DOE Complex Electrical Event Charts


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April 2010

05/06/10

Analysis of EFCOG Electrical Safety Charts for April 2010.

DOE Electrical Events are one month from an increasing trend.  There is currently three months in a row one standard deviation above average.

DOE 08A Electrical Shocks is stable on the recently increased baseline average.

Electrical Shocks and Near Misses 08J Chart has had a new baseline average and control limit established reflecting the adverse trend noted last month  The baseline average has gone from 2.9 per month to 4.3  per month, a nearly 50% increase over the previous rate.

SC Program Office charts are stable.  SC Total Events are three of four at one standard deviation below average, one month from an improving trend.

NA Program Office Electrical Events and 08J Near Misses appear to be stable. 

NA Program Office 08A Electrical Shocks have been elevated since October 2009 and will have a new baseline average and control limits calculated when the data stabilize.  March and April 2010 were two standard deviations above average, another indication of this ongoing trend.

EM Program Office Electrical Events has an increasing trend.  The past four months have been one standard deviation above average.

EM Program Office 08J Electrical Near Miss Chart has had a new baseline average and control limit established reflecting the recent adverse trend in this data.  The baseline average has gone from 0.8 per month to 2.1 per month, more than double the previous rate.

EM Program Office 08A Electrical Shocks Chart has had a new baseline average and control limit established reflecting the recent points above the old Upper Control Limit  The baseline average has gone from 0.4 per month to 0.9  per month, more than double the previous rate.

Causes A3B1C03 – “Incorrect performance due to mental lapse” and A4B1C01 – “Management policy guidance / expectations not well-defined, understood or enforced” remain in the top three leading causes of Electrical Near Misses over the past 12 months.  Cause A3B3C05 –“ Incorrect assumption that a correlation existed between two or more facts” entered into the top three this month.

Raw Data Sheet

Electrical Events ORPS by Month All DOE

08A Electrical Shocks ORPS by Month All DOE

08J Electrical Near Miss ORPS by Month All DOE

08J Electrical Near Miss - Top 7 Causes, All DOE

Electrical Events ORPS by Month SC Program Office

08A Electrical Shocks ORPS by Month at SC Program Office

08J Electrical Near Miss ORPS by Month SC Program Office

Electrical Events ORPS by Month NA Program Office

08A Electrical Shocks ORPS by Month at NA Program Office

08J Electrical Near Miss ORPS by Month NA Program Office

Electrical Events ORPS by Month EM Program Office

08A Electrical Shocks ORPS by Month at EM Program Office

08J Electrical Near Miss ORPS by Month EM Program Office

 


For more information on Statistical Process Control, please see http://www.hanford.gov/rl/?page=1144&parent=169 or contact

Steven S Prevette

Fluor Government Group

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions

Steven.Prevette@srs.gov

 


EFCOG POC

DOE POC

Mark Mcnellis, SNL - Chair

Electrical Safety Program Manager

Sandia National Laboratories
Po Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM  87185-1094

Phone: 505-845-4895  

E-mail: msmcnel@sandia.gov


Jackie McAlhaney, SRNS -
Vice Chair

Technical Advisor

Savannah River Site
Building 703-H 
Aiken, SC 29808

Phone: 803-208-3389 

E-mail: jackie.mcalhaney@srs.gov

 

David Mills, SRNS - Secretary

Chair, Senior Electrical Review Board

Savannah River Site

Bldg. 707-38B, Room 8

Aiken, SC / 29808

Phone: 803-952-8295

Email: tdavid.mills@srs.gov

 

Frank Russo, DOE-HQ/NNSA
NNSA/DOE
1000 Independence Ave
Washington, DC   20585

Phone: 202-586-9056

E-mail: frank.russo@nnsa.doe.gov