International Conference on Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources: Accomplishments and Future Endeavours (CN-295)

Tips and Tools for Developing a Sustainability Culture for Radioactive Source Security

22 Jun 2022, 16:00

30m

M 01( first floor M Building) (IAEA Headquarters)

Poster 12. Sustainability and effectiveness of safety and security systems and measures, including emerging technologies Poster Session 2

Speakers

Mark Ekman (Sandia National Laboratories) Mark Ekman (SNL)

Description

Security system sustainability is a constant challenge requiring continuous direct technical, administrative, and maintenance actions. To foster sustainability over generations of staffing changes and various stages of the business/facility evolution, it is important to consider the indirect actions that are required to support and maintain system sustainability. This paper will overview the Office of Radiological Security’s experience-based lessons learned regarding useful indirect actions that have proven successful including maintaining staff attitude towards security, ensuring staff development and knowledge transfer, and updating documentation as tangential aspects change, management from a system lifecycle perspective, and user experience.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525