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NSTX-U Supported by Safety Coll of Wm & Mary Columbia U CompX General Atomics FIU INL Johns Hopkins U LANL LLNL Lodestar MIT Lehigh U Nova Photonics Old Dominion ORNL PPPL Princeton U Purdue U SNL Think Tank, Inc. UC Davis UC Irvine UCLA UCSD U Colorado U Illinois U Maryland U Rochester U Tennessee U Tulsa U Washington U Wisconsin X Science LLC Culham Sci Ctr York U Chubu U Fukui U Hiroshima U Hyogo U Kyoto U Kyushu U Kyushu Tokai U NIFS Niigata U U Tokyo JAEA Inst for Nucl Res, Kiev Ioffe Inst TRINITI Chonbuk Natl U NFRI KAIST POSTECH Seoul Natl U ASIPP CIEMAT FOM Inst DIFFER ENEA, Frascati CEA, Cadarache IPP, Jülich IPP, Garching ASCR, Czech Rep Jerry Levine Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NSTX Upgrade Project Office of Science Review LSB B318 May 2 - 3, 2012
Construction Safety Are construction efforts being executed safely?
Ongoing Safety Efforts • ES&H subject matter experts are assigned to provide support and oversight to NSTX-U. • Health Physics (HP) Coordinator (P. Bruno) • Health Physics (HP) Representative (HP technician) • Industrial Hygiene (IH) Representative (W. Slavin) • Construction Safety Representative (N. Gerrish) • •Additional oversight/support provided by IH and Electrical Safety professionals.
Ongoing Safety Efforts Safety & Health Physics professionals: • Participate in plan-of-the day (8:00 AM) meetings (as does ESH&S Department Head). • Participate in pre-job briefings where the Job Hazard Analyses (JHA’s) and Radiation Work Permits (RWPs) are reviewed by workers. • Do regular field walkdowns to assess safety of ongoing work & engage workers and supervisors as needed. • Provide guidance on specific safety issues, e.g., ergonomics, ventilation of soldering gases, monitoring of potential activation product intake (whole body scans for grinding & welding), noise mitigation, fall protection, etc. Supervisors conduct STOP observations to engage workers and encourage safe behaviors.
Ongoing Safety Efforts • NSTX-U safety record has been excellent. • -No recordable injuries or illnesses to date. • -No significant radiological exposures or uptakes. • Serious skidsteer accident in March is being extensively evaluated for root causes and extent of conditions. • Although event did not involve NSTX-U workers or equipment, lessons are being applied Lab-wide. • Some equipment used on Upgrade work was taken out of service for a short period to ensure its safety.
Summary Trained, experienced and engaged workers and supervisors using well-developed work planning & control processes, combined with support and oversight of ES&H professionals are assuring that NSTX-U construction is being executed safely. Lessons learned from skidsteer accident will be applied to NSTX-U activities.