1. ISM at the Savannah River Site
Department of Energy Best Practices Workshop
Configuration Management
Rich Salizzoni, Manager
Engineering Standards Department
Washington Savannah River Company
September 12-13, 2006
Within the last 15 years the nuclear industry has done a good job in implementing what is known as Human Performance. And as many in here know, many of these utilities have demonstrated dramatic improvements in performance resulting from these initiatives.
As a result, many facilities here at Savannah River have developed programs intended on implementing Human Performance initiatives modeled after the commercial nuclear industry. And while I don’t know this for a fact, I suspect that these facilities have seen similar improvements in performance.
And so Human Performance is not new at SRS. Many of you have implemented Human Performance programs and could easily be up here presenting. What is new is the fact that the Site is ready to take Human Performance on and integrate it with many of our existing systems. The Site is ready to embrace the HP concepts and values and institutionalize them into our culture.
So let me briefly explain what Human Performance is and then describe what the Site will do over the next several months…

2. Configuration Management
Typically:
Today’s Presentation:
Configuration Management of Engineering Programs/Processes
Centralized through Web-Link Driven Engineering Web Page
System
Boundaries
Functional
Classification
of SSCs
Labeled
Components
Master
Equipment
List (MEL)
Plant
Documents
(Technical
Baseline)
SSC-to
Document
Cross-Reference 2

3. SRS Engineering Web Page
E7 - Conduct of Engineering
<< Engineering Home Page
SRS Engineering Web Page 3

4. SRS Engineering Manual
Used to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and national codes/standards requirements
Used sitewide to promote consistency
Provides hot-linked flowcharts which virtually integrate 30+ manuals and 50+ forms
Provides a graded/tailored approach to Integrated Safety Management (ISM):
“The practice of specifying requirements, design attributes, and operating strategies that result in safe and successful DOE mission accomplishment at minimum cost.” 4

5. SRS Engineering Manual (Contd.)
Table of Contents
Section Administrative
Section Commercial Design
Section Nuclear Design
Section Operations Technical Support
Section Safety Documentation
Transferred to 11Q Facility Safety Document Manual.
Section Software Engineering & Control 5

6. SRS Engineering Organization
Site Chief Engineer
Small Programmatic Engineering Organization
Chief Engineers in each Facility
Report directly to Facility Management
Dotted line to Site Chief Engineer
Supporting “Technical Agency” Organizations
Fire Protection, Radiological Technology, Safeguards & Security, Industrial Hygiene, etc. 6

7. SRS Engineering Processes
Governed by Committee (Operating Facility Engineering representatives)
Automated by Intergraph AIM/SmartPlant Foundation System
Integrated with Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Operations, Nuclear Safety, D&D Organizations 7

8. Engineering Roles, Responsibilities, Accountabilities, and Authorities (R2A2)
Quickly identifies engineering responsibilities in E7 Engineering Manual as well as other Site Manuals (Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Operations, Facility Safety Documents, D&D, etc.)
Proceduralized/Controlled through E7 Manual Responsibilities Procedure 8

9. Engineering R2A2 E7 - Conduct of Engineering 9
<< Engineering Home Page
Engineering R2A2 9

10. Engineering Standard Nomenclature Database
E7 - Conduct of Engineering
<< Engineering Home Page
Engineering Standard Nomenclature Database 10

11. Engineering Awareness Briefings
E7 - Conduct of Engineering
<< Engineering Home Page
Engineering Awareness Briefings 11

12. Engineering Navigator Tool
Electronic Flowchart w/hot links
Quickly identifies appropriate change control document based on graded approach categories
Navigates through multiple manuals, procedures, and forms to define modification process in one place
Proceduralized/Controlled through E7 Manual Overview Procedure 12

13. Engineering Navigator Tool (Contd.)
E7 - Conduct of Engineering
<< Engineering Home Page
Engineering Navigator Tool (Contd.) 13

14. System Engineer Handbook
Online access to “What a System Engineer Should Know”
Quickly identifies, by subject area, where pertinent information is located
Used by management as a walk-down tool to assess Engineers’ level of knowledge
Can be printed as Handbook or Walk-down Checklist 14

15. System Engineer Handbook (Contd.)
E7 - Conduct of Engineering
<< Engineering Home Page
System Engineer Handbook (Contd.) 15

16. Other Tools
Matrix identifying additional controls for Safety Significant and Safety Class Modifications
Procedure Change Request Log
Waivers
Engineering Automation Issues Log
System Health Database 16

17. Other Tools (Contd.) Engineering Codes and Standards SafetyNet
Applicability Matrix
Standards Technical Committee & Board
Engineering Forum
SafetyNet
Safety Basis Documents
Linking Documents
Engineering Newsletters 17

18. Summary
Centralized through an Engineering Web Page – “web-link driven”
Virtually integrates Engineering with other disciplines (Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Operations, Nuclear Safety, etc.)
Provides timely support to SRS Engineering Community
Recognized by Office of Independent Oversight as noteworthy to be used as positive example for the complex 18

19. SRS Contacts
Site Chief Engineer – Fred Beranek (803)
Engineering Standards Manager – Rich Salizzoni (803)
Codes & Standards Lead – Larry Suttinger (803)
Specifications/Suspect Parts Lead – Tony Hawkins (803)
Conduct of Engineering Lead – Elaine Doolittle (803) 19