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News Release from: HSE Health and Safety Executive | Subject: Nuclear installations consultation
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 April 2006
Consultation on nuclear safety
assessment
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is seeking views on revisions to its Safety Assessment Principles for nuclear installations.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is seeking views on revisions to its Safety Assessment Principles for nuclear installations Comments are invited by the end of May 2006
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The safety of a nuclear plant is the responsibility of the licensee, who is required to submit to HSE a written demonstration of safety, or safety case, which is periodically updated to reflect changing conditions.
The Safety Assessment Principles (SAPs) provide a framework for the technical judgements that HSE inspectors have to make to establish whether safety cases are adequate, thus ensuring a consistent approach to the assessment process.
HSE has ensured that the SAPS reflect up-to-date good practice worldwide by benchmarking them against International Atomic Energy Agency standards.
The review has also sought to make them relevant to decommissioning activities, which currently form the major focus of the restructured parts of the industry administered by the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency.
The revised SAPs provide important guidance on the application of reducing risks 'as low as reasonably' and contain new sections on radioactive waste management, decommissioning and contaminated land.
HSE considers that they will deliver more effective and efficient nuclear regulation, in line with the Health and Safety Commission's principles of transparency, proportionality and consistency.
HSE consulted the nuclear industry on early drafts of the new SAPS in 2005 and is now seeking wider public views.
The draft SAPs are available via HSE's website.
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