The USA Performance Improvement Core Peer Team is taking a leading role in responding to the INPO cumulative impacts initiative. For a coordinated approach, the team is implementing actions to resolve issues identified in the Corrective Action Program at the USA fleet plants.
INPO published a guidance document, “Industry Cumulative Impact Short-Term Actions,” to address the nuclear industry’s over reliance on additional procedures, processes and meetings to resolve performance shortfalls. Cumulative impacts efforts have been identified as being necessary in the areas of:
- Management and Leadership
- Human Performance
- Corrective Action Program
- Work Management
Actions are being taken to reduce the cumulative impact of improvement initiatives, process controls and inappropriate behavior norms. These are found to impede the effectiveness of plant supervisors and managers and detract resources from important aspects of plant operation and maintenance.
The USA Performance Improvement Core Peer Team will lead implementation of these actions to address the cumulative impacts to CAP. Short term actions to improve CAP across the USA fleet plants are:
- Define what needs to be done in the CAP and reduce the CAP backlog through alignment across the USA Fleet with the INPO Industry Cumulative Impact Short Term Actions.
- Reduce Corrective Actions created by reducing the number of low-value corrective actions assigned to an issue.
- Manage actions in other processes by tracking and completing corrective actions that are not adverse to quality and utilizing other processes where appropriate.
- Analyze fewer individual issues and more in aggregate by reducing the number of single issues evaluated and increasing the number of aggregate issues evaluated.
As a fleet, these initiatives will help to improve the effectiveness of our CAP processes and reduce administrative burdens for the USA plants. The USA Business Plan has actions due quarterly to ensure the above actions are implemented effectively.