[en] The Fusion Technology Task Force (TFFT) has a wide-ranging series of programmes in the areas of waste management and safety, tritium recovery, tritium analysis and accounting, and testing components under development for ITER at JET. Examples have been presented here in the fields of waste management and safety. In waste management, the largest effort is currently on water de-tritiation, which is considered to be the most urgent and important topic affecting JET operations, and plant design is also required for ITER. It is also the most technically challenging of the waste detritiation issues. A complete design for a water de-tritiation plant for JET (a prototype for ITER), including optimised and tested catalysts, is expected within the next 2 years. TFFT safety programmes support the on-going work on safety in preparation for ITER, including tritium spreading and dust inhalation effects for worse-case accident scenarios. Effort is also going into documenting the operational experience of the JET machine with respect to reliability of mechanical components within the tritium boundary and radiation exposure, and inferring what lessons should be learnt for ITER