Background
The 2006 revision of the Safety Assessment Principles
The SAPs provide guidance to ONR’s inspectors when assessing a safety case and its supporting documentation. This includes guidance on proportionality and the completeness of a safety case and what to look for when judging whether a duty holder has done sufficient to meet regulatory requirements.
SAPs were last published by HSE in 1992 and needed reviewing to:
- bring them up to date with health and safety legislation;
- bring them up to date with regard to ONR assessment practice;
- add SAPs for assessment areas that were not previously covered, including the remediation and decommissioning activities of the nuclear industry; and
- facilitate harmonisation between the SAPs and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety standards and other western European regulators.
In reviewing and revising the principles, ONR took into account the technical interests and comments of others through inviting early comment on specific technical topic areas, and undertaking wider consultation via formal stakeholder engagement (April - May 2006). The stakeholder engagement was not a legal requirement since it was not a consultation on new legislation, but was carried out to give assurance that the SAPs are understood by the industry and other relevant stakeholders.
Stakeholder engagement
All comments received on the revised SAPs during the formal stakeholder engagement (April - May 2006) have been addressed. Our responses to the comments have been tablulated and our responses, and supporting documents are included below.
Safety Assessment Principles for Nuclear Facilities
Nuclear site licence conditions
The use of computers in safety-critical applications
Licensing Nuclear
Installations
The tolerability of risk from nuclear power stations
ONR Corporate plan 2011-2015