Optimizing transport security risk analysis/emergency response preparedness

Abstract

The transport security is very important for AREVA group and the nuclear business in general. Because the transports are on the public field they are more sensitive for the persons and the environment. In order to optimise the AREVA group transport security and the effective implementation of nuclear safety charters the Business Unit Logistics puts in place in 2006 a specific organisation with a reinforced team and some new processes. The scope is the transportation of nuclear materials and contaminated equipment representing a specific risk to the group (safety, physical protection, industrial and media). The main BU LOGISTICS assignments are:

(i) to provide customised services to every BU of the group

(ii) to certify and control external subcontractors chosen with BU's consent

(iii) to supply all support for BU's in the field of:

(a) transportation preparation and organisation

(b) emergency management

(c) monitoring of regulations

(d) technical expertise associated with transportation.

This paper will introduce the approach of the risk analysis. The approach is in three steps:

(i) the transportation flow risk analysis

(ii) the Implementation priority

(iii) the proposal for corrective actions.

For risks analysis, we evaluate, for each transportation flow, the occurrence or probability of an event during transport and the consequence of any potential event. From this, we get a risk level for each transport flow. For the implementation priority, based on the risk level already evaluated in step (i), we evaluate and grade the current management of the risk. So, for each transportation flow, we have the risk level and the current level of the risk management. For the last part we propose corrective actions for priority flows.

Keywords:

• SECURITY
• EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
• TRANSPORT SECURITY