Conduct of Operations Workshops for Nuclear Operators at Ontario Power Generation

Abstract

This presentation gives a brief overview at one of the initiatives we undertook as a training department to help the stations address weaknesses in operator fundamentals. The two day interactive workshop was designed to help Field Operators internalize lessons learned from previous operating experience and highlight the importance of monitoring plant conditions and indications closely. The Workshops were also designed to help the staff reaffirm their bias for a conservative approach to plant operations and to help Field Operators work effectively as a team. All OPG Field Operators and supervision from all field Operator streams at our Pickering and Darlington plants attended the workshops in 2006. Feedback from participants and in-plant results of this initiative has proved positive.