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The Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service has had a year full of success

The Fire Service operating at the Nuclear Power Plant has had a year full of success. Although there was no fire at the Power Plant last year, thanks to a special agreement the Fire Service had the opportunity to work in live situations and accomplished serious tasks in the field of fire prevention.
The Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service, which was established as a professional organisation twelve years ago and which has been operating as a full-time facility fire service since 1994, gave an evaluation of the previous year at the personnel meeting.
Besides the tasks specified by the law, the sixty-four-member personnel have to accomplish the tasks stipulated in the contract with the Nuclear Power Plant as well, accordingly their activities include fire prevention, patient transport and other production assisting activities in addition to damage restoration. Last year for the first time the Fire Service had a common drilling exercise with the operational personnel and they had to go to the scene of damage approximately in two hundred cases. Most cases happened outside the Power Plant, but according to a special agreement the Facility Fire Service go together with the Professional Fire Service of Paks to the scenes in order to have opportunity to work in live situations.
A performance evaluation system was introduced six years ago at the Power Plant Fire Service. An important element of the evaluation system is education, training, and the subsequent surveys, exams. Last year the Fire Service achieved 1-2% improvement in this field. 'Evaluation on the base of performance is very effective and stimulating, but it is impossible to develop endlessly. The team is on a good level, if they can keep it up, or improve by one or two percent every year, I will be really satisfied.'-claimed Péter Bőhm, the chief commander of Fire Service, evaluating the work of the fire-fighters.

Tolnai Népújság - January 23.2003