Enhanced Glovebox Integrity Inspections and Glovebox Community of Practice

December 2024

This Operating Experience Level 3 (OE-3) document is to recommend enhanced integrity inspections for gloveboxes in support of increased mission activity in plutonium production and to raise awareness of a new glovebox Community of Practice (CoP) across the Department of Energy (DOE) Enterprise promoting learning from operating experience related to glovebox hazards.  

The recommendations in this OE-3 are based on lessons from a review of events associated with glovebox operations across DOE, including National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in the Calendar Year (CY) 2021-2024 timeframe.

OE-3: 2024-04: Enhanced Glovebox Integrity Inspections and Glovebox Community of Practice