Mangement Resposibilities

DOE-STD-1158-2002

tours of facilities, interviews of personnel, reviews of documentation, and observations of work

practices. Important safety issues may be missed entirely if assessments are limited to

paperwork reviews only. Criticality safety related ORPS data, including conduct of operations

occurrences potentially affecting criticality safety, are relevant to such reviews and should be

utilized.

In each of the sections that follows, specific lines of inquiry are presented for each of the major

criterion sections of ANSI/ANS-8.19-1996. These are keyed to the ANSI Standard by topic

heading and subsection number within the Standard itself.

1.0 MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Criteria: Section 4.1, Responsibility for Safety

Does the Contractor Facility Management demonstrate continuing interest in criticality safety as

evidenced by conducting safety meetings, issuing safety bulletins, inspecting facilities on a regular

basis, and ensuring continuous improvement in safety?

Does the Contractor Facility Management demonstrate continuing interest in criticality safety as

evidenced by regular meetings with the criticality safety engineers and the Nuclear Criticality Safety

(NCS) manager?

Does the Contractor Program Management regularly meet with the NCS manager?

Criteria: Section 4.2, Criticality Safety Policy

Does the Contractor have a written criticality safety policy?

Are all fissile material handlers and their supervisors familiar with the criticality safety policy?

How is compliance to the Contractor criticality safety policy required of all program personnel

performing work?

Criteria: Section 4.3, Responsibility for Implementing Policy

Are the roles and responsibilities of the Criticality Safety Engineers (CSEs) documented?

Are the roles and responsibilities of the NCS Manager and Organization documented?

Are the roles and responsibilities of the Criticality Safety Officers (CSOs) documented, if applicable?

Is there a clear distinction between the roles of the CSO and the CSE?

Is line management assigned responsibility for criticality safety?

Has the Contractor assigned responsibility for oversight of the NCS program?

Criteria: Section 4.4, Criticality Safety Staff Independent of Operations

Does the Contractor have sufficient funding to assure continuous support by NCS Staff?

Does the Contractor management provide discretionary funding to the NCS manager to provide

training and professional development for the NCS staff, to address laboratory wide issues, to

maintain the NCS program documentation, and to ensure that criticality safety codes and platforms

are verified and validated?

Does the NCS Staff have unilateral, unscheduled access to the facility and operations personnel?