The National Nuclear Security Administration’s National Security Campus in Kansas City, Mo., is marking 2016 as its “best year ever” in safety performance.
The NNSA site that produces non-nuclear components used in nuclear weapons said in an emailed statement that despite a 20 percent increase in new employees throughout the year, safety incidents fell by 56 percent. Roughly 3,200 employees currently work at the site.
Site spokeswoman Shaunda Parks said the National Security Campus in 2016 reported four Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) incidents – two “slip, trip and falls” in a hallway, one minor allergic reaction, and an automobile accident during business travel.
This ranks the site’s safety record among the 95th percentile of similar organizations nationwide, by OSHA standards, the statement said. Other similar organizations under OSHA are those involved with electronic assembly and circuit board manufacturing; according to Parks, “our results are lower than organizations in those categories.”
