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Safety

At Dounreay, we have high standards of health and safety. Our aim is to decommission the site safely and with no harm to people or the environment.

Our aims

• we will have high personal safety standards and expect the same of everyone else;
• we will accept that we are personally responsible for our own and others’ safety;
• we will eliminate unsafe working practices.

Our methods

We ensure that our staff and contractors are properly trained to work safely and meet all legal and regulatory requirements. Consistent procedures, clear lines of responsibility and communication of best practice are central to our approach.

Health and safety is embedded in our management system, which is accredited to ISO 9001. Dounreay was the first nuclear site to be awarded the new British Standard BS18001, which emphasises wider cultural issues of safety management, such as leadership and worker participation.

Experience worldwide is that companies with behavioural-based safety programmes in place are among the best performers in terms of both safety performance and productivity. All workers on site undergo behavioural safety training which challenges unsafe behaviour and promotes safe practices. A set of standards and expectations entitled “Safer by the Dozen” clearly defines the key “Do’s” and “Don’ts”. Annual health and safety awards recognise best practice in the workforce.

We measure the success of our safety management by consistently low levels of safety events, employee accidents and radiation doses. Our target is “zero accidents”.

 

Industrial safety performance

The NDA has introduced common reporting metrics for industrial safety using the OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) system of TRIR (Total Recordable Injury Rate) and DACR (Days Away Case Rate), and publishes a monthly “league table” based on the TRIR performance of all of its sites. As our customer takes safety performance so seriously, this has led to an improvement in industrial safety performance across all of the NDA sites, including Dounreay. At the start of 2006/07, Dounreay was close to the bottom of this table, but due to our steady improvement, we had reached the middle of the table by the end of 2007.

Radiological protection

Dismantling contaminated plant and containment systems requires good standards of radiological protection to be maintained. Radiological Protection Advisors and Radiological Protection Supervisors are embedded into all of the major decommissioning projects teams and are intimately involved in the planning of work to ensure that dose rates to workers are kept as low as possible.