Department · Nuclear Safety Case
Operations and Maintenance
Scope
Day-to-day production operations, asset maintenance, permit-to-work, real-time supervision, and the deviation/intervention discipline at the sharp end. The function that executes against the standards Engineering sets and the procedures the management system mandates.
The reframing
"'Ops = the people who run it' is the easy framing — but Operations and Maintenance own significant content in every element from leadership commitment through to assurance. The deeper test: when a barrier degrades, does Ops have the authority and the procedure to act? If yes, the framework is working. If not, the framework has been written for somebody else's audit."
Footprint across the framework
Where Operations & Maintenance pivots into other departments
→ EngineeringReceives standards, raises deviations, owns integrity execution
→ CommercialService contracts, contractor operational performance
→ HR / PeopleOperational competence, fatigue and shift management