Basic and applied sciences to safety considerations.

DOE-STD-1160-2003

Environmental protection

Nuclear safety.

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

a. Discuss applicability of occupational safety and health criteria in DOE Orders to nuclear

safety.

b. Describe potential impact of nuclear safety requirements on occupational safety matters

and discuss need for coordination between occupational safety professionals and

health physicists.

c. Discuss applicable "safety and analysis" and "review system criteria" for nuclear

facilities.

d. Discuss industrial hygiene fundamentals in terms of the following:

Basic terminology

Nature, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards

Necessary elements for implementing and maintaining an effective industrial

hygiene program.

e. Discuss relationship and need for coordination that exists between the disciplines of

occupational safety, industrial safety, health physics, and occupational medicine.

Discuss DOE's occupational medicine program requirements and their

applicability/interface with occupational safety program requirements.

g. Discuss general requirements of DOE's environmental protection program and describe

how these requirements interface with the occupational safety program.

h. Discuss interface with, and the general requirements for, DOE's Safeguards and

Security Program.

Discuss existing interface between occupational safety personnel and safeguards and

security personnel, including situations where security considerations conflict with

personnel safety (e.g., locked fire exits, security barriers creating tripping hazards).

18. Occupational safety personnel shall demonstrate familiarity with the application of

basic and applied sciences to safety considerations.

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

a. Discuss role of mathematical tools (e.g., algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, and

symbolic logic) in the safety field in analyzing quantities, magnitudes, and probabilities.

b. Discuss physics laws associated with mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity,

magnetism, and radiation and application of these laws in the safety field.

c. Discuss basic chemistry concepts including atomic structure, bonding, states of matter,

chemical energy and equilibrium, and chemical kinetics.

d. Discuss biological sciences including heredity, diversity, reproduction, development,

structure, and function of cells, organisms, and populations, with emphasis on human

biology.