Chapter 17 Management, Organization, and Institutional Safety Provisions

DOE-STD -3009-94

Chapter 17

Management, Organization, and Institutional Safety

Provisions

P U R P O S E . The purpose of this DSA chapter is to provide information that will satisfy

the requirements of 10 CFR 830 to define the management, orga nization and institutional

safety provision necessary to ensure safe operation of the facility.

This chapter presents information on management, technical, and other organizations that

support safe operation. This chapter also enumerates the requirements used to develop the

safety management programs, includes descriptions of the responsibilities of and

relationships between the non-operating organizations having a safety function and their

interfaces with the line operating organization, and presents sufficient information on the

safety management policies and programs to demonstrate that the facility operations are

embedded in a safety conscious environment. Expected products of this chapter, as

applicable based on the graded approach, include:

Description of the overall structure of the organizations and personnel with

responsibilities for facility safety and interfaces between those organizations.

Description of the programs that promote safety consciousness and morale

including safety culture, performa nce assessment, configuration and document

control, occurrence reporting, and staffing and qualification.

Existing supporting documentation is to be referenced. Include brief abstracts of

referenced documentation with enough of the salient facts to provid e an understanding of

the referenced documentation and its relation to this chapter.

A P P L I C A T I O N O F T H E G R A D E D A P P R O A C H . The level of detail

required by this chapter is dependent upon magnitude of hazard and overall facility

complexity. Discussions can be brief and are limited to summaries of the major features of

the programmatic commitment to the safety basis.

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