Contractors and consultants at Forsmark

Here we have gathered information regarding the requirements you need to consider and arrange ahead of your assignment at Forsmark. Before you can come on site and work at Forsmark, we need various certificates from you. When all the paperwork is in order, entry controls take place quickly and smoothly. To the right there are links to training courses you may need to complete before carrying out your assignment for us. If you are going to work here, we require:

Preregistration
Security and safety training, applies to everyone except visitors
Clean System training
Security clearance including register control, for access to Forsmark's facillities
Drug test, for access to Forsmarks facillities and when working for more than five days on the industrial site
Medical examination / Health declaration, for work in radiological environment
Dose declaration

Preregistration

In order to enter Forsmark, you must be preregistered in plenty of time. Your contact person here is responsible for preregistering you, and the one to turn to if you have any questions. You can then sign for your ID badge in the reception building at Security. Remember to bring identification documents with you.

Security and safety training

Anyone who is to work at Forsmark must complete our Security and safety training. This is done when you arrive, at the information center. Ask your contact person to register you for a course in English. The training is valid for three years. The course can be repeated via the interactive training here on our website (see the link to the right).

Clean System training

Will you be working at Forsmark and have access to the controlled area or other areas in which your work could affect the cleanliness of our systems? If so, you must undergo Clean System training. The training is interactive, and you undergo the training here on our website. See the link to the right.

Security clearance including register control

In order to gain access to Forsmark’s facillities we demand the following:

• Implemented security background check, collective corporate certificate
• Permission for register control, signed by the individual
• Presentation of register control – the Swedish Security Service’s form for register control, personal data filled in by the individual

The forms can be found among the links to the right.

Each supplier conducts its own security background check for its personnel. A register control is then carried out in the police’s register. We register the register control via the Swedish National Grid.

Send in the certificates at least 6 weeks before arrival.

The certificates and register controls apply during the period the person/company is working at Forsmark. The register control may need to be renewed if the time between two work periods is more than one year. Also when a person changes company, new information as described above is required.
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Drug test

In order to gain access to Forsmark’s facillities, we demand that you undergo a drug test. The following substances are tested for: amphetamines, cannabinoids, opiates and cocaine. The drug test can be performed at your own occupational health centre or at another medical establishment.

The form can be found among the links to the right.

Send in the certificate at the latest 4 weeks before your arrival.The certificate is valid for 3 years.

Radiological medical examination/health declaration

All personnel that enters radiologically controlled areas are required to have a medical certificate stating that he or she is fit for work with ionising radiation (category A). The contractor should make sure that the medical examination is done prior to the arrival at Forsmark.

If you show documents of medical examinations, with respect to ionising radiation from the country where you now live, this will be accepted by Forsmark. However, if you live in a country that has no such scheme, Forsmark requires a medical examination no older than 1 year stating fit for work with ionising radiation. Please note that for all three reactors (BWR) the turbines are also in radiologically controlled areas.

An examination performed in Sweden according to Swedish regulations will also be accepted, however Forsmark cannot provide this service.

Dose declaration

All personnel are required to present a documented dose record covering the last five years. Citizens of the European Union shall present their dose passports. If your country does not issue such dose passports you are required to provide the dose record through other documents. If you have recently acquired exposures you are required to present the preliminary doses when arriving at Forsmark.

The dose accumulated during the last five years must not exceed 95 mSv and should leave sufficient margin for the dose expected during the work at Forsmark.
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