Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Nuclear
LLC reports
This report is issued as part of the Health and Safety Executive's commitment to make information about inspection and regulatory activities relating to the above site available to the public. It is for distribution to members of the Amersham plc, Grove Centre Local Liaison Committee (LLC) and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at the site. These reports are distributed quarterly. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate attend LLC meetings and will be happy to respond to questions raised there by members of the LLC. Any other person wishing to inquire about matters covered by this report should contact the HSE, Nuclear Directorate Information Centre on 0151 - 951 - 4103.
Visits by the NII to the Grove Centre site were made on 16 - 18 April and 13 - 14 June 2002.
The annual review of safety meeting was held during the period. The meeting was attended by the NII Superintending Inspector and Site Inspector and senior managers from Amersham nuclear licensed sites. The meeting is the forum at which the licensee reports to the regulator on progress on safety matters. It also provides an opportunity for discussing the licensee's future activities and programmes and it gives NII the opportunity to raise important safety matters and promote improvements in the licensee's safety performance. For the Grove Centre site NII emphasised the following; the continued importance of the licensee revising and reviewing it's arrangements for meeting the requirements of the Site Licence, the importance of reducing worker doses to as low as is reasonably practicable and the importance of making the safe operating envelope of the plant explicit in plant safety cases.
A planned six monthly meeting was held with the majority of the site Safety Representatives. Areas of regulatory interest and safety issues were discussed. No major safety concerns were raised.
Routine compliance inspection of plant was carried out to the inspection plan and parts of the site have been inspected by the site inspector on each of his visits. The following topics were covered; documents and records, recording and investigation of events, quality assurance and radiological protection.
No statutory reportable radiological incidents have been notified to the NII this quarter.
No legal instruments were issued during the quarter.
Published on the HSE web site 14 October 2002