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Local charities benefit from safety achievement
Charities in West Cumbria are in the money thanks to the impressive safety performance of workers at the world’s first civil nuclear power plant, Calder Hall.
The Calder Hall reactors may have ceased operation in 2003 but there’s still an important programme of work being carried out to defuel and decommission the historic facility.
And the Sellafield Ltd team responsible recently clocked up seven years, that’s 1.3 million man hours of safe working without a Lost Time Accident.
To mark the occasion, Sellafield Ltd’s owner, Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) donated cheques of £1,000 each to two charities of the workforce’s choice.
The lucky recipients were the Henderson Suite of the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven and the Danica Maxwell Dream Fund.
The Dream Fund was set up in memory of 15-year-old Egremont schoolgirl Danica Maxwell, who died in December 2010 after a long illness.
Presenting the cheques was Kliss McNeel, NMP Executive Director Sellafield Ltd, Environment, Health, Safety and Quality, said: “You shut a plant down, carried out one of the largest asbestos removel projects in Europe, worked on one of the site's biggest demolition projects in getting the cooling towers down and you're now into fuel removal.
"You don’t get this kind of safety performance without having a great team so I just wanted to come over and say thanks.”
Martin Brownridge, head of programme delivery at Calder Hall, said at the cheques handover: “This is a significant achievement and everyone at Calder Hall has earned this recognition so I also want to say a big thank you to one and all.
