  Actions
• DOE Assessment Guide update to incorporate EH-6
  enforcement guide and industry advances
• Working with EFCOG to develop interactive ways
  for delivering safety and QA guidance and lessons
  learned to workers the field

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Quality Assurance Leadership

• Communicating leadership in a QA newsletter
• First issue June 05
• Bridge between the various DOE organizations,
  sites, contractors, EFCOG, SMEs, standards
  committees, etc.
• Forum for exchange of ideas and success stories,
  sharing improvement techniques, approaches, and
  tools of the trade

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Flow-down of QA Requirements
Weld Quality Alert Results
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Flow-down of QA Requirements

• EH-1 memo to PSOs on flow-down of SQA
  requirements after DOE O 414.1C issued
• EFCOG QA deliverables
• Supplier Quality Improvement Initiative
  additional data needed
• Attributes of an Effective Quality Improvement
  Process
• Extent of Conditions Review (PAAA)
• Continuing evaluation of contract language

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Integration with ISM

• EM field assessments address integration of QA
  with ISM
• Idaho audit report ISM integral part
• 2004-1 Implementation Plan
• Oversight Manual
• Generic QA Assessment plan provided to the team
• QAP and ISM System Descriptions

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Quality Assurance Analysis

• ORPS data was evaluated to develop QA performance
  information
• 4 existing ORPS cause code categories used
• Design/Engineering
• Equipment/Material
• Communications
• Training
• Developing a baseline of QA performance
  information.

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Quality Assurance Analysis
Preliminary Assessment Results
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QA Oversight and Assessment

• HEPA Filter Test Facility Relocation
• Contract for FY05, options to extend for FY06,
  07, 08
• Contract requires a QAP
• Old facility shut down
• Construction oversight
• Pre-shipment of filters June 20
• Startup audit to be conducted
• Resume operations in July
• EH assumes responsibility in FY06
• EH published semi-annual FTF Report - May 25,
  2005

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QA Implementation Assessments
Calendar Year 2005
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Quality Assurance Leadership

• Technical Codes Standards leadership
• NQA-1 Executive Committee Member
• Applications Subcommittee Chair
• ISO 9001, U.S. Technical Advisory Group
  Technical Committee 176 ASQ Z-1 Committee
• IAEA Safety Requirements on Management Systems
• IEEE, Software Systems Engineering Standards
  Exec. Committee (DOE Liaison)
• ANS 10.4 Standards Committee
• ASME AG-1 Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment
  Committee
• NIST Council of Ionizing Radiation Measurements
  Standards
• ANSI N13 Accreditation Committee Member