Volume 2 - Atomic Energy Regulatory Board

for review and disposition of non-conformances should be identified. The
programme should provide appropriate actions to be taken to ensure that
conditions adverse to quality, such as failures, malfunctions, deficiencies,
deviations, defective or incorrect material, equipment and any other nonconformance
are identified and corrected.
Preventive actions should also be identified based on the review of nonconformances.
B.6 QA RECORDS
Records should be prepared and maintained to provide objective evidence
of quality to meet the requirements of applicable codes, standards and
specifications.
Records should include:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
results of reviews, inspections, tests and audits,
operation logs,
non-conformance reports, repairs carried out,
training, qualifications and certification of personnel,
information pertaining to ‘as-built’ condition of items in the plant,
copies of design drawings, PSAR, FSAR, RPM, QAM, licence/
consents/certificates, etc.,
radiation dose records, emergency exercises and maintenance
records.
The record system shall be established which includes the arrangements and
responsibilities for the categorisation, receipt, indexing, preservation/storage,
retrieval, inspection and disposal of records after expiry of the specified
retention period of non-permanent records.
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