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Review and Assessment of Closure Plans for the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and the Chemical Agent Munition Disposal System: Letter Report (2010)
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. "Assessment Criteria and Status Review of Closure Planning for TOCDF and CAMDS." Review and Assessment of Closure Plans for the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and the Chemical Agent Munition Disposal System: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010.

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Review and Assessment of Closure Plans for the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and the Chemical Agent Munition Disposal System: Letter Report

Letter Report on TOCDF-CAMDS Closure Planning

MAR Draft: January 7, 2010

TABLE 1 Facility Closure Parameters and Associated Leading and Lagging Metricsa

Parameter

Leading Metrics

Lagging Metrics

Safety, health, and security

  • Near misses (potential injury, potential exposure, potential breach)

  • Site orientation for visitors and workforce

  • Incident investigations completed within 30 days

  • Cross training for workforces and supervisors

  • Appropriate personal protective equipment for all tasks (goal is 100 percent)

  • Closure of open safety items in a timely manner

  • Random drug testing

  • First aid cases by body part

  • Recordable injuries and exposures

  • Lost-time injuries (number)

  • Days away from work due to workplace incident/injury

  • Fatalities (all causes)

  • Transportation incidents on-site/off-site

  • Fires (ranging from smoke through explosion)

  • Security (actual breach of fence line, procedures)

Communications for promoting safety culture

  • Periodically survey employees, supervisors, and managers with respect to criteria important to a strong safety culture

  • Document frequency of safety communication sessions where employee leadership and participation are encouraged

Maintenance Planning and scheduling of all maintenance work

  • Appropriate maintenance for construction equipment

  • Preventive maintenance program for key equipment

  • Predictive maintenance program for key equipment

  • Appropriate calibration and checking of instrumentation and controls

  • Audit maintenance process regularly

  • Monitor maintenance

Training and development

  • Cross train and educate for critical operation and deconstruction positions

  • Continuing education: at least 40 hours per year of technical coursework

  • Workforce training on the facility and on non-normal process situations for operation personnel, including drills for abnormal conditions

  • Workforce training on the facility and on non-normal process situations for deconstruction personnel, including emergency and abnormal conditions

  • Not applicable

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