Establishing the Safety Infrastructure

W6: Workshop on Regulatory Inspection and Enforcement

(for late Phase 2 or early Phase 3 countries)

Objective

To provide information and guidance on the following sub-topics:

• Legal and regulatory framework for inspection and enforcement
• Development of a regulatory inspection programme
• Selection of areas of inspection
• Inspection of the management system
• Graded approach for inspections
• Types of inspections and inspection areas in to be conducted by the regulatory body during construction and operation of a nuclear power plant
• Approaches and methods for conduct of inspections
• Planning and organization of inspections, including workforce planning (competencies needed to conduct regulatory inspections effectively, use of external technical support for regulatory inspections)
• Development of internal-use procedures and guidelines for inspections
• Regulatory use of experience feedback with emphasis on NPP construction
• Qualification of inspectors
• Format and content of inspection reports
• Regulatory approach and oversight for staff of the licensee (constructor/vendor/operator) who hold key safety-related positions
• Management of enforcement actions, taking into consideration the level of penalty on the basis of severity of non-compliance
• Methods of enforcement; internal-use procedures regarding the enforcement process
• Factors in determining enforcement actions
• Administrative and legal issues concerning the enforcement process

To share experiences of some MS’s, which are in Phases 2 and 3 or beyond, in implementing the various regulatory approaches regarding safety review and assessment, regulatory inspections and enforcement; benefits and implications of those approaches.