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Maintaining Control Centre Operational Effectiveness and Teamwork During Transitions in Station Capabilities.
Abstract:
The one constant in the operation of power generation facilities is the pervasiveness of ongoing change. Ongoing change can be driven by continuing improvement initiatives from commercial and peer competitiveness, safety enhancement, the availability of new capabilities, equipment obsolescence, and regulatory changes. This continuing stream of station changes can result in impacts at all levels of the organization from equipment functionality, location and conventions, to work strategies and practices, and organization responsibilities and priorities.
The introduction of these changes must be managed in a way that minimizes challenges and disruption to continuing station operations and ensures the benefits of specific changes are fully realized. An under-appreciated yet critical aspect is the management of transition periods where station operations are conducted between initial change introduction and complete fulfilment. During such periods, the control centre staff become the primary managers of change introduction and mitigation of challenges imposed by conflicts of partial change implementation.
This paper discusses the Canadian experience with maintaining control room operational effectiveness and teamwork in CANDU control rooms during the introduction of changes in station capabilities.
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