Strengthening and Harmonizing Quality Management Systems
The IAEA developed a new set of Safety Standards that establishes requirements and provide guidance for applying an integrated Management System for facilities and activities. The new standards replace the IAEA 50-C-Q Code on Quality Assurance for Safety in Nuclear Power Plants and other Nuclear Installations, as well as the related 14 Safety Guides contained in the Safety Series No.50-C/SG-Q (1996) [1].
The main objective of Management System requirements and guidance established in the Safety Standards is to ensure that safety is not compromised by considering the implications of all actions with regard to safety as a whole and not in separate Management Systems.
Current Activities
Harmonize the safety standards of management systems
Prepare a Safety Report on the comparison of IAEA Standards with ISO 9001 standards
Advise Member States on management systems
Prepare a TECDOC on the attributes of effective management systems
Recent Achievements
Safety Requirement GS-R-3 The Management System for Facilities and Activities
Safety Guide GS-G-3.1 Application of the Management System for Facilities and Activities
Technical Meetings and Workshops
Technical Meeting on Management System Considerations for Developing Nuclear Power Programmes
1-3 September 2009, Vienna9th IAEA and FORATOM Joint Workshop on Practical Implementation of IAEA Safety Standards on Management
22-25 June 2009, Offenbach am Main, Germany8th IAEA and FORATOM Joint Workshop on Application of Effective Management Systems
12-16 November 2007, Vienna
