June 2015

Follow-up Assessment of Safety Culture at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) independent Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) conducted this follow-up assessment of nuclear safety culture at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) project.  The primary objective of the assessment was to provide information on the status of the safety culture at WTP and determine the progress in improvement since the previous EA assessment in 2014.  Assessment activities occurred during December 2014 to February 2015, with the primary onsite data collection effort from January 26 to February 5, 2015.  This is the third assessment of the WTP safety culture; the first was conducted in 2011.