SQA Site Assessments and Criteria Review and
Approach Documents
DOE
G 414.1-4, Implementation Guide for Use
with Supplemental Safety Software Quality Requirements
of DOE Order 414.1C, Quality Assurance, was
issued June 17. 2005. This Guide, referred to
as the DOE Safety Software Quality Assurance
(SSQA) Guide, includes Appendix F, a Criteria
Review and Approach Document (CRAD) associated
with the SSQA requirements in DOE
O 414.1C.
The criteria in the CRAD apply to all safety
software regardless of the safety software
definition or software type (acquired or custom).
The Lines of Inquiry associated with the CRAD
should be customized to fit the DOE approved
graded approach and ASME NQA-1-2000 or a standard
with an equivalent level of SQA requirements
approved by DOE. Since the graded approach and
standard(s) approved can vary from site-to-site,
there is no single set of Lines of Inquiry that
could be developed that would be applicable
to all sites.
DOE G 414.1-4 Appendix F replaces 2 previously
issued CRADs that were associated with assessments
as part of DOE's
Implementation Plan for DNFSB Recommendation
2002-1, Quality Assurance for Safety Software
at Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Facilities.
These previous CRADS, the Instrumentation
and Control CRAD and the Safety
Analysis and Design CRAD were generated
for the identification, selection, and assessment
of the safety software to establish a baseline
during the initial assessments. Assessment
reports and lessons learned from the EM
and NNSA assessments are available on the SQA
Knowledge Portal.
As part of the implementation plan for Recommendation
2004-1, the CRAD in DOE G 414.1-4 Appendix F
was updated as part of the oversight guidance being developed (reference DOE P 226.1A and DOE O 226.1A). This updated
CRAD is available as a draft. The Lines
of Inquiry included with the draft CRAD are
based upon the graded approach in DOE G 414.1-4
and ASME NQA-1-2000. Those Lines of Inquiry
attempt to address the graded approach in the
DOE safety software guide. For sites using the
graded approach in the DOE safety software guide
and the Lines of Inquiry associated with the
draft DOE Oversight Manual CRAD, Section 5 of
the DOE safety software guide should provide
the needed information to customize the Lines
of Inquiry.
Software
Quality Assurance CRADs
Quality
Assurance CRADs
For more
information on SQA Assessments/SQA CRADs, contact Subir Sen.
For more
information on QA CRADs, contact, Colette Broussard.
This page was last updated on November 04, 2008
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