Balakovo NPP: ecological audit passed successfully

Balakovo NPP: ecological audit passed successfully

The commission was headed by auditor of international certification system NIS-Zert Mr. Rayner Feld. The co-auditor was auditor of DQS, Doctor of legal sciences, PhD in Technical Sciences, Professor of Academy of national economy under the Government of the RF Gennady Serov.
It is a scheduled work which is carried out in accordance with requirements of certification authorities. The experts communicated with specialists of the NPP, visited its subdivisions, studied EMS documentation.
«We very effectively cooperated with all participants of the audit, – said Mr. R.Feld at summing-up. – I was admired with the nuclear power plant staff’s high level of competence and knowledge. We saw that program of modernization is being executed successfully. We had a very complicated task – to express the potential for improvement, because in the existing management system there are no week points».
Head of the auditors group also noted high level of informative work with the population carried out by specialists of the public information center of the NPP.
«Results of the audit are positive, everything is done and is being done in accordance with the standards requirements», – G.Serov commented the conclusions.
«Our joint work is another plus for the set of issued of safety improvement», – considers Viktor Ignatov, director of Balakovo NPP.
On results of the inspection audit, the commission made decision to solicit before certification authorities for prolongation of the certificate validity period. The next re-certification with issuing of new certificates according to the plan will take place in 2011.
Balakovo NPP became the first enterprise in Russia that certified system of ecological management in system of international certification system IQNet for conformance to international standard ISO 14001: 2004 and successfully passes regular re-certification audits of this system. It means recognition of high values of the power plant ecological safety at the international level.