Safety Management Program Characteristics

DOE-STD-1104-96

The bases for deriving safety limits, limiting control settings, limiting

conditions for operation, surveillance requirements, and administrative

controls are provided as appropriate.

The process for maintaining the TSRs current at all times and for

controlling their use is defined.

2.5

Safety Management Program Characteristics

Safety management program characteristics is the last of the DSA approval bases and

encompasses the elements of institutional programs and facility management that are

necessary to ensure safe operations based on assumptions made in the hazard and

accident analyses. While these elements must be addressed in the DSA, generic

descript ions of these institutional programs should not be duplicated in the DSA if they

can be referenced in Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) documents or site-

wide manuals. These institutional programs include (where applicable) quality

assurance, procedures, maintenance, personnel training, conduct of operations,

emergency preparedness, fire protection, waste management, radiation protection, and

criticality safety. Identification of safety management program characteristics is a product

of hazard an d accident analyses, designation of safety SSCs, and derivation of TSRs.

Determining the adequacy of safety management program characteristics generally

entails being able to conclude that the DSA contains sufficient documentation and basis

to arrive at the following conclusions:

The major programs needed to provide programmatic safety

management are identified.

Basic provisions of identified programs are noted, and references to

facility or site program documentation are provided.

The acceptance of saf ety management program characteristics does not constitute

acceptance of the adequacy of program compliance with DOE directives. That can only

be accomplished by detailed compliance review of each of the programs, which is

beyond the scope of a DSA.

2.6

Conditions of Approval

Conditions of approval should be used to document any changes, conditions, or hazard

controls directed by DOE. Purely editorial issues (e.g., punctuation, misspelling) that do

not change the meaning or technical content of the statement should not be handled

through conditions of approval. Conditions of approval should not be used to approve

DSAs with fundamental flaws . Large numbers of conditions of approval for a single DSA

may indicate that the DSA is fundamentally flawed and shoul d prompt a review of which

issues should be corrected prior to approval of the DSA. DOE should not approve

conditions of approval for extended periods of time. A defined closure date or milestone

should be identified in the condition of approval. If a condition is intended to be applied

for an extended period of time the DSA should reflect that condition as part of the

analysis. Conditions of approval may identify compensatory measures that are required

for temporary periods until the conditions of appr oval are closed.

The following criteria constitute a basis for rejection of the DSA and should not be

addressed through conditions of approval.