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3. Basic Principles Of Nuclear Safety
systematic approach to quality management that extend throughout the range of
responsibilities and functions undertaken.
3.7.3.1. Staffing and training of the regulatory body
The regulatory body shall employ a sufficient number of personnel with the requisite
qualifications, experience and expertise to undertake its functions and responsibilities. It
is likely that there will be positions of a specialist nature and positions needing more
general skills and expertise. The regulatory body shall acquire and maintain the
competence to judge, on an overall basis, the safety of facilities and activities and to
make the necessary regulatory decisions.
In order to ensure that the proper skills are acquired and that adequate levels of
competence are achieved and maintained, the regulatory body shall ensure that its staff
members participate in well defined training programmes. The training should ensure that
the regulatory body personnel remain familiar with developing technology and changes in
safety principles and philosophy.
In undertaking its own review and assessment of a safety submission presented by the
operator, the regulatory body shall not rely solely on any safety assessment performed for
it by consultants or on that produced by the operator. Accordingly, the regulatory body
shall have a full time staff capable either of performing regulatory reviews and
assessments, or of evaluating any assessments performed for it by consultants.
3.7.3.2. Advisory bodies to the regulatory body
The government or the regulatory body may choose to give formal structure to the
processes by which expert opinions and advice are provided to the regulatory body. The
need for such formal advisory bodies is determined by many factors. When the
establishment of advisory bodies is considered necessary, on a temporary or permanent