Underscoring a strong, worker-driven safety culture, UCOR’s Y-12 Deactivation and Demolition (D&D) team has worked over one year (more than 500,000 hours) without a Total Recordable Case (TRC) or a reported Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) incident.
To better understand this accomplishment, a TRC is the total number of recordable work-related injuries or illnesses. A DART is a subset of the TRC rate and is the total number of work-related injuries or illnesses that resulted in days away from work, days of restricted work activity or job transfer, or both. DOE has TRC goal of 1.1 and DART goal of 0.6.
While accomplishing this major safety milestone, the Y-12 D&D team simultaneously has hit many milestones at Y-12 this year, which required significant amounts of hazardous work at Beta-1, Alpha-2, and Alpha-4. Despite the hazards, the Y-12 team continues to deliver mission-critical goals while maintaining safety as a top priority.
Y-12’s D&D crews implement safety from top to bottom. Foremen ensure crews have the tools and resources needed to perform work compliantly. Industrial Hygiene, Industrial Safety, Radiological Protection, and Work Control personnel develop protocols for crews’ work scopes. General foremen, superintendents/area superintendents, and project managers collaborate to supervise crews and provide required resources to get the work done. The result of this team effort is safe, effective, high-risk work performed at Y-12 daily.
Y-12 hit this safety milestone in late September, and as of November, crews continue performing high risk work without a TRC or DART case. So far this year, Y-12 D&D efforts are focused on continuing Alpha-2 demo, Beta-1 CLSM placement, infrastructure installation at Beta-4, and sanitizing Alpha-4.
Congratulations to the Y-12 D&D team for your mission-critical work and continuously upholding UCOR’s safety culture.
