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DOE-HDBK-1163-2003
1.0
INTRODUCTION
During Fiscal Year 2001, the joint DOE/EFCOG Chemical Safety Topical Committee (CSTC)
formed a team consisting of representatives from several sites and DOE headquarters to evaluate
possible methods for integrating hazard analysis activities with potential overlap such as
radiological, chemical, emergency preparedness, environmental and others. The CSTC Team
identified and reviewed hazard analysis requirements and issues, collected numerous sources of
good practices information and evaluated possible methods for integrating hazard analysis
activities.
This Handbook captures many of the CSTC Hazard Analysis Team's insights based on
interactions with industry and DOE field personnel. Specifically, the Handbook provides an
overview of current DOE directives and federal regulations, highlights opportunities for
integrating hazard analysis activities, and provides approaches that can improve effectiveness of
hazard analysis while improving cost performance. This Handbook does not introduce any new
or additional requirements.
The concepts presented in this Handbook are supportive of an integrated safety management
system (ISM) as addressed in DOE G 450.4-1B, Integrated Safety Management System Guide,
and can be applied to nuclear or hazardous non-nuclear facilities that are either operating,
shutdown, or actively conducting facility disposition activities. The underlying premise is that
hazard analysis is applied to all levels of work activities and includes an evaluation of potential
impacts to workers, the public and the environment.
Table 1 provides a convenient reference for locating selected topics contained within this
Handbook.
2.0
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS HANDBOOK
This Handbook is intended to provide DOE and contractor safety personnel with a resource to
support the planning, technical review, or conduct of hazard analysis activities. Clarifications of
requirements and discussions of best practices can be used to help improve cost effectiveness,
clarify organizational roles and responsibilities, and provide a basis for enhancing the technical
quality of hazard analysis activities.
The term "hazard" as used in this Handbook is intended to mean a source of danger with the
potential to cause illness, injury, or death to a person or damage to a facility or to the environment
(without regard to the likelihood or credibility of accident scenarios or consequence mitigation).
Hazards may involve radioactive or chemically hazardous materials, energy sources, or other
potentially adverse conditions found in the workplace.
This Handbook can be applied to a broad set of activities conducted at DOE facilities, including
nuclear or non-nuclear related processing, waste management, and laboratory and
decommissioning operations. It is not intended to apply to DOE facilities engaged in developing,
manufacturing, handling, storing, transporting, processing, or testing of explosives, pyrotechnics
and propellants, or assemblies containing these materials. These activities represent a small
sector of DOE's current missions and facilities, and are specifically covered by DOE M 440.1-1,
DOE Explosives Safety Manual.
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