1998 ORPS Users’ Workshop and TRADE
Occurrence Reporting Special Interest Group(OR SIG)
Spring Meeting
Aiken, South Carolina
May 4-7, 1998

HIGHLIGHTS

Opening Comments

 Dan Connell, former Occurrence Reporting Special Interest Group (OR SIG) Chair, opened the 1998 ORPS Users’ Workshop/OR SIG Spring Meeting and welcomed attendees. Mr. Connell also introduced the nominees for the OR SIG Steering Committee.

Dick Tansky, Site Training Manager, also welcomed workshop/meeting attendees to the Aiken/Augusta area, and gave an Evacuation/Safety Orientation of the SRS Training Center.

Attendance

 145 persons attended the 1998 ORPS Users’ Workshop/OR SIG Spring Meeting. The list of attendees can be found in a separate document "1998 ORPS Users’ Workshop/OR SIG Spring Meeting Attendees." The breakdown is as follows:

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General Session

 Tom Rollow, Director, Office of Operating Experience Analysis and Feedback, presented an update on DOE/EH-33 activities titled "A Look to the Future." Mr. Rollow spoke about the challenges that system users’ face today, which is that the quantity of data available (through ORPS, CAIRS, REMS, Contractor self-assessment, oversight reviews, contract performance measures, accident investigations, ORRs, etc.) Is more than our ability to provide insightful analysis and impairs our ability to make truly informed decisions. He spoke of the many successes of today’s systems to include: extensive analysis of ORPS; the fact that radiation events are trended; ORR results; accident investigations; oversight targeted reviews; and others.

Mr. Rollow discussed some visions for the future. First, he discussed an interim feedback and improvement system which could be a textual database. While this system would provide a powerful search tool, it could be fairly labor intensive. He then presented the ideal feedback and improvement system which would be the integration of many systems to include self-assessment reports, event reports (ORPS), contract performance measures, ORRs, accident investigations, oversight reviews, OSH data (CAIRS), and medical surveillances. These systems would be integrated via a strict format into one database which could then provide pushed reports, issue reports, and offer user defined/search reports.

Lastly, Mr. Rollow spoke about the many short term gains on the way. These include the ORPS short form; easier data searches; more consistent and easier to read ORPS reports; push reports (ORPS); significance levels; and others.

The Department of Energy Standards Committee will be addressing many of these issues in the near future. Ideas are welcome and should be forwarded to Tom Rollow, EH-33, tom.rollow@eh.doe.gov, phone 202-586-7449.

The K-25 Incident Video, was presented by Cynthia Eubanks, Bechtel Jacobs, L.L.C. (formerly of Lockheed Martin energy Systems). In February, 1997, a welder at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge was fatally burned when his anti-contamination clothing caught fire. Results of the investigation revealed several lessons learned related to safe work practices that contributed to this incident. As part of their commitment to communicate the lessons learned from this incident across the DOE complex, in hopes that similar incidents can be prevented in the future, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems produced a lessons learned video. This video included a compilation of comments from friends, co-workers, and family to help viewers feel the pain that is experienced when a worker is fatally injured due to unsafe work practices.

OR SIG Steering Committee Election Results

 The OR SIG elected three (3) new Steering Committee Members during the general session of the 1998 ORPS Users’ Workshop/OR SIG Spring Meeting. The following people were elected: Karen Chandler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Glenn Morris, DOE/OR; and Tom Rotella, DOE/DP-45.

In addition, Cynthia Eubanks, Bechtel Jacobs, L.L.C., was elected Chair of the OR SIG Steering Committee.
Recognition of Outgoing OR SIG Steering Committee Member and Chair A framed Certificate of Appreciation was given to outgoing OR SIG Steering Committee member Kim Wilson, WVNS. Although Kim leaves the OR SIG Steering Committee, she has assumed the Lead of the Users’ Group Task Team.

A plaque was presented to Dan Connell, DynCorp Tri-Cities Services, Inc., in appreciation for his leadership as the OR SIG Chair since the SIG’s inception in 1992.

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