I also recognize the problems that can exist in an organization, even the best run, and from all of the EPRI reports that I have read over the years there can be a few, even among the Sainted Nukes.
One of the biggest problems that A Control Room Operator has is getting timely information. The DCS provides much but the floor guy, with experience, can anticipate, based on experience, what might happen. The CRO, if the floor guy is correct or if he isn't and is acting on a hunch, can monitor that parameter and pass it on up the line
I have looked at a lot of places where the floor guy does a horizontal eight on the 11-7 and the CRO takes it in the butt because he didn't notice a obscure alarm.
***I have looked at a lot of places where the floor guy does a horizontal eight on the 11-7 and the CRO takes it in the butt because he didn’t notice a obscure alarm.***
I get your meaning now. We have different terms for the “floor guy”. We have found it is the coal yard that does the Horizontal eight (twelve now since they don’t get enough sleep at home) most of the time. the rest are usually in the control room when they are not taking care of the bottom ash or demineralizer, and general walk downs.
We recently switched to a twelve hour rotating shift. It is killing us. Days off are great though.
My biggest problem is the company has promoted people with aabsolutly no CRO experience to supervision and we have taken it in the butt as a result.
One person promoted to Shift Supervisor twenty five years ago retired with the honor of loosing the unit more than anyone because of his general stupidity. When he was promoted years ago it caused half of the “unit attendants”(floor guys) to walk out.
Equal dubious promotions have been made in the last few years which have caused people at other plants in the company to wonder “What is going on there?”