Standard Operating Procedures (cont)

DOE-STD-1091-96

greater than 10 degrees. An exception shall be for special response

team (SRT) courses developed by the CTA and approved by Office of

Security Affairs and conducted by the CTA or by sites certified to conduct

CTA SRT courses. The ratio for these excepted courses shall be no

greater than one-to-four.

(b) One-to-four for re-qualification with a submachine gun, rifle, or machine

gun in automatic mode using controlled bursts of fire and for practice or

training for personnel who have qualified in at least one automatic course

of fire in the DOE Firearms Qualification Manual.

in semiautomatic mode, shotgun, semiautomatic rifle, and handgun),

except during night firing and initial raining where the

instructor-to-shooter ratio shall be no greater than one-to-four. When

using an indoor range, whether daylight or simulated night fire, the in-

structor-to-shooter ratio shall be on greater than one-to-five.

A range safety officer or an instructor with specific delineated responsibilities

for range safety (e.g., monitoring the safety performance of the shooters as

well as overall safety of the firing range) shall be present during all firearms

training activities, qualification, or re-qualification activities.

When the shooter-to-instructor ratio requires only one instructor on the firing

line, he or she shall be the lead instructor and may be assigned range safety

responsibilities if approved by the range master.

When the shooter-to-instructor ratio requires two or more instructors on the

firing line, there shall be a lead instructor presiding over the firing activities

(i.e., "calling the line") who will not be assigned additional instructional duties

or be included in the shooter-to-instructor ratio, but may be assigned range

safety responsibilities. To accomplish these activities, the lead instructor

may be positioned either behind the firing