AMWTP Control of Work

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AMWTP Control of Work

• How To Set Safety
• and Production Records
• at the Same Time
• Scott Raish
• Vice President and Plant Manager
• September 12, 2006

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AMWTP Site
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AMWTPs Mission Status

• The U.S. Department of Energys Advanced Mixed
  Waste Treatment Project is committed to safely,
  compliantly and efficiently ship 65,000 cubic
  meters of stored transuranic waste out of Idaho
  to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
  
• Status through Sept. 1, 2006
• More than 12,000 cubic meters shipped since 2002
• 53,000 cubic meters to go
• All stored transuranic waste out of Idaho by
  2012,
• DOE Project Management Plan
• Settlement Agreement 2015 target
• Settlement Agreement 2018 compliance

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Treatment Processes

• Boxes
• Emptied, waste is identified and sorted
• Packaged into sacrificial drums
• Sacrificial drums are crushed into pucks
• Approx. 5-6 pucks packed into 100 gallon drums
• Shipped out of Idaho
• Drums
• Sorted and identified
• Shipped out of Idaho

Best shipping value is compacted pucks placed
into 100 gallon drums
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Waste Storage Retrieval
Below Workers uncover waste containers buried in
soil
Above Waste drum removal in the Retrieval
Enclosure
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Characterization
Left The real-time radiography x-ray of a drum
Right The drum coring glovebox
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Treatment Facility
Top Left AMWTP Treatment Facility Top Right A
Brokk floor-mounted manipulator Left Part of the
Facilitys remote waste handling system
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Supercompactor
Sacrificial drums with debris
Puck cross-section
The interior of the AMWTP Supercompactor.
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Loading and Shipping
Right Workers load a TRUPACT II container Below
A waste shipment headed to the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant in New Mexico
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Project Human Performance Culture

• Worker Involvement

Tell them and they will forget. Show them and
they will remember. Involve them and they will
understand. . . . Albert Einstein
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Project Human Performance Culture

• True understanding of Super vision
• 24/7 coverage (including support staff)
• In the field watching work (big picture)
• In the field issue resolution
• Functional support as a part of the work crews
• Observing, coaching and mentoring

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Project Human Performance Culture

• Questioning attitude by all personnel
• Healthy feeling of uneasiness
• Willingness to step back and stop work
• A trusting work environment
• Error Reduction Tools
• Review of error precursors
• Pre-job briefings
• Identification of latent organizational
  weaknesses
• Identification of flawed defenses

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Project Human Performance Culture

• Effective communication structure
• Shift turnovers
• Interactive pre- and post-job briefings
• Employee communication tools,
• e.g., ESIT, KEYS and ISMS Communications
  committee, Project Notes

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Project Human Performance Culture

• Comfort with using control sets
• Employee involvement selecting controls
• Engineering Controls
• PPE and Level B suit selection, control
  specification for fork trucks
• Use of mock-ups
• Trained to work in skill (standards) based mode
• Value feedback
• Post job briefings
• Lessons learned
• Management encourages opportunities to improve

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Work Control Process

• Incorporates requirements (laws, orders, etc.)
• An integrated system based on ISM principles
• Defines scope of work
• Analyzes hazards
• Develops and implements hazard controls
• Performs work
• Provides feedback mechanism
• Integrates radiological and conventional hazard
  identification/control

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Work Control Key Components

• Pre-Job briefing
• Authorization
• Perform work
• Work status record
• Post-Job briefing record maintenance history
• Work acceptance and closure

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The Flow
Preventive/Predictive Maintenance
Repair Maintenance Approved FMP
Routine Operations
Work Order Prompted Automatically
Prepare a Work Request
Procedure Required?
No
Analyze and Plan the Job
Yes
Develop the Draft Procedure and Implement the
Hazard Identification and Mitigation
Obtain Work Order From CMMS
Feedback
Request PTW (RPTW) from SSWC
Validate and Approve the Procedure.
Yes
No
AMOW required?
No
Obtain PTW
Pre-Job Brief and Authorize Work
Yes
Feedback
Prepare AMOW
Complete Work
Pre-Job Brief and Authorize Work
Post-Job Brief and Record Maintenance History
Yes
Maintenance Related
Complete Work
No
Done
Post-Job Brief and Record Activity in Log
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Application

• Graded approach to documents required by the
  process depending on complexity and routine
  nature of the work
• First Level
• Operations exempt activities (may, or may not
  require an AMOW)
• Procedure development with the hazards identified
  and mitigated
• Approved Method of Work (AMOW), for routine
  maintenance and operational activities (Similar
  to general JSA and RWP combined)
• Second Level
• Request for Permit to Work (RPTW) for minor work
  activities meeting specific criteria
• Third Level
• Permit to Work (PTW) for complex, abnormal,
  and/or safety significant work activities
• Incorporates worker involvement at all levels

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Key Positions

• Technical Expert (TE)
• Engineering, Nuclear/Criticality Safety, Quality
  SPM, etc.
• Performs hazard assessments as assigned
• Procedures/instructions, AMOWs, RPTWs, PTWs
• Worker
• Participates in hazard assessments
• Reviews, signs and follows applicable AMOWs
• Follows requirements documented on RPTWs
• Signs for acceptance and follows requirements
  documented on PTWs

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Key Positions

• Radiological Shift Team Leader (RSTL)
• Defines radiological precautions and limitations
  for AMOWs and PTWs
• Industrial Safety/Industrial Hygiene
• Reviews and concurs with non-radiological hazards
  and mitigations for AMOWs, RPTWs (as necessary),
  and PTWs
• Shift Manager (SM)
• Authorizes issuance of the AMOWs, RPTWs, and/or
  PTWs
• Safe System of Work Controller (SSWC)
• Issues AMOWs, RPTWs, and/or PTWs

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Safety and Production
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AMWTP Meeting The Mission
With our demonstrated ability to meet all
applicable Settlement Agreement milestones,
Bechtel BWXT Idaho is proud to manage and operate
AMWTP, the cornerstone of DOEs commitment to
safely prepare and ship waste out of Idaho.