Safety Is Our #1 Priority
What does safety mean to the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility?
The health and safety of our employees, contractors and the general public is paramount. Our primary goal is that no harm should result from our activities. In this regard, we hope to maintain the respect and trust of our employees, the public and our stakeholders. Working toward this, we strive to:
- Eliminate injuries at work
- Prevent incidents but maintain effective emergency arrangements
- Achieve and sustain an excellent safety culture
- Learn the lessons from events, implement corrective actions and seek out and use good practices wherever we may find them
- Ensure that our activities, products and services are in compliance with applicable legislation and meet the requirements of good practice and applicable stands of EH&S performance
Safety is one of our foundational values at Westinghouse – along with quality, integrity and trust. Together, these four are core to who we are and how we operate. They are essential in everything that we do.
Regulation
Westinghouse works with national and local regulatory bodies to ensure we are compliant with all federal and state safety laws.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
At a national level, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), is the primary federal agency that has oversight for the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility. The NRC ensures that users of radioactive materials keep radiation exposures within the agency's specified dose limits and as low as reasonably achievable.
NRC’s information on the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility can be found here.
Westinghouse’s filed documents with the NRC can be searched in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System, better known as ADAMS. Click here to search.
The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SC-DES)
At the state level, Westinghouse works with the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SC-DES), which is tasked with promoting and protecting the health of the public and the environment in South Carolina. Westinghouse most often interfaces with SC-DES’s Environmental Affairs division, which issues and enforces environmental permits.
Learn more about Westinghouse’s interaction with SC-DES, along with all related consent agreements, on the SC-DES website here.
