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2 Summary of Current Safety and Environmental Metrics at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
2 Summary of Current Safety and Environmental Metrics at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
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agement, safety professionals, the workforce, The term "safety metric" refers to a standard of contractors, the public, and other sites. measurement used to maintain an accident- and injuryfree workplace, while "environmental metric" refers Metrics can also be characterized by whether they to a standard of measurement for chemical and han- are based on events that have already occurred, usually dling processes relating to public health and the called lagging indicators, or on measured precursors environment.
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• Cost performance, 10-20 percent ANCDF uses a number of what it calls leading • Schedule performance, 10-20 percent safety and health indicators: With 45 to 65 percent of the total available award fee • The number of assessments performed by safety based on safety and environmental performance, there professionals; is significant incentive for CMA's contractors to excel • The number of assessments performed by a safety in these areas. representative, a first-line supervisor, or a member The award fee criteria identify specific safety and of an employee-led committee; environmental performance criteria against which con- • The number of assessments involving review of tractor performance is assessed.
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The lower number is calculated without these cases included. SOURCE: Cheryl Maggio, Deputy Project Manager Chemical Stockpile Elimination, CMA, "Chemical stockpile elimination project overview," presentation to the committee on September 24, 2008; Personal communication between Raj Malhotra, Deputy, Mission Support Directorate, CMA, and Margaret Novack, NRC, study director, December 10, 2008.
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Additional environmental information is supplied FACs, near misses, injury by location on the body, for meetings of the Team for Environmental Aware- number of EBS observations, number of findings of ness Compliance and Health and the Non-Compliance safe behavior, number of findings of "at risk" behavReview and Validation Squad. Cheryl Maggio, Deputy Project Manager, Chemical Stockpile Elimination, "Chemical stockpile elimination project overview," presentation to the committee on September 24, 2008.
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All of the safety data col lected are utilized to develop strategies for continuous Pine bluff chemical agent disposal improvement in safety performance at PBCDF. facility,10,11 The environmental metrics at PBCDF aim to mini mize environmental enforcement actions and enhance The Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facil the environmental culture at the facility.
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inspections completed per month is used as a metric, and monthly histograms are produced showing counts tooele chemical agent disposal of specific unsafe conditions and work practices. In facility12,13,14 addition to injury metrics, TOCDF also counts safety near misses and reports this metric on a weekly trend The Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility chart.
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Days since basis it reviews the OSHA 300 log, the project's total the last RI are included in the daily safety management work rolling RIR, operations and maintenance rolling report that is distributed to all management and through RIR, operations and maintenance subcontractor RIR, the weekly Safety Action Team publication SAT News- hours and days without a LWC, and FACs.18 letter. Safe work hours are communicated very broadly Additionally, plant managers and the safety manager on large signs around the site, the TOCDF intranet, in conduct and document weekly safety inspections of weekly and monthly management reports, and to all targeted work areas.
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A weekly safety synopsis is delivered to Environmental metrics are communicated to the project management, the field office, and the corporate Environmental Process Improvement Team, to quaroffice. In addition, there is a monthly report, which is terly meetings of supervisors and the project general a contract deliverable, including data from the OSHA manager, to "welcome back" briefings every Tuesday, 300 forms, a summary of near misses and FACs, and and articles in Today.
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