Definitions - s1032cn10009

DOE-STD-1032-92

DEFINITIONS

Facility

Any equipment, structure, system, process, or activity that

fulfills a specific purpose.

Root Cause

The cause that, if corrected, would prevent recurrence of

this and similar occurrences.

Operations Supervisor

The individual having authority and responsibility for

operational control of a facility, process, experiment, or

other project.

Safety Analysis

A documented process which provides systematic

identification of hazards within a given DOE operation (or

for a given job in the case of job safety analysis); describes

and analyzes the adequacy of measures taken to eliminate,

control, or mitigate identified hazards; and analyzes and

evaluates potential accidents and their associated risks.

Safety Analysis Report

A report which documents the adequacy of the safety

analysis for a facility to ensure that the facility can be

constructed, operated, maintained, shutdown, and

decommissioned safely and in compliance with applicable

laws and regulations.

Technical Safety

Those requirements that define the conditions, safe

Requirements

boundaries, and the management or administrative

controls necessary to ensure the safe operation of a

nuclear facility and to reduce the potential risk to the

public and facility workers from uncontrolled releases of

radioactive materials or from radiation exposure due to

inadvertent criticality. Technical Safety Requirements

consist of safety limits, operating limits, surveillance

requirements, administrative controls, use and application

of instructions, and the basis thereof.

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