EDF and nuclear subcontracting, document RAS

[Christophe]

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[Flytox]

Very good report, I had the opportunity to meet some of these nuclear contractors, they told me stories to make the hair on the head .... Some are only allowed to shut their mouths ... or no longer find a job. Others have "chosen" to wear large large blinders ....

There was also the woman who was talking about the procedures that the controller signs ... procedure done to find a fuse when there is a problem and not to ensure that the parts checked can continue their service. Dilution of responsibilities, division of tasks, division of decisions, opacity monstrosity of the repository all combine to separate the signature of the "responsible / fuse" from the one who made the decision to accept the parts.

In some aeronautical circles it is also the trend. The other day again, in a company that I know well, a new edition of an "innocuous" document is released which talks about how to write manufacturing instruction sheets in general (a sort of guide to good manners planned to respect the all regulatory constraints). Strangely enough, the document covers both the manufacturing and control instruction sheets ??? The constraints are however very different!

By analyzing the content it is marked black on white that when the document "needs" to evolve, it can be modified by the editor without it going through the normal approval circuit. The decision is taken, among other things, in relation to the percentage of modification <15% !!!!!!!! (without specifying what it is). In production, it may be entirely justified, but in control it is .... an enormity.

You should know that a simple "detail" for a non-specialist can mislead the controller (user of the document) and make a control adjustment sheet totally inoperative .....

Below it is specified, always in full, that .... despite the changes made by the editor, the responsibility still remains with those qualified to modify and approve the document in question. (It is not foreseen in the document and in the facts that the approvers can be made aware of possible modifications of the editor, the information is dispatched at the good will of the editor).

The page after, a large ambiguous table recalls the rules for the validation of documents, while the previous page diverts them completely.

The editor for the control adjustment sheets, in the vast majority of cases does not have the qualification / competence to approve the document, does not necessarily know the job, may be a subcontractor ... whose only competence required and master Word or Excell ....

It is the all-powerful "Production", which does not have the qualification / competence / responsibility in control, which pays the subcontractor ... and makes him write ..... which does not cost him too much. The fact that the control can relate to parts ... which have absolutely no right to be scrapped on an aircraft without causing carnage is not important enough for this to be taken into account ...

[Christophe]

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[Christophe]

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