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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ogram. These procedures are to reflect the QA policy, and work is to be accomplished in accordance with them. 4. Authority a. When the applicant delegates responsibility for planning, establishing, or implementing any part of the overall QA program, sufficient authority to accomplish the assigned responsibilities also is to be delegated. b. Responsibility and authority to stop unsatisfactory work and control further processing, delivdry, installation, or use of nonconforming items (such as structures, systems, components, parts, materials, equipment, consumable materials, and software) is to be assigned by the applicant such that cost and schedule considerations do not override safety considerations. 5. Personnel Training and Qualification a. Personnel assigned to implement elements of the QA program are to be capable of performing their assigned tasks. b. Training programs to ensure that personnel achieve and maintain suitable proficiency are to be established and implemented. c. Personnel training and qualification records are to be maintained. 17.3-5 Rev. 0 - August 1990 6. Corrective Action a. Plant management, at all levels, is to foster a "no- fault" attitude toward the identification of conditions that are adverse to quality, such as failures, malfunctions, nonconformances, and out-of-control processes including the failure to follow procedures. b. A corrective action program is to be established and implemented that includes prompt identification, documentation, classification, cause analysis, correction of the conditions, elimination of the cause of significant conditions, and followup of conditions that are adverse to quality. The program is to include provisions that ensure that corrective actions are not inadvertently nullified by subsequent actions. c. Specific responsibilities within the corrective action program may be delegated, but the applicant is to maintain responsibility for the program's effectiveness. d. Nonconforming items (those that do not