Root Cause / Cause Analysis
WD Associates provides highly experienced industry personnel to perform Root Cause / Cause Analysis services for significant events that have occurred at your facility. In addition, WD performs independent reviews and provides oversight and mentoring of the development and implementation of effective actions at your facility to aid in ensuring performance problems and gaps are identified before they result in a loss of production, regulatory compliance issues or personnel injuries.
Root Cause / Cause Analysis services include:
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Corrective Action Program (CAP) development and Implementation
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Root Cause Analysis Team support
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Independent Reviews of Cause Analysis
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Major equipment failures investigations
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Severe personnel injury/fatality investigations
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Training and Mentoring leaders in Performance Improvement and CAP
Assessments / Inspection Support
WD Associates provides highly experienced industry personnel to assist clients in performing assessments/inspections at your facility; we also perform independent reviews of assessments/inspections as requested. In addition, WD develop assessment programs to enable clients in identifying performance gaps and operational vulnerabilities at your facility.
Assessments / Inspection Support services include:
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CAP Program Effectiveness Assessments
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Training Program Assessments
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Safety Program Assessments
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NRC IP 95001/95002/95003 Support
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NERC Assessment support
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NERC Cold Weather Assessments
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Vegetation management safety event analysis
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Plant Operational Performance & Material Condition Assessments
Performance Improvement Mentoring and Support
WD Associates provides highly experienced personnel to help clients become more effective in solving problems ranging from targeting fixes for specific problems to overall integrated organizational improvements.
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Performance Improvement / Mentoring and Support services include:
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Development and implementation of continuous improvement activities
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Support for analysis and resolution of performance gaps
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Performance Assessment Mentoring and Support
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Analysis of Safety Culture issues
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Organizational Effectiveness Assessments
PAUL BLASIOLI
Experience:
Commercial Nuclear Industry experience from 1977 to present:
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Director in Charge – Nuclear Support Services, Dominion Resources: Responsible for Fleet Nuclear Training, Fleet Nuclear Protection Services and Emergency Preparedness (including security, access authorization, fitness for duty, and industrial safety), Nuclear Licensing & Operational Support, and Nuclear Fleet Outage Services.
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Director – Nuclear Protection Services & Emergency Preparedness, Dominion Resources: Responsible for Fleet Nuclear Protection Services, including Security and Industrial Safety, Fleet Emergency Preparedness Programs, Fleet Nuclear Access Services and Fitness for Duty Program. Instilled a continuous improvement culture resulting in the 4 Security and Emergency Preparedness NRC Performance Indicators improving from industry fourth quartile performance to top industry quartile across the fleet, and in some instances, top industry decile performance.
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Director – Organizational Effectiveness, Kewaunee Power Station, Dominion Resources: Responsible for Corrective Action, Human Performance, Operating Experience, Self-Assessment, and Benchmarking Programs. Drove a significant and sustained station cultural change and performance improvement during its recovery from an INPO Policy Note 14 plant, resulting in the closure of 2 NRC Substantive Cross-Cutting Issues in Problem Identification and Resolution (PI&R) and Human Performance (HU) within 1 year
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Manager – Millstone 3 Corrective Actions, Millstone Power Station, Northeast Utilities: Responsible for Corrective Action Program, Self-Assessment Program Owner, and Root Cause Specialists. Created and implemented the Corrective Action Program Improvement Plan in response to NRC 10CFR50.54 (f) letter, which facilitated the required culture change at Millstone necessary to allow restart of shutdown units.
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Millstone 3 Senior Reactor Operator Management Certification
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Qualified Root Cause Specialist
WD Associates Inc. from 2015 to present:
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Senior Cause Analyst in support of Root and Apparent Cause Evaluations and the 95003 Recovery efforts at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Station
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Senior Cause Analyst in support of Root Cause Evaluations at Entergy’s Waterford 3 Nuclear Station
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Team Lead for Pre-NRC PI&R Focused Self-Assessment at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
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Senior Cause Analyst in support of Cause Evaluations for Southern California Edison in the area of industrial safety events
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Contact through WD office:
Jeanine Foster, Corporate Contracts Manager
WD Associates, Inc.
410-452-0055 Ext. 12