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Health, Safety, Security and Environment

We are committed to achieving and maintaining excellence in nuclear safety, radiological protection, industrial health and safety, security and environmental protection at our sites through a process of continuous improvement.

We believe that good health, safety, security and environmental protection - and especially the health, safety and security of everyone who works for us are not only paramount but fundamental to the success of the NDA.

Key Issues Our Approach
Responsibilities How to deliver our duties in relation to safety, security and environmental protection We take seriously our safety, health, security and environmental responsibilities and have developed a Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) Policy that sets out our goals and expectations and which applies to all organisations that carry out work on our behalf.
Expectations What we require of our contractors in order to deliver our mission safely, securely and with due regard for the environment. We expect all our contractors to comply with our HSSE Policy. We expect all our contractors to have an HSSE culture that recognises that no activity is so important that it cannot be done safely, securely and with due regard to the protection of the environment.
Hazard Reduction 85% of the radioactive waste stored on our sites is an untreated form and is potentially mobile. Our main safety focus is aimed at reducing the hazard posed by the untreated radioactive wastes by ensuring their safe retrieval and immobilisation into a passively safe form for long-term storage or disposal. We intend to make our sites safer for this and for future generations.
Contractor Performance How best to ensure our principal contractors deliver the NDA' s programme safely, securely, and in ways that protect the environment. We will agree a set of metrics that measure performance effectively in the areas of nuclear safety, industrial health and safety, security and environmental protection with our contractors. The performance of our contractors will be monitored by an independent oversight and assurance team that reports directly to our Nuclear Safety, Security and Environment Director.
Interactions with Regulators How best to work in partnership with the regulators to deliver our programme. We will work in partnership with the regulators to achieve our common goal: - no accidents; - no harm to people; and - no damage to the environment. We have establised Memoranda of Understanding with HSE, EA, SEPA and OCNS to define our approach to partnership working. We have organised a National NDA, Industry and Regulators Forum (NNIRF) to facilitate strategic and policy development to ensure the effective coordination of our activities. We are developing contractor and site-based "triangular" arrangements to facilitate our discussions on HSSE performance with the regulators and our contractors.