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Red nding is related to a deviation of high safety
signicance, which can affect the safety of
Red
plant/facility, personnel or the environment and
needs urgent corrective action(s) by the facility.
Safety Signicance Orange safety of plant/facility, personnel or the
Orange nding is related to a deviation of
moderate safety signicance, which can affect the

environment in future, if remains uncorrected or
involve certain unanalysed plant conditions which
may affect safety.

Grey nding is related to a deviation of low safety
Grey
signicance, which may affect the safety of the
plant/facility or personnel or the environment
together with certain other failure(s).

White nding is related to a deviation of very low
safety signicance, which may not affect systems,
White structures or components related to plant or
personnel safety or the environment.

AERB follows-up the implementation of all
the actions for resolution of the reported
deviations. Orange and Red ndings are
reviewed for appropriate follow-up or
enforcement actions. The closure of the Grey,
Orange and Red ndings of nuclear and
industrial facilities are considered by AERB after
review and acceptance of the corrective actions.
The Licensee has its own internal mechanism for
resolution of White ndings, which is checked by As an interim measure, AERB developed
AERB inspectors on sample basis during remote regulatory inspection process to continue
subsequent inspections. its regulatory oversight over the licensed
activities/facilities. This remote inspection
Radiation facilities have to submit the action involves,
taken report for all types of inspection ndings for
review and consideration by AERB for closure. (i) Assessment of the activity/facility by the
utility itself as per the self-assessment
Remote Regulatory Inspection during COVID- checklists specially developed by AERB;
19 Pandemic
(ii) Review of self-assessment checklist by an
The regulatory inspection programme faced inspection team for identifying the need for
a major challenge during the COVID-19 additional / supporting submissions
pandemic, which restricted the movement of (including records, documents,
people across the country. In last week of photographs, videos on sample basis) from
February 2020, AERB took the rst step by the utility/facility;
deciding not to depute inspectors, who have
known medical issues. Subsequently, in March (iii) Video conferencing with the licensee
2020 as the travel restrictions were imposed by to verify certain compliances, as necessary;
Govt. of India, Management of AERB suggested and
to identify alternative means for conducting
regulatory inspections. (iv) Issuance of inspection report after review of
the evidences and submissions.
The self-assessment checklists developed

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