The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) HAMMER Federal Training Center and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory co-hosted this year’s gathering of the Training Working Group of the Energy Facility Contractors Group at the Hanford Site.
The Hanford Fire Department is using prescribed burns at the 580-square-mile EM cleanup site to reduce wildfire risks in the late spring and summer.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is educating workers on everyday workplace hazards with a hands-on, peer-led mobile field course.
An employee with EM Hanford Site 222-S Laboratory contractor Navarro-ATL recently encountered a chemical that required removal from the site by the local explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit after the chemical was placed in a safe configuration.
The award-winning Savannah River Site (SRS) Canine Program helped host 27 teams from South Carolina and North Carolina as they participated in annual trials of the nation’s oldest and largest police canine organization.
EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project safely demolished a former security guardhouse built in 1965, one of the first facilities constructed at the former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.
The biggest snowstorm in more than three decades here amid single-digit temperatures presented several challenges to EM’s operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation.
The training team at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently added an extra level of realism to employee trainings by upgrading classrooms and adding new props.
Environmental science technicians have upgraded their equipment and taken other steps to make jobs safer at EM’s Portsmouth Site, helping eliminate slip, trip and fall hazards at multiple difficult-to-reach locations.
For the next several years, crews with EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) can breathe easy while preparing the Hanford Site’s Reduction Oxidation Plant for demolition.