# Presentation: 722540

- THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- TONY HASS
- May 7, 2008

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- November 4, 2006
- 1028 hours
- Defense Waste Processing Facility, S-Area
- Savannah River Site
- Organic Acid Sump High Alarm
- Vitrification (VIT) Control Room Verified Formic Acid Spill in 422-S and Notified     Site Emergency Duty Officer (EDO)

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- November 4, 2006
- 1031 hours
- Defense Waste Processing Facility, S-Area
- Savannah River Site
- Protective Action – Remain Indoors Issued for S-Area by VIT Control Room Manager
- SRS Fire Department Dispatched

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- November 4, 2006
- 1039 hours
- Defense Waste Processing Facility, S-Area
- Savannah River Site
- Formic Acid Spill
- Area Emergency Coordinator (AEC) and EDO Declared Site Area Emergency

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- 1040 hours SRS Protective Action – Remain Indoors Issued
- 1044 hours Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Pagers Activated
- 1049 hours DOE-HQs Received SRS Emergency Notification Form
- 1053 DWPF Completed Accountability
- 1153 hours SRS Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Completed Turnover Briefing and    Activated

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- How did we do it?
- How did we respond and activate the EOC on a weekend so quickly?
- Why did it seem the activities and actions of the EDO and ERO flowed so well during the response?

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- ERO Monthly Training Drills
- Focused on Key objectives – most important actions
- Pager Activation
- Training of ERO members on the most likely incidents
- KISS – Did not make the drill    complicated

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- ERO Monthly Training Drills
- 1st Thursday of each month
- 2 hour drill
- Each ERO rotation received the same drill
- Compared responses – identified inconsistent actions or trends
- Lessons Learned
- Corrective actions implemented

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- Focused on Key Objectives
- Communications
- Notifications
- Safety
- Classification
- Consequence Management
- Timely Actions

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- Pager Activation
- Satellite on facility drill
- Integrate facility TSR
- Timely response to pager
- Focused on Good Turnover briefing
- Emergency Notification Form - Accuracy
- Information flow - Consistent

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- Training of ERO members on the most likely incidents
- Facility hazard – past occurrences or engineering input
- Natural disaster – tornado/hurricane/dam failure
- Transportation – radiological or chemical
- Security – suspicious letter or package

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- KISS – Did not make the drill complicated
- Simple accident or incident
- Informed players that this was what we were assessing
- Did not put in any distracters
- Controllers coached players
- Critiques focused on to do things better – positive reinforcement (no criticizing        player performance)

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- At The Critique Following Termination of the SRS Emergency Event the Comment by Emergency Manager Phil Breidenbach:
- “THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL”
_**That says it all**_

## THIS WAS JUST LIKE A DRILL

- QUESTIONS?
**Robert A. (Tony) Hass**
**Washington Savannah River Company**
**Emergency Management Department**
**Drill & Exercises and Offsite Interactions **
**Building 703-43A**
**Aiken, South Carolina 29808**
**(803) 725-7419 (Office)**
**(803) 725-2017 (Fax)**
**robert.hass@srs.gov**