So it was reported at last week's outbrief of the first onsite, Department of Energy Topical Committee Meeting for the Advancement of Behavior-Based Safety. The objective is to form a direct tie with DOE facilities that are promoting behavioral safety. Through such partnerships it hopes to enhance the processes, methodology, and evaluation of behavior-based safety programs throughout the complex. Los Alamos joins a host of other agencies on the Topical Committee. Among them are Savannah River Site, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Collected data provides a metric for measuring safety and for solving safety problems.
As it matures, I'm confident that safety in NMT division will continue to show marked improvement. The consultant firm Behavior Science Technology Inc. was contracted and a worker-based program was soon in place. In the late 1990s, NMT followed suit. Timely Observations Measures Increased Commitment to Safety. According to George, NMT plans to have 250 employees trained in the BBS evaluation process by May 2001.