Coordination with Planning and Design Staff.

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time. The first complete evaluation of each operation is usually considered its "baseline" and is

used for comparison with the results of future evaluations and exposure monitoring. The

comprehensive survey ensures that all areas and operations are evaluated by an industrial

hygienist and those evaluations are documented and accessible for future use by cognizant line

management and worker health and safety professionals. Baselines must be updated

periodically with the frequency of updates being determined by risk and variability of

operations.

To promote the integration of worker protection efforts, the following groups or information

resources should be consulted/utilized when planning industrial hygiene evaluations and/or

considering exposure controls:

Other worker protection staff (e.g., industrial safety professionals, health

physicists)

Occupation medical staff

Environmental protection staff

Line management

Workers and worker representatives

Existing chemical and hazard inventories

Applicable written worker protection programs such as, respiratory, hazard

communication, ergonomics, lead, beryllium, confined space, and hearing

conservation

Injury and illness logs/databases and trending tools like the Computerized

Accident/Incident Reporting System (CAIRS) and Occurrence Reporting Binned

Information Trending Tool (ORBITT)/ Occurrence Reporting and Processing

System (ORPS).

(See also DOE G 440.1-1, Section 4.3.2; DOE G 440.1-2, Sections 4.3 and 4.8.1; DOE G

440.1-3, Section 4.3; DOE G 4401.4, Sections 4.2 and 4.3.3.2; and DOE G 440.1-7, Sections

IV.1, IV.2, and IV.3.)

5.2

Coordination with Planning and Design Staff.

DOE and contractor line management are required to coordinate planning and design activities

with industrial hygiene personnel to anticipate and control health hazards that proposed

facilities and/or operations would introduce. [Reference DOE O 440.1A, paragraph 4.j (1);

Attachment 1, paragraph 5.b; and Attachment 2, paragraphs 10.a and 18.b.]

5.2.1 Conceptual Design Phase.

Review at the conceptual design phase, the earliest phase of the project, is critical. This

is the phase when line management will most benefit from industrial hygiene input and

when the role of the industrial hygienist in the process is most easily established.

Specific design questions to be answered include:

To what extent can a system be designed to require minimum maintenance in order

to minimize exposures to maintenance personnel?

To what extent can the process be conducted in a closed system in order to

minimize exposures to workers and others in the vicinity?