Under this contract WESKEM manages all radioactive, RCRA hazardous, TSCA, industrial chemicals and newly generated wastes at three operating sites in Oak Ridge, including ETTP, Y-12, and ORNL. WESKEM is responsible for all aspects of the waste management conduct of operations including characterization, packaging, storage, processing, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste. Since early FY 2000, WESKEM has shipped over 30 million kilograms of waste off-site in over 300 truck shipments and 50 rail shipments from the three Oak Ridge sites. These shipments have gone to eight commercial and government waste treatment and disposal facilities throughout the country.

WESKEM developed and implemented the waste management procedures for all three Oak Ridge sites, developed and manages the waste tracking database system, developed and implemented the Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) program as it applies to waste management and is co-permittee for 19 waste management TSD facilities containing over 27,000 waste packages at the Oak Ridge sites.

Since assuming the waste management operations in Oak Ridge, WESKEM has accumulated 1,467,605 labor hours while achieving the following successful safety statistics: RII = 1.6, LWC-R = 0.5, and LWC-A = 0.8. In 2003, WESKEM achieved a RII rate of 1.02 which ranked best for all subcontractors at five Bechtel Jacobs Company (BJC) sites. During the period June of 2001 through August 2002, WESKEM worked 427,237 labor hours without a recordable accident or injury. This is directly attributable to applying ISMS processes all aspects of work planning and implementation. WESKEM played a major role in the BJC ISMS Program recertification in 2003.

WESKEM's environmental program has been cited by Tennessee regulators as a model program. WESKEM was instrumental in recent improvements in the nuclear criticality safety program working in concert with BJC. WESKEM provides all training for employees and subcontractors who prepare, package, and transport radiological and hazardous waste for offsite transportation and disposal under the DOE Oak Ridge Operations EM Program. WESKEM also provides training in a wide array of other disciplines.