# Presentation: 838403

## Using EMS Targets to Reduce Chemical InventoryJune 3, 2008

- Kristin Klossner
- Clover Leaf Environmental Solutions
- Albuquerque, NM

**Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.**

**Notes:**
From here on in, we’re going to enter a mythical world. 

## Slide 2

**Notes:**
Depiction of the hero’s journey 
Show of hands: how many people have read Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey? Okay then, how about Star Wars. Luke Skywalker went on a hero’s journey So did Anakin. Frodo in Lord of the Rings, Homer in the Iliad, Neo in the Matrix, Beowulf all made this journey. A community in a harmonious paradise is threatened by evil; normal institutions fail to contend with this threat; a selfless superhero emerges to renounce temptations and carry out the redemptive task; aided by fate, his decisive victory restores the community to its paradisiacal condition; the superhero then recedes into obscurity. 
Any of you who have participated in the introduction of a new program at a facility or institution program will recognize many of these steps. If you haven’t done it and are planning to: take Yoda’s advise to Luke Skywalker who said he wasn’t afraid “You will be, you will be.”

## Home Culture

- Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) is a national security facility owned by the Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company.
- SNL/NM designs non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons, performs energy research and development projects, and develops projects to address national security
- Employs approximately 10,000 employees and contractors. The  mix ranges from PhD-level scientists and engineers to blue collar technicians.
- Located on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico

**Notes:**
Home culture is the place that the protagonist thinks is normal and familiar.
We know that scientists and engineers can be a tad analytical and skeptical.  They all seem to be from Missouri.

## Home Culture

- Ongoing tension between researchers and support functions
- Researcher autonomy is valued to preserve creativity
- Resistance and skepticism to change, authority and centralization
- Laid back supportive atmosphere can create lack of accountability

## Home Culture

**SNL has over 120,000 containers of chemicals with 25,000 of those being unique chemicals**

## Home Culture

- This is the story of one Division at Sandia (there are nine).
- Division 2000,Weapons Engineering and Product Realization conducts R&D and production activities mostly in laboratory environments.
- It employs nearly 1500 employees and contractors
- Division 2000 had about 22,000 chemical containers before the reduction effort
- Most lab activities involve small-scale experiments and require small amounts of a variety of chemicals

**Notes:**
the

## Slide 7

**Notes:**
We want people to look at their chemicals

## Home Culture

- The division is divided into six Centers. Each Center has an ES&H Coordinator (heroes).

**Notes:**
the

## Slide 9

## The Heroes

## Slide 11

**Notes:**
A normal occurrence motivates the hero to find a world she or he did not know existed.

## Call To Adventure

- Estimated 40% of the Division’s laboratory waste is unused chemicals (unopened, partially used, expired)
- Chemical management and disposal can cost 6 times the purchase price of chemicals
- 	Example: 1 Gallon Acetone Purchase Cost = $43.15
-                     1 Gallon Acetone Disposal Cost =  $128.64
- Old chemicals can be a safety hazard due to chemical instability or container deterioration.

**Notes:**
Inefficient packaging, MSDS management, inventory tracking, regulatory reporting, regulatory liability, spill cleanup, inventory handling, necessary equipment (flamm cabs), support staff

## Slide 13

**Notes:**
The hero is provided a supernatural guarding character to assist his/her step forward into the unknown.

## Supernatural Aid-Management Commitment

**Steve Rottler, Division Vice President and Wizard**

## Slide 15

**Notes:**
The hero moves out of their comfort zone and walks alone.

## Crossing the Threshold

**Division 2000 EMS TEAM**

- To provide leadership for  Center and Division environmental matters and to achieve best-in-class operational performance.

**2007 Chemical Reduction Objectives and Targets**

**Objective**

**Target**

**Due Date**

**Owner**

**Status**

| Reduce chemical inventories (target chemicals over 5 years old) by 10% utilizing 6S events and other methodologies. | Reduce number of chemicals over five years old. | 3/15/2007 | Saltzstein | Labs have eliminated 17% of old chemicals. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

## Slide 17

**Notes:**
The hero is tested and found vulnerable. Assistance is given from the supernatural aid.

## The AbyssAvoiding the Five Deadly Myths

- “I can’t get the chemical I want when I need it so I need to keep a lot on hand.”
- “I get a great price break when I buy in bulk.”
- “There’s no expiration date, therefore the chemical is still good.”
- This is just a flavor of the week initiative and if I ignore it, it will go away.”
- “I don’t have (you pick) a) time b) money c) resources d) any possible combination of the first three.

**Notes:**
The hero is tested and found to be vulnerable.  Assistance from the Supernatural being comes into play here so the hero does not have to face the trials alone.

## The AbyssAvoiding the Five Deadly Myths

- Make it voluntary
- Use sensible parameters-visual
- Make it competitive
- Establish a baseline
- Report progress often
- Be prepared to de-bunk the myths
- Reward success

**Notes:**
Rewards: VP emails and personal thanks to lab owners and managers, nominated and won environmental excellence award at Sandia

## Slide 20

**Notes:**
The hero meets an ideal and sees the possibilities of the journey.

## Meeting with the Goddess

## Lean Manufacturing Tools

_**6 S Events**_
- Sort
- Straighten
- Shine
- Standardize
- Safety
- Sustain

## Slide 23

## Lean Manufacturing Tools

**Kanban **
- Kanban is a lean manufacturing term for inventory control
- This method utilized at Sandia uses taped-off and labeled storage areas for each item and cards for re-order
- It is a simple system to allow the user to easily see when new chemicals need to be ordered and when there is an excess

## Slide 25

## Slide 26

## Treasure

**23% reduction**
**Eliminated over 5,000 containers of old chemicals**

## Slide 28

**Notes:**
Hero combines the old world into the new.

## Master of Two Worlds

- Get management commitment if you can
- True cost of chemicals is a great driver but so is friendly competition
- Most rational lab owners see the value of a clean, well organized lab with well-controlled chemicals
- Expect resistance

## The Moral of the Story

- No chemical inventory reduction targets in 2008
- In 2007:  7739 containers over five years old
- Now:       7409
- Time works against us
- Need more aggressive prevention measures
- Another effort in 2009

## Sources

- Campbell, Joseph. _[The Hero with a Thousand Faces](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces)_. Princeton: _[Princeton University Press](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University_Press)__, 1949._
- Jewett, Robert and John Shelton Lawrence (1977) *The American Monomyth*. New York: Doubleday.
- _Questions_
- Kristin Klossner
- Clover Leaf Environmental Solutions
- kklossner@cloversolutions.us
- 505-844-9204