CEGB policy

The CEGB Executive Minute 1198, September 1982: NOTING that the CEGB had for many years displayed a firm commitment to application and development of quality assurance, the Executive REAFFIRMED the Statement of Policy as follows:

‘It is the policy of the CEGB that for all items of power generating and transmission plant and asso­ciated systems, that there shall be in force appropriate arrangements for providing assurance of quality at all stages from design to decommissioning.’

CEGB corporate quality assurance guidance

For the current list of corporate quality assurance guidance documentation reference should be made to the Quality Assurance Policy Development Unit. Two corporate guides have been issued, which are broadly based, identify fundamental principles and provide general guidance to those responsible for QA in each phase of a power station’s life. The titles of these guides are:

CQA1 — A Guide to the QA Practices for Con­ventional Generation and Transmission Plant and Equipment.

CQA2 — A guide to the QA Practices for Nuclear Safety Related Plant and Equipment.

Additional guidance is provided by a series of CEGB Quality Memoranda (QM), some of which are issued in direct support of CQA1 and CQA2. For example, CQA1 and CQA2 provide general comments on the application of QA to the operational phase of an installation, but QM(0)1 *A Guide to the Development and Documentation of a Quality Assurance System for an Operational Location’ provides detailed guid­ance as discussed in Section 5.8.2 below.