April 9, 2008

Al Boerner, Mike Buckley Receive Team Sitewide Safety Stewardship Award

NSLS employees Al Boerner and Mike Buckley received a team 2007 Sitewide Safety Stewardship (S3) Award on March 27 for their efforts to ensure that Laboratory suppliers follow proper Integrated Safety Management (ISM) practices. Started in 2006, the S3 program recognizes outstanding awareness and implementation of health and safety improvements and corrective actions. Boerner and Buckley were among five winners and four runners-up to receive the honor.

Pictured at the Sitewide Safety Stewardship Awards presentation are: (front, from left) Mike Buckley, Paul Sparrow, Al Boerner, John Gottlieb, Justin Wojciechowski, Richard Ferrieri, Robert Metz; (back, from left) Robert Petricek, John Berry, Jeff Swenson, John Selva, Richard Allingham, Carol Ogeka, Patty Bender, and Ed Lessard.

Boerner, an NSLS project engineer, and Buckley, the NSLS quality assurance manager, were the main drivers behind a major improvement to ISM flow down to suppliers using the web requisition process. The project helped assure that the work performed by contractors coming to the Laboratory is managed through Brookhaven’s work planning and controls requirements. Before this improvement, the Lab had no formal mechanism to capture contractor jobs in the work planning system. This project also included clarification as to when a formal Health and Safety Plan is required from the supplier/contractor.

“Their insightful use of the system allowed for a comprehensive mechanism for capturing contractor work on site and assuring that risks are evaluated and controlled,” said NSLS Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality Manager Andrew Ackerman.

The project was a major input to the Lab’s ISM/Safety Improvement Plan, Ackerman said. Many services are purchased through the web requisition system and this change helps guarantee that work planning is incorporated when needed. System users are led through a set of questions designed to screen for planning requirements and work control personnel are identified and notified at requisition. That helps assure that work planning is effective and that suppliers and contractors who work on site are prepared to meet BNL requirements when they arrive, Ackerman said.

Other BNL employees honored include: Rich Ferrieri (Medical); John Gottlieb (Plant Engineering); Justin Wojciechowski (Safety & Health Services); and runners-up, Rich Allingham (Staff Services), John Berry (Plant Engineering), Robert Metz (Environmental Services), and Paul Sparrow (Collider-Accelerator).

ARTICLE BY: Kendra Snyder