Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: cd56bdba-c3ad-487c-9736-aba8587452af
Document Type: srp
Title: QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0523/ML052350376.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 17
Section ID: 17.3
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ram is to be established and implemented to control the calibration, maintenance, and use of measuring and test equipment. b. The types of equipment covered by the program (such as instruments, tools, gages, reference and transfer standards, and nondestructive examination equipment) are to be defined. c. Measuring and test equipment is to be calibrated at specified intervals (or immediately before and after use) on the basis of the item's required accuracy, intended use, frequency of use, and stability characteristics and other conditions affecting its performance. d. Measuring and test equipment is to be labeled, tagged, or otherwise controlled to indicate its calibration status and to ensure its traceability to calibration test data. e. Measuring and test equipment is to be calibrated against standards that have an accuracy of at least four times the required accuracy of the equipment being calibrated or, when this is not possible, have an accuracy that ensures the equipment being calibrated will be within the required tolerance. 17.3-11 Rev. 0 - August 1990 f. If nationally recognized standards exist, calibration standards are to be traceable to them. Except where calibration standards with the same accuracy as the instruments being calibrated are shown to be adequate for the requirements, calibration standards are to have a greater accuracy than the standards being calibrated. g. Measuring and test equipment found out of calibration is to be tagged or segregated and not used until it is recalibrated. The acceptability of items measured, inspected, or tested with an out-of-calibration device is to be determined. 10. Inspection, Test, and Operating Status a. As applicable, inspection, test, and operating status of items is to be verified before their release, fabrication, receipt, installation, test, and use to preclude inadvertent bypassing of inspections and tests and to prevent inadvertent operation. b. The application and removal of status indicators and other