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GE Healthcare Ltd, Maynard Centre Site, Cardiff

Quarterly report for 1 April – 30 June 2008

Contents

Foreword

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 GE Healthcare Ltd Grove Centre Local Liaison Committee (LLC) and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at the site. These reports are distributed quarterly and are available also from the Internet at www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/index.htm. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate attend some LLC meetings and will be happy to respond to any questions raised there by members. Any other person wishing to inquire about matters covered by this report should contact the HSE’s Nuclear Directorate on 0151-951-3484/3290.

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Inspections

NII inspections at the Maynard Centre were made on 2 – 3 April, 5 - 6 May 2008. Inspections are also made at GE Healthcare Ltd’s nuclear licensed sites at Amersham (the Grove Centre) and Harwell. Where these are relevant to the Maynard Centre they are included below. For instance, the sites have many arrangements in common for compliance with the conditions attached to their site licences.

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Routine matters

Inspections at Site. Inspections are undertaken at site as part of the process for monitoring compliance with:

  1. the conditions attached by HSE/NII to the nuclear site licence;
  2. the Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) 1974 and
  3. regulations made under the HSWA for example the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

This entails monitoring licensee’s actions on the site in relation to incidents, operations, maintenance, projects, modifications, safety case changes and any other matters which may affect safety. The licensees/operators are required to make and implement adequate arrangements under the conditions attached to the Site Licence in order to ensure legal compliance. Inspections seek to judge both the adequacy of these arrangements and their implementation. In this period routine inspections of (site/station) covered:

  1. The May meeting of the Local Liaison Committee was attended by the NII site inspector.
  2. Minor amendments to the Maynard Centre Emergency Plan have been proposed. The existing plan is Approved by the NII. The revision to the plan will require a new Approval under Site Licence condition 11.
  3. Additional topics covered during this period include the following:
    Site Management Structure, Safety Management System, EHS Committees On Site & Future Plans For Site (Including O-CD), Role Of Engineering Dept, Role Of EHS Dept, Safety Case Program and Liabilities Management on site. Incident Reporting Arrangements And Any Significant Recent Events.

Issues arising from these and previous inspections are being pursued.

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Non-routine matters

Licensees are required to have arrangements to respond to non-routine matters and events. NII inspectors judge the adequacy of the licensee’s/operators response including actions taken to implement any necessary improvements. There are no items of particular note during the current reporting period

Corporate

A Liabilities Management Meeting was held at Stafford.

Maynard Centre

The NII site inspector and EA inspector attended site induction training at the Maynard Centre.

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Regulatory activities

Under Health and Safety legislation NII Site Inspectors, and other HSE Inspectors, may issue formal documents to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Under nuclear site licence conditions HSE/NII issues regulatory documents, which either permission an activity or requires some form of action to be taken; these are collectively termed Licence Instruments (LIs).1 In addition inspectors may issue enforcement notices to secure improvements to safety. No such documents were issued in this quarter. (There is an existing Approval request for the Maynard Centre Emergency Plan.)

No other issues have arisen that have required formal regulatory action.