Introduction - sdmp-00330004

DOE-HDBK-XXXX-2005

06/30/2005

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Purpose

To serve as a reference for Department of Energy (DOE) environment, health and safety

(ES&H) terms and their definitions. . This Glossary should be used as a reference for

ES&H terms embedded in any DOE document, such as Directives, rules, policies and

standards, to ensure consistency in definition and use.

1.2 Background

As a part of DOE's effort under the National Performance Review to eliminate

unnecessary, duplicative and burdensome requirements on its contractors, "New Series

Directives" (3-digit directives) were developed through a streamlining and binning

process, including most ES&H Directives (policies, Orders, notices, manuals and

implementation guides). A Glossary was also developed to serve as the central

repository for terms and definitions. With the Glossary it was agreed that all New Series

Directives would cease to have a definitions section. However, to prevent the Glossary

from becoming a very burdensome document with potentially hundreds of pages of

terms, it was decided that certain specialized program areas, such as the safeguards and

security program, would maintain their own glossaries of terms. In addition, a term

would be omitted or not included if it fit into one of the following four categories:

1) Term is defined in a federal law or statute; or the Code of Federal Regulations.

2) Terms were used exclusively in DOE Technical Standards that are not a part of the

DOE Directive System.

3) Terms with a definition commonly understood in Government, i.e., supervisor,

division, performance appraisal, etc.; however, some exceptions were made, i.e.,

Secretarial Officer, Department Element, etc.

4) Commonly used terms that have many meanings.

This so-called DOE Glossary was frozen on May 16, 1996, and put on the DOE Explorer

System (predecessor to the Directives Web Page). The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety

Board expressed concerns about the absence of crucial terms and definitions in the New

Series Orders. Subsequently, DOE agreed to embed terms critical to the understanding

and implementation of an Order in the Order so that there would not be a need for a user

of an Order to derive terms and definitions from another document. These critical terms

DRAFT