Managing Safety Issues
Office of Environment, Health, Safety & Security
May 31, 2024
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May 2024
Everyone’s active participation in the identification and resolution of issues before they result in negative consequences provides the best outcomes for safety and mission accomplishment. This Operating Experience Level 3 (OE-3) document provides information to more proactively and effectively resolve safety issues across the Department of Energy (DOE) complex. More specifically, this OE-3 raises awareness of significant and extensive weaknesses identified in the management of safety issues in DOE. It also provides recommendations to improve the management of safety issues based on highly successful practices used by some DOE contractors and other Federal agencies.