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Hanford Site Safety Standards

Site-Wide Safety Standards

The DOE Worker Safety and Health Rule (10 CFR 851.11) addresses the need for a contractor on multi-contractor DOE sites to coordinate with other contractors to ensure there are clear roles, responsibilities and procedures to ensure the safety and health of workers in the workplace.

The Hanford Site-wide Safety Standards goal is to have common safety and health programs and processes for worker safety where there are similar hazards, requirements and worker expectations.  Since Hanford Site workers may perform work in the facilities controlled by other site contactors, safety can be improved by having uniform safety processes.  The desired outcome of the Site-wide Safety Standards function is to establish a set of common programs, processes and standardized training that provide a consistent approach for workers to perform work safely on the Hanford Site.