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  Annual Facility Representative Workshop  

The 2005 Facility Representative Workshop
May 17 - 19, 2005
Las Vegas, NV
Facility Rep of the Year Award  |  Attendees list  |  Summary Report [PDF]


WORKSHOP AGENDA 
Final

Day 1: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
  8:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
John Evans, Facility Representative Program Manager
  8:15 a.m. Welcome
Kathy Carlson, Manager Nevada Site Office
  8:30 a.m. Videotaped Remarks from the Secretary
Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy
  8:40 a.m. Keynote Address - Safety Oversight at the Idaho Site
Beth Sellers, Manager NE-ID
  9:10 a.m. Facility Representative of the Year Presentation
Mark B. Whitaker, Jr.,
Departmental Representative to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DR-1)


(To see more pictures, click on Workshop Pictures on the left bar)
  9:45 a.m. Break
  10:00 a.m. Perspective from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Joseph Bader, Member DNFSB
  10:30 a.m. Senior Management Panel
Moderator: John Evans
Beth Sellers; Kathy Carlson; Mark B. Whitaker; Bill Brumley, Manager Y-12 Site Office; Roy Schepens, Manager, Office of River Protection; Michael Weis, Deputy Manager, Richland Operations Office

  12:00 p.m. Lunch
  1:30 p.m. Hooked On Safety
Billy Robbins, Jubilee Enterprises, Inc.
  3:30 p.m. Break
  3:45 p.m. DOE Management of the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant
Todd Shrader, WTP Engineering Division
  4:15 p.m. Facility Representative Program Summary
John Evans

Day 2: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
  7:50 a.m. Introduction
John Evans
  8:00 a.m. The New DOE Operating Experience Program
Frank Tooper, Director office of Corporate Performance Assessment,
Office of Environment, Safety and Health

  8:45 a.m. Break
  9:00 a.m. Facility Representatives Sharing of Good Practices and Lessons Learned (4)
  • Facility Rep Response to a Radiological Overexposure Event
    Glyn Trenchard, ORP Facility Rep
  • Radiation Overexposure Event at West Valley
    Bill Hunt, WVDP Facility Rep
  • Assessment of Uptake Event at 618-2 Remedial Action Site
    Steve McDuffie, RL Facility Rep
      * HONORABLE MENTION BEST PRESENTATION
  • Implementation of Criticality Safety Requirements
    Jerry Lipsky, YSO Facility Rep
  10:15 a.m. Break
  10:30 a.m. Criticality Safety Lessons Learned
Jerry McKamy
Criticality Safety Engineer, National Nuclear Security Administration

  11:15 a.m. Panel - Effective Oversight with Safety System Oversight Personnel and Facility Representatives
Moderator: John Evans
Mike Mikolanis, Director of Engineering Waste Division, Savannah River Operations Office; Al MacDougall, NNSA Service Center; Robert Gilbert, ORP SSO; Brian Harkins, ORP Facility Representative

  12:15 p.m. Lunch
  1:30 p.m. Breakout Session:
 
Track A - Facility Rep Workshop Presentations

Room: FLORENTINE EF
Track B - SSO Program Discussions

Room: SIENA
Leader: Walter Scott, ORP
1:30 p.m.

Facility Representatives Sharing of Good Practices and Lessons Learned (4)
  • Inadvertent Startup of Electric Centrifuge at the Weapon Evaluation Test Lab
    Joyce Arviso-Benally, SSO Facility Rep
  • Controlled Explosive Demolition of LANL Building
    Jeff Williams, LASO Facility Rep
    * HONORABLE MENTION BEST PRESENTATION
  • LANL Laser Accident
    Joanne Lorence, LASO Facility Rep
  • Lessons Learned from a High Explosives Experiment
    Jaime San Mateo, LSO Facility Rep
    * HONORABLE MENTION BEST PRESENTATION
2:45 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m.

Panel - Lessons Learned from Recent Type A Investigations
Ray Hardwick, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Facility Operations, Office of Environment, Safety and Health

Phil Giles, SR Senior Facility Rep

Rob Hastings, Director of Operations Oversight Division, RL
THEME: Sites Helping Each Other

Each site should come prepared to provide a brief and informal status of the implementation and execution of their SSO program, including qualification progress, lessons learned, successes, and problems. The workshop will then move into a roundtable discussion of a series of pertinent topics associated with the final phases of program implementation, including topics, such as:
  • Qualification Card development and scope
  • Qualification and Certification requirements and process
  • Integration with Facility Representatives and Authorization Basis Personnel
  • Initial Implementation Assessment Results and Lessons Learned
  • Final Implementation Assessment Plans and CRADs
  • OA/DNFSB/Internal audit results of SSO programs
  • Training courses being offered and under development
  • Safety System assessment results (interesting findings like the case studies presented during SSO training sessions)

Day 3: Thursday, May 19, 2005
  7:50 a.m. Introduction
John Evans
  8:00 a.m. Human Performance Improvement
Raymond Hardwick, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Facility Operations, Office of Environment, Safety and Health; Earl Carnes, Office of Regulatory Liaison, EH-21

(For supporting information, please call John Evans, 202-586-3685 or Earl Carnes, 301-903-5255)
  8:30 a.m. Break
  8:45 a.m. Facility Representatives Sharing of Good Practices and Lessons Learned (3)
  • Safety Leadership
    Brian Harkins, ORP Facility Rep
      * VOTED MOST OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION
  • Use of Operational Awareness Database
    Mat Irwin, RL Facility Rep
      * HONORABLE MENTION BEST PRESENTATION
  • Cleaning and Draining a Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool
    Robert Knighten,NE- ID Facility Rep
  10:00 a.m. Break
  10:15 a.m. Facility Representatives Sharing of Good Practices and Lessons Learned (4)
  • TRU Waste Drum Gas Generation
    Steve Goff, SR Facility Rep
  • Machine Guarding at BNL
    Jerald Bond, BHSO Facility Rep
  • Trenching Procedures at Oak Ridge
    Jorge Gonzalez, ORO Facility Rep
  • Pantex Authorization Basis Upgrade- Integrated Implementation Plan
    Carlos Alvarado, PXSO Facility Rep
  11:30 p.m. Pegasus Action Tracking System at YSO
Jeff Cravens, Lead Operations Engineer Y-12 Site Office
  12:00 p.m. Lunch
  1:30 p.m. Tour of Atomic Testing Museum
  4:00 p.m. Return to Hotel