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DOE Idaho Operations Office wins Safety & Health Outreach Award from
Voluntary Protection Program Participants’ Association, Inc.
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DOE-Idaho's Quality & Safety Division Industrial Safety Team Lead Carol Henning shows the safety outreach award that the department's Idaho office and two of its contractors won this year.
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Region X (Pacific Northwest) of the Voluntary Protection Program Participants
Association, Inc. has given the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations
Office its 2009 Safety & Health Outreach Award for volunteering with DOE
contractors to teach safety to hundreds of Eastern Idaho school children.
“The Voluntary Protection Program teaches that safety is important in every
aspect of life,” said Carol Henning, Quality & Safety Division Industrial Safety
Team Lead with the DOE’s Idaho Operations Office. “That’s why we like to get out
into the community to talk about and demonstrate safety.”
Between June 1, 2008 and April 30, 2009, more than 20 volunteers from DOE’s
Idaho office, its Idaho National Laboratory and its Idaho Cleanup Project
visited Bingham County elementary schools. They taught pet, bicycle, pedestrian,
tool, fire, farm and outdoor safety, and proper use of personal protective
equipment.
The volunteers also staffed booths and taught these safety topics during the
Idaho National Laboratory’s annual Science & Engineering Expo at the Museum of
Idaho in downtown Idaho Falls.
Plans are to continue with safety outreach to the community. Within the next
few months, the contractors’ VPP program offices and employee safety teams will
meet and select target audiences and safety outreach activities for 2010.
Editorial Date July 27, 2009
By Timothy B Jackson
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