Report on the EH special review of occupational safety and health programs for the Hanford high-level waste tanks

Title: Report on the EH special review of occupational safety and health programs for the Hanford high-level waste tanks

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This report documents a review of the occupational safety and health programs currently in effect at the tank farms located at the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. The review was undertaken by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health (EH) at the request of the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) to determine whether issues important to worker safety and health have been properly identified, prioritized, and resolved. To carry out this task, four categories of safety and health activities were reviewed. The first category involved examination of management issues associated with the toxicity, flammability, and explosivity of gases and vapors generated by wastes. The second focused on waste tank characterization and technology programs that have been initiated at Hanford to identify, characterize and mitigate hazards associated with tanks generating hydrogen or containing ferrocyanides or organic compounds. The third evaluated worker safety and health programs necessary to support hazardous waste site operations it the tank farms. The fourth dealt with interim corrective actions currently in place, pending full implementation of site-specific safety and health programs to address waste vapor toxicity, flammability, and explosivity hazards.

Publication Date:: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

Research Org.:: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, Washington, DC (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 10191046

Report Number(s):: DOE/EH-0289T
ON: DE93003763; NC: NONE

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: Nov 1992

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; HANFORD RESERVATION; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; FERROCYANIDES; FLAMMABILITY; COMBUSTION; HYDROGEN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; TANKS; VAPORS; TOXICITY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; 052002; 054000; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE; HEALTH AND SAFETY

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