Integrating Emergency Alerting On The Hanford Site

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Integrating Emergency Alerting On The Hanford Site
D. J. Connell, DirectorEmergency
Preparedness daniel_j_connell_at_rl.gov
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560 Square Miles
Grant County
3 DOE Operations Office
34 Hazardous Facilities
Benton County
Approximate population 17,000
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Regulatory Requirements(for warning and alerting
systems)

• The following two statutory requirements identify
  where the Hanford Site Emergency Alerting System
  (HSEAS) has limitations
• 1910.165(b)(2) - The employee alarm shall be
  capable of being perceived above ambient noise or
  light levels by all employees in the affected
  portions of the workplace. Tactile (pager)
  devices may be used to alert those employees who
  would not otherwise be able to recognize the
  audible or visual alarm.
• 1910.165(b)(5) The employer shall establish
  procedures for sounding emergency alarms in the
  workplace. For those employers with ten or fewer
  employees in a particular workplace, direct voice
  communication is an acceptable procedure for
  sounding the alarm provided all employees can
  hear the alarm. Such workplaces need not have a
  back up system.

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History

• Current system uses crash alarm telephones,
  sirens, AM radio station, and facility sirens
• Expensive to maintain and has questionable
  conformance to 29CFR1910-165(b)(5)
• CFR requires that warning information must be
  perceived by all employees. Our indoor warning
  system (crash alarm telephones) relies on
  verbally passing warning instructions to many
  employees.
• RL and FH Emergency Preparedness began developing
  a project to upgrade the HSEAS in 1998 Project
  L-304. Project budget was delayed for six years.

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Current Performance Problems

• Outdoor Warning Sirens
• Does not address notification for the hearing
  impaired or employees in high noise areas
• Not designed to warn personnel transiting Hanford
  Site or personnel located indoors
• AM Radio Station
• Designed to warn personnel transiting Hanford
  Site, but is a low power radio station with a
  small coverage area, including no coverage in
  some areas with signs instructing the driver to
  tune to the radio station
• Reader boards connected to the AM radio station
  routinely fail to operate

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Current Performance Problems

• Crash Alarm Telephone System (CATS)
• Response rate during known events of only 50 to
  75 percent the notification process takes 20 to
  25 minutes to warn the large operational areas
  (200E, 200W, 300)
• Most significant problem relies on human
  interaction to receive the message, and
  word-of-mouth to relay it to others within the
  facility

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Current Emergency Notification System

• The current emergency alerting systems at best
  only notify 15 percent of 14,000 Hanford workers
  at 600 a.m. and 45 percent at 100 p.m.

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New System CharacteristicsAutomated
Redundant Integrated

• Integrate existing and new systems into a
  comprehensive warning system
• AM radio with reader boards
• Outdoor warning sirens
• Computer network messaging (HLAN, BLAN, PNNL,
  TLAN) New
• Telephones and cell phones
• Pagers
• Portable radios
• Elimination of expensive and ineffective CATS

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Hanford Site Wired IAT

• IVDTS
• Integrated Voice
• Data Telecom System
• 5ESS
• Transport

Commercial Wireless Voice System
ATT
Conference Bridge
Primary
Verizon
Sprint
Tone Alert Radio
RF Link
TAR
Nextel
Base Station Input POC/ONC/EOC
CentrAlert
Digital Special Circuit to Demarcation Server
HLAN Hanford Local Area Network
Instant Messaging System
Instant Messaging System
RF Link
PNNL BNI/BHI CHG/LIGO US Ecology
Sirens
Special Circuit
EXCHANGE SERVERS
AM Station
Other Site Contractors

RF Link
SITE PAGING TERMINAL

• Sprint
• NEXTEL
• Kelly
• Text Msg

Outdoor/Traffic Warning System
Reader Boards
HLAN Text Messaging Screen Pop-up
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New System Characteristics(2002 Engineering
Study)

• Combined System Efficiency
• 600 a.m., morning commute best case, will
  notify approximately 100 percent of all Hanford
  workers (indoors, outdoors, and in transit)
  within three (3) minutes (multiple notifications)
• 100 p.m., mid day best case, will notify
  approximately 100 percent of all Hanford workers
  (indoors, outdoors, and in transit) within three
  (3) minutes (multiple notifications)

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Proposed HSEAS Effectiveness

• The system at a minimum would notify 117 percent
  of 14,000 Hanford workers at 600 a.m., and 194
  percent at 100 p.m. (multiple notifications)

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Life Cycle Cost Savings

• Life cycle cost savings
• Annual 43,750 (eliminates current maintenance
  and operations costs for the CATS)
• 20 year life cycle 875,000

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Preliminary Schedule Project L-304

• Conceptual design review begin 11/04
• Definitive design funding 04/05
• Construction complete 09/05
• System testing 11/05
• System user training 12/05
• System cutover 01/06

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Lessons Learned To Date

• Start early gain support at the highest levels
• Technology changes at an incredibly fast rate
• Rely on existing infrastructure as much as
  possible database, telecommunications
• Beware of turf and agendas DOE, bargaining unit,
  contractors, computer security
• Hire an experienced project manager

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Questions?