Exceptions to the Acceptance Process

DOE-STD-1167-2003

The DOE Operations/Field Office should convey final acceptance or rejection of

the supplied-air suit configuration to the contractor in writing within 60 days of

receipt of the STF report. If final acceptance or rejection of the STF conclusions

and recommendations are not received within sixty (60) days of receipt of the

STF report, the Site supplied-air suit manager may elect to use the supplied-air

suit, as proposed, pending final disposition of the STF report by the DOE

Operations/Field Office.

6.0

Exceptions to the Acceptance Process

6.1

Exceptions to the acceptance process such as those listed below may be granted

based on the review and approval of the cognizant Operations/Field Office.

6.2

A DOE or DOE contractor does not need to test and evaluate their supplied-air suit

configuration, using all of the below tests, if for a given test the certified results of

independent testing (using the European standards, etc.) meet the acceptance criteria

for the ERAP for that test (see Appendix C)

6.3

A DOE or DOE contractor does not need to obtain acceptance of their supplied-air

suit configuration and program, using the below procedures, if:

The supplied-air suit and associated supplied-air suit program had been approved

per the Acceptance Testing Procedures for Air-Line Supplied-Air Suits (LA-

10156-MS) prior to the issuance of this technical standard, and no modifications

that degrade the level of protection have been made to the supplied-air suit

configuration.

The supplied-air suit configuration at one DOE site is identical to an accepted

configuration used at another DOE site and the DOE Operations/Field Office

accepts the revised supplied-air suit program from its own site.

7.0

Quality Assurance

7.1

Site Self-assessment

A site using supplied-air suits should conduct a self-evaluation of their supplied-air suit

program along with their respirator program, preferably every year (or as recommended by

the ANSI Z88.2 standard). Such self-assessment reports should be made available during

any independent assessment.

7.2

Independent Assessment

An on-site evaluation of supplied-air suit program implementation should be repeated every

4 years by an individual independent of the respirator program. Additional assessors may be

used, if the contractor deems it necessary. This evaluation should cover at least the elements

specified in Appendix B. This evaluation may be part of the Site evaluation performed in the

Departmental Integrated Safety Management System reviews. The independent assessor