Audit of staffing requirements at the Westinghouse Savannah River Company

Technical Report · Tue Jan 25 04:00:00 EST 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10129032· OSTI ID:10129032

The Westinghouse Savannah River Company operates the Savannah River Site for the US Department of Energy (Department) under a cost-plus-award-fee contract. Department policies require contractors to ensure a high level of performance in operating Department facilities by establishing operating standards, assessing performance against such standards, and holding contractor employees accountable for their performance. The purpose of the audit was to review Westinghouse`s policies and practices for determining staffing requirements. Since assuming responsibility for the Savannah River Site in 1989, Westinghouse increased its staffing by over 4,000 employees. The Department had undertaken some actions to reduce the number of contractor employees at the Savannah River Site. Our audit showed that the use of industry and federal performance work standards in its construction and management activities could enable Westinghouse to further reduce its staff by over 1,800 employees. The potential savings in salaries and benefits associated with such action could be about $399 million over a 5-year period. Additional staffing reductions could be attained through the use of engineered time standards in the maintenance and fabrication shops. In addition, Westinghouse significantly understated, in periodic reports to the Department, the personnel resources applied to accomplish contract requirements. Of course, the actual staffing reductions realized would be largely determined by the manner in which the work standards are implemented and the levels of proficiency attained by the workforce.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Inspector General, Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Eastern Regional Audit Office
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 10129032
• Report Number(s): DOE/IG--0340; ON: TI94007461; NC: NONE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990100
AUDITS
CONTRACTORS
MANAGEMENT
MANPOWER
PERFORMANCE
PERSONNEL
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT