4/22/09

DOE's Final HSS Report Transmitted to Lab for Corrective Action

DOE has submitted the final report on its independent oversight inspection of the Lab's environment, safety and health programs. The DOE team praised the Lab for "proactively working to improve safety management," for "effective oversight of construction activities," and for its "integrated system of hazard analysis and control for outside users at the ALS." The report also listed 10 major areas of improvement for the Lab to address. Lab Management is in the process of reviewing the findings of the report, and is developing a proposed corrective action plan which will be sent to all stakeholders for review before being submitted to DOE by the June 16 deadline. For the full DOE report, go here. Go here for the transmittal letter and here for the validation appendices.