Nuclear Oversight Activities Overview in 2014
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Nuclear oversight teams cooperation and participation in WANO, INPO, OSART missions
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Cooperation, benchmarks and exchange of experts with nuclear oversight organizations such as ČEZ, ENDESA as well as other nuclear companies within the EU
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Review of functional and cross functional areas in Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant and Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant according to WANO Performance Objectives & Criteria
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Identification of deficiencies and areas for improvement in Units 3 and 4, Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant construction site that may have an adverse impact on the safety of future operation
Integrated Management System
The Integrated Management System of Slovenské elektrárne (IMS) is the basic pillar in setting the integrated policy and main goals of organisation as well as the means for meeting them in an effective and efficient way. It concurrently guarantees the fulfilment of all relevant requirements of stakeholders, i.e. customers, owners, suppliers as well as the Company’s own employees.
The integrated management system includes the following principles, approaches and values:
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safety first, each Slovenské elektrárne employee is personally responsible for and contributes to increasing the safety level
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focusing on prevention, continuous improvement and learning
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promoting the optimum course of processes using an appropriate organisational structure
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provision of information on the performance of processes and of the entire organisation
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use of results and proposals from ongoing projects for continuous improvement of the IMS
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focus on internal and external customers, provision of information about the satisfaction of customers and other stakeholders, flexible response to entitled requirements by stakeholders.
Quality
An important indicator of a sound company is its ability to define ambitious Main goals and to ensure resources and controlled conditions for achieving and fulfilling those goals.
One of the prerequisites for successfully fulfilling the goals also includes the process approach efficiently applied in Slovenské elektrárne - within the framework of the Company’s process model, selected key performance indicators of the Company and process documentation.
The efficiency and effectiveness of the integrated management system was verified in 2014 through 16 integrated audits executed at the headquarters and at all plants and establishments of the Company. The findings are continuously used with the view of continuous improvement of the integrated management system through the defined corrective and preventive measure.
Slovenské elektrárne is aware of the responsibility resulting from its area of activity and also the fact that the responsibility cannot be passed on to suppliers. For this reason, in 2014, 59 external or customer audits were carried out at the place of all suppliers having a possible impact on nuclear safety.