Documentation Classification Thresholds

DOE-EM-STD-5502-94

Preliminary Health and Safety Plans) for new facilities. Figure 1, the "EM Hazard Baseline

Documentation Process" flowchart illustrates the general decision logic used to match the

types of EM facilities and the required documentation. Figure 2, the "Hazard Baseline

Documentation Groupings", indicates the four groupings of EM facilities for which specific

hazard baseline documents need to be developed. There is a hierarchy formed from the

four groupings of facilities from the most to the least stringent based on the requirements of

the hazards and risks. The hierarchy is nuclear, non-nuclear, radiological, and other

industrial facilities.

Hazards identification is a dynamic process. New hazards may be introduced as a

facility is used, as processes change, or as a project progresses causing a

reassessment of the facility's grouping and revision of the facility's safety and health

documents. Where hazards are removed or inventories are reduced by cleanup and/or

decontamination and decommissioning activities, the hazard categorization or facility

classification may be changed (e.g. nuclear facilities may become radiological, non-

nuclear, or other industrial facilities). The documentation needed and/or approval levels

for hazard baseline documents may be adjusted accordingly. For example, cleanup or

decontamination of a category 2 nuclear facility could lead to a reduction in hazard

grouping to a radiological or industrial facility.

4.2

Documentation Classification Thresholds

There are three primary regulatory thresholds or levels used for determining the

appropriate EM hazard baseline documentation:

(1) Hazard category 3 per DOE 5480.23, Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, and

DOE-STD-1027-92, Hazard Categorization and Accident Analysis Techniques for

Compliance with DOE Order 5480.23, Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports;

(2) 29 CFR 1910.119, Process Safety Management (PSM); and

(3) 40 CFR 302, Designation, Reportable Quantities, and Notification.