Effectiveness - std7501990017

DOE-STD-7501-99

3.3

Integration

The Department has established Integrated Safety Management as a Department-wide approach

for managing and performing work safely. Integrated Safety Management defines five work cycle

functions; identifying the work, analyzing the hazards, defining the controls, performing the work,

and feedback and continuous improvement. It also describes three basic levels of work within

which these functions are performed: the institutional, site and activity levels. It is expected that

lessons learned will be identified, shared and used within each function, for inter-relationships

among functions and within and among the three organizational levels of work planning and

performance.

An effective lessons learned program is integrated throughout the management chain and across

functional areas. This integration includes personnel at all levels and crosses organizational

boundaries such as administration; financial systems; human resources; training; quality

programs; operations; maintenance; engineering; environment, safety and health; and safeguards

and security programs. Contractor's business processes for work planning, budgeting,

authorization, execution, and change control are specified in the DEAR as processes that must be

integrated, monitored and verified on an annual basis.

Effectiveness

3.4

Methods for evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of the organizational lessons learned

program should be established such that the costs and benefits of lessons learned can be

assessed on a periodic basis. The goal of effectiveness measurement is to assist local

management in monitoring and improving the value that lessons learned provide to the

organization. Appendix C contains a sample Lessons Learned Program Assessment Guide with

assessment criteria for six major program elements at several levels of development, from first

implementation through steady-state, established functioning. Managers may use the guide directly

or use it as an example to develop their own criteria to evaluate the status of their lessons learned

programs.