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Title: Panel Session 81: Engaging on Safety at the Work Face - Workers, Front Line Managers, and Subcontractors

Conference ·
OSTI ID:23005295
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  1. Fluor Corporation (United States)
  2. URS/CH2M (United States)
  3. Fluor Idaho - North Wind Group (United States)
  4. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (Canada)
  5. Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States)
  6. Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership (United States)
  7. URS/CH2M Oak Ridge - UCOR (United States)

This panel focuses on engaging on safety at the work face, with the people who are there every day. This panel will discuss management approaches deployed to directly engage internal and subcontracted workers that have delivered measurable improvements in safety performance and culture. The panelists will share what they did that worked and their perspectives on why. About 24 to 30 people were in attendance. All statements below are paraphrased by the panel reporter and should not be considered direct quotes by the panelists. Presentations proposed include: 1 - Engaging on Safety at the Work Face: Workers, Front Line Managers, and Subcontractors (Jan Preston, Fluor Corporation (USA)); 2 - Responsibility for Safety: Workers and Line Management Joining Together to Improve Performance (Cynthia Williams, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (Canada)); 3 - Worker Involvement: Trust and the Processing of the Remediated Nitrate Salts (David Funk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)); 4 - Safety Culture: How Employee Engagement is Transforming the Paducah Site (Myrna Espinosa Redfield, Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership (USA)); 5 - Hazard Identification and Control: Subcontractor Performance, Oversight, and Continuous Improvement (Clint Wolfley, URS/CH2M Oak Ridge - UCOR (USA)); 6 - Managing Safety Performance Through Change (Alice Doswell, Fluor (USA))

Research Organization:
WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
OSTI ID:
23005295
Report Number(s):
INIS-US-21-WM-19-PS-081; TRN: US21V1443045629
Resource Relation:
Conference: WM2019: 45. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 3-7 Mar 2019; Other Information: Country of input: France; available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2019/index.html
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English