The review was conducted by D. Owen, J. Preston, C. Miller, and outside expert D. Boyd. The DOE-OAK RA Team adequately identified significant issues that must be addressed prior to restart of the facility. However, final reports of these RAs have not been issued at this time. LLNL has developed and implemented numerous new and upgraded processes, policies, and training packages to implement SRs since April 1995, in accordance with their restart corrective action plan. While progress has been made in implementing approved procedures for SRs, the DOE-OAK RA Team identified deficiencies with configuration management, conduct of operations, and management commitment and control.
Further action appears necessary to put in place a truly integrated safety management system.
LLNL's corrective action plan for SR implementation appropriately covered these areas. The Building 332 SAR was approved and made effective by DOE-OAK on March 6, 1995. However, at the time the SAR was made effective, LLNL did not have a system in place to ensure that all the SAR requirements would or could be met. However, LLNL's analysis of the root cause of the management breakdown was flawed in that it does not acknowledge that the SAR should not have been made effective without the assurance that the surveillance requirements and administrative controls contained in the SAR were implemented into procedures and personnel trained for those procedures. These important initiatives are in the early stages of implementation and progress has clearly been made.