Washington — By steadily growing investigative workers and restructuring duties, the Chemical Safety Board is “getting close to at least hitting on all cylinders,” Chair Steve Owens mentioned throughout a July 25 public assembly.

In December, the company cleared a long-standing backlog of investigations and incident studies. Removing the backlog, Owens mentioned, has allowed for manufacturing of a stream of movies providing security recommendations and classes discovered from company investigations.

“It used to be that our video team would wait for an investigation report to be completed so that they could do their work and get out our videos,” he added. “But in this case, we’ve gotten so many of them done that they’re kind of scurrying to keep on top of the number of reports that we’ve issued and get those videos out in a timely fashion. So, they’re doing a great job, as well.”

Two seats stay open on CSB’s five-member board. Owens didn’t focus on doable additions to the board in the course of the name.

“With our current capabilities and staffing levels, we’re now able to produce reports as well as continue to deploy teams of investigators to a range of incidents,” CSB member Sylvia Johnson mentioned.

Each company closing report on investigations consists of security recommendations. Chuck Barbee, director of recommendations at CSB, mentioned the board lately reached 1,000 recommendations because the board’s inception in January 1998, a feat he referred to as a “major milestone.”