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Regulatory Decisions The Multi-tiered System of Safety
Reviews
Safety reviews related to the consenting decisions
and safety monitoring during various stages are
In this approach, the safety issues are first reviewed
carried out through multi-tier safety committees. It
and assessed through In-House safety Review Groups
follows the principle of “management by exception”,
(IHRG) within respective Directorates/Divisions of
following graded approach and is based on
AERB. The issues of greater significance are given
principles, requirements and criteria specified by
consideration at higher level committees for their
AERB in its regulatory documents.
satisfactory resolution. Recommendations of these
committees concerning the various safety issues
and consents are further considered by AERB for
arriving at regulatory decisions. This arrangement is
well defined in the AERB’s Integrated Management
System (IMS) to ensure comprehensiveness of the
reviews and effective compliance with the specified
requirements.
The committees include experts in relevant
fields, including process design, control and
instrumentation, thermal hydraulics, structural
analysis, reactor physics, seismology etc., relevant
to nuclear and radiation safety. The higher level
Committees include experts from academia, national
R&D institutes and government bodies.

BOARD of AERB

ACPSR/SARCOP

SEC/CESC/PDSC /DSRC/ Unit Safety

Committees

SGs/TFs/WGs/IHRGs/EGs

AERB : Atomic Energy Regulatory Board DSRC : Design Safety Review Committee
ACPSR : Advisory Committee for Project Safety SG : Specialist Groups
Review WG : Working Group
PDSC : Project Design Safety TF Committee TF : Task Force
SEC : Site Evaluation Committee EG : Expert Group
CESE : Civil Engineering Safety Committee IHRG : In-House Review Groups

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