Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: be494cc1-5141-4685-8730-053728e9aace
Document Type: srp
Title: – 13.1.3  OPERATING ORGANIZATION
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070630.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.1.2
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o thin to provide effective supervision. For example, a single operations manager may have difficulty covering more than two units. For onshift persons, the total manpower available should be reviewed to assure ensure that in excess of five full operating shift crews are planned so that excessive overtime is not routinely scheduled for these crews. Additional staffing guidance may be found in NUREG-0711 (Reference 8), Chapter 6, "Element 5 - Staffing. For multi-unit sites, overall site responsibilities should be checked for 46 clarity during those periods of time when senior level supervision is not onsite. The operating organization, as demonstrated by organization charts and descriptions of functions and responsibilities, should be free of ambiguous assignments of primary responsibility. Operating responsibilities should be reasonably well defined in both numbers and experience of persons required to implement their responsibilities. The reviewer must recognize that there are many acceptable ways to define and delegate job responsibilities. Variations in staffing may also be expected between applicants who lack with and without prior experience with in nuclear plant operation and those who have such experience. It is important that the reviewer assure 47 himselfverify that applicants in the former categorylacking in experience do not underestimate 48 the magnitude of the task and that all applicants adequately consider the potential effects of human error. Guidance on human error considerations may be found in NUREG-0711, Chapter 7, "Element 6 – Human Reliability Analysis." The reviewer should be alert to the possibility 49 that excessive workloads may be placed upon too small a number of individuals. The structure of onsite technical support and maintenance groups may depend somewhat on headquarters staffing and the division of effort between onsite and offsite personnel. At the construction permit (CP) stageDuring the early stages of construction or plant