Safety Issues

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• Safety Issues
• Physics Department All Hands Meeting
• March 20, 2009
• M. J. Zarcone
• Mgr. for ESSHT Programs

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Safety News

• Highlights of the Department EMS/OHSAS/ESH
  Management Review
• The Physics Department did well on the recent EMS
  and OHSAS audits
• The Physics Department maintained a level of 97
  of required training completed for employees and
  85 for guests as of 9/30/08.
• The average number of hours spent in training by
  Physics Employees was 7 hours.
• Tier Is - No situations involving 'imminent
  danger' were discovered. Housekeeping, Working
  Environment Plant (lighting), Electrical Safety
  Distribution (daisy chaining, blocked breaker
  panels), and Electrical Safety Equipment (bad
  cords) make up 2/3 of the issues.
• Whole body exposures continue to be very low with
  a total cumulative exposure of 28 mRem for the
  entire year. This has been the case for the
  previous 5 years where the annual exposures in
  mRem were 24, 0, 56, 50, and 33 for the years
  2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003 respectively.
  Doses at the ATF for the complex continue to
  remain below 100 mRem as seen on the area
  monitors.
• There was 1 first aid case last year, no DART or
  recordable cases. The 2008 DART was 0.00 (per
  200,000 hours worked) The TRC rate is 0.00 per
  200,000 hours worked.
• 1 incident - Employee entered an area controlled
  for radiological purposes without his required
  TLD.

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Department Incidents/Accidents

• Corrective Actions
• 08 - Reminder for all TLD wearers to not leave
  badge in Controlled Areas
• 09 - Slipping on ice Use Ice Melt
• 09 - Be careful of the lesser hazards while
  focusing on greater hazards we sometimes forget
  the lesser ones
• ATF Fire
• What we know so far
• What we are doing on the Accident Investigation
  Committee
• Emergency Procedures Drill helped
• Personnel followed procedures
• 3 Hit cars in SW parking lot request for an
  evaluation
• No Smoking in Lab vehicles

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Pictures from Fire
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Pictures from Fire
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Pictures from Fire