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Control temporary bypasses, impairments and degraded conditions through a governed process that evaluates risk, establishes compensatory measures and maintains authorization throughout the period of reduced protection.
Maintain visibility of affected equipment and functions from initial identification through implementation, monitoring, restoration and verified closure.
Book a MeetingNuclear facilities rely on layers of equipment, controls, barriers, alarms and protective functions. Maintenance, testing, modification or equipment degradation can temporarily remove or reduce the availability of those protections.
The immediate technical condition may be understood, but the management challenge is broader: determining the significance of the impairment, identifying affected functions, establishing compensatory measures and ensuring the condition remains authorized for as long as it exists.
Temporary conditions are particularly vulnerable to becoming normalized. Without active monitoring, defined restoration criteria and clear accountability, a short-term bypass or impairment can remain in place longer than intended.
Maintain a current view of active bypasses, impairments and temporarily unavailable functions.
Determine the significance of the condition and whether additional controls are required before authorization.
Define required temporary controls and keep them connected to the condition that made them necessary.
Document who approved the condition, applicable restrictions and the period for which the authorization remains valid.
Track duration, review dates and restoration commitments so temporary impairments do not become permanent by default.
Confirm that the affected capability and associated temporary controls have been properly restored before closure.
A configurable lifecycle maintains control from identification of the bypass or impairment through risk assessment, compensatory measures, authorization, active monitoring and verified restoration.
Define bypass, impairment and degraded-condition categories appropriate to your facility and program structure.
Configure evaluation criteria based on affected equipment, functions, consequences and duration.
Define, assign and track temporary controls required while normal protection is unavailable.
Route conditions through appropriate technical, operational and management authorization based on significance.
Establish expiration dates, recurring reviews and escalation requirements for extended temporary conditions.
Require confirmation that normal capability has been restored and temporary measures removed before final closure.
FACILEX® ATOMIC connects bypasses and impairments with the credited functions, configuration changes, actions and corrective processes needed to maintain control until normal capability is restored.
FACILEX® Bypass & Impairment Control is one of 21 configurable applications within FACILEX® ATOMIC. Impairments can remain connected to affected safety functions, temporary configuration changes, compensatory measures, corrective actions and restoration commitments throughout their lifecycle.
We can map your current bypass and impairment categories, risk evaluations, compensatory measures, authorization requirements, periodic reviews and restoration controls to a configured FACILEX® ATOMIC process.