May 7, 2007—A case study describing how the Washington Group International incorporated its design for safety process into the construction of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility in eastern Idaho was recently published on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Web site.
The study, “Washington Group International Designs and Builds a Mixed-Waste Treatment Facility,” was developed through the OSHA and Washington Group International Alliance, which was signed in 2002 and renewed in 2003 and 2006.
Washington Group President and CEO Stephen Hanks said that integrating safety into all phases of a project is the moral obligation of every Washington Group employee. “Management and all employees should approach every project with the expectation of a perfect safety record.”
Washington Group operated under a $300 million contract from British Nuclear Fuels, Limited, to engineer, procure, and construct a nuclear-waste treatment facility—the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility—to process nearly 65,000 cubic meters of nuclear waste stored at the Energy Department’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
For more information on the case study, visit OSHA’s Web page.
