Department of Energy (DOE) sites have demonstrated effective security performance overall in fiscal 2015 but should improve emergency management systems, contractor oversight, corrective action management, and other issues, according to the DOE Office of Enterprise Assessments’ (EA) fiscal 2015 Independent Oversight Activities Overview report to Congress released last Friday. In the last fiscal year, EA completed 15 safeguards and security assessments at 10 DOE sites, 10 information security assessments at 12 sites, and 26 cybersecurity assessments at 22 sites. It also completed 36 nuclear safety assessments at 15 sites, six worker safety and health assessments at three sites, and nine emergency management assessments at eight sites.
Of the 102 reports EA produced in fiscal 2015 on safety and security at 28 DOE sites, it “did not identify any immediate or major risks that warranted shutdown of operations,” the report said. However, it recommended DOE make improvements on “continued senior level management attention to safety and security performance; line management attention to contractor oversight; emphasis on corrective action management; compliance with safety and security requirements; improving emergency management systems; and enhancements to cyber security and insider threat programs.”
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