MECHANISMS TO STRENGTHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S HUMAN RELIABILITY PROGRAM BY ADOPTING A CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (CAP)

摘要

The Department of Energy’s Human Reliability Program (HRP) is a robust safety and securityprogram designed to mitigate issues with the access/handing of Category 1 Special NuclearMaterial and mitigating the insider threat. Various components of HRP, as defined by 10 CFR712, are used to evaluate a person’s physical and mental stability to carry out his/her dutieswithout jeopardizing safety and security within a high consequence environment. Studies haveshown, after a discovery of an insider, that detailed assessments of aberrant behavior can bederived. Often, assessments conducted by federal agencies are retrospective; occurring after thecrime has been committed. These extensive character profiles of an individual could, if availableearlier, provide indicators of abnormal behavior and possibly mitigate the threat. Currentprograms like HRP and safety programs encourage continuous employee assessments.Observable individual behaviors occur continuously, thus a program could be established to flagsubtle behaviors in the workforce from subordinates, peers, and supervision. A mechanism suchas a CAP is proposed to collect the data and provide a means to assess the information as aproactive means to detect the insider threat.