Recent federal employee forms show 90% of workers at the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board have been vaccinated against coronavirus infection, a spokesperson for the board said this week.
All Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) personnel have submitted the recently-required forms to attest to their COVID-19 vaccination status, said Tara Tadlock, associate director for board operations said in an email reply to an inquiry from Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor.
In addition, the DNFSB will work to meet federal mandates, “including providing reasonable accommodations as required by law for unvaccinated employees,” Tadlock added. All members of the roughly 100-person board staff submitted their COVID-19 “attestation” forms as required, she added.
Most DNFSB office staff members have worked remotely since March 2020, after the pandemic started to spread throughout the United States. The majority of DNFSB headquarters staff continue to telework on a daily basis with the option to voluntarily come into the office, Tadlock said.
President Joe Biden last Thursday announced federal employees and contract workers will soon be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. While Biden issued an executive order the actual details on how the mandate will work is expected to be outlined in guidance from the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force later this month.
Late last month, before the presidential executive order, federal agencies started a vetting program to have employees attest or verify that they are inoculated against COVID-19. Any who refused to answer were also counted as unvaccinated.
