Introduction to Pantex High Reliability Operations: A Practical Approach to Avoid the System Accident

摘要

In 2007 about 39 B&W Pantex senior-level managers began a journey to learn about High Reliability Organizations (HROs) and to understand how a more rigorous process to conduct Causal Factors Analysis (CFA) investigations on events could provide insight into Pantex in becoming an HRO. This journey consisted of nine seminars using a variety of textbooks. The format for the seminars, although very informative, was not formally structured nor optimized for Pantex. Since that time, Greg Meyer, the B&W Pantex Plant Manager has requested that a Pantexspecific approach be developed to make the material easier to understand and more applicable to Pantex operations. The program is being introduced to new hires and to a broader management audience in early FY 2009.