June 08 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine

Goal: Make safety and security integral to every activity we do

Safety Web page tells your story

Like many Laboratory employees, Laura Wolfsberg juggles family and work while striving to meet deadlines and uphold myriad responsibilities. Employees can catch a glimpse of Wolfsberg's day and how safety plays a vital role in everything she does on the Laboratory's new Safety Web page at http://int.lanl.gov/worker_safety/ (internal only).

Laura Wolfsberg of the Chemistry Division starts the day by taking care of her family, making sure Sammy and Leah are buckled safely into their seats. Wolfsberg is featured in the Laboratory's new Safety Web page. Photo by Richard Robinson

Employees can reach the new interactive page from the Laboratory's internal home page. One of its features invites employees to share their own stories, concerns, and ideas.

"The goal of this interactive and media-rich page is to focus safety communications, messages, and tools to those affected most—employees," according to Howard Nekimken, Institutional Worker Safety and Security Team (WSST) chair. The WSST hopes to use it to communicate the team's focus areas and accomplishments.

This page also provides a toolkit for managers to help in communicating the importance and relevance of safety in everything we do. Among the page's features are interviews with employees and managers depicting their involvement in making safety improvements, home safety tips, and a warehouse of metrics and archives available for use as "safety minutes."

With a clear focus on Laboratory employees taking care of one another, the new Safety Web page stresses the importance of our continued awareness and involvement.

As for Wolfsberg's busy day, it ends with her shown cuddling her two children and reading a book. This image resonates with Alex Romero, Institutional WSST member representing the Director's Office and the Contractor Assurance Office. "It brings safety to a personal level," he said.

—Mig Owens