The Strategic Petroleum Reserve's Behavioral Safety Program is the foundation for ISM implementation. In the second full year of this program, contractor personnel at the sites exhibited safe behaviors 95 percent of the time as determined by observations by fellow workers. There was only one serious injury out of 25,000 permitted work activities. This was a non-fatal electrical accident at Big Hill where a subcontractor employee was hurt. An Expanded Type C accident investigation was performed and a report was issued in July.
All corrective actions are complete.
During the year, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve achieved a significant milestone in its ergonomic program with the completion of an ergonomic assessment. Outside experts analyzed field and office workstations at all sites, job-specific findings were ranked by risk, and recommendations were made. All critical and marginal risks will be addressed in fiscal year 2000, and other lower risks in fiscal year 2001. This EA supported a proposed action to lease up to 70 million barrels of unused Big Hill storage capacity to other parties for crude oil storage. The EA concluded that impacts would not be materially different in nature or degree from those currently experienced under permitted operations, and were already covered under existing NEPA documentation.