Overview:

Safety requirements and standards for ORO contractors come from two sources:

• Federal, state, and local laws and regulations applicable to the work being performed, and
• Requirements established in the contract.
  

In most ORO prime contracts for the operation of facilities and sites, contractual requirements related to safety come either from the integrated safety management systems (ISMS) clause or the laws and Directives clause. The ISMS clause typically requires contractors to develop a plan for managing safety that must be approved by ORO. It also may contain or reference an

Contract Appendix

The "contract requirements baseline appendix" lists DOE and ORO Directives (Orders, Manuals, and Notices), and references WSS Sets and S/RIDs that have been determined to be applicable to the contract, and which are not covered by an alternate standards-setting mechanism. As new and revised Directives are issued that appear to be appropriate for inclusion in the contract appendix, they are referred to the contractor for consideration.

The contractor has 30 days to provide information back to ORO relating to the applicability of the Directive and its potential impact.

Based on this information, ORO may determine that the document is not applicable to the contract, or may direct the addition of the document to the contract appendix and the preparation of an implementation plan where immediate compliance is not possible. The contractor is required to comply with Directives listed in the contract appendix, as modified by an approved implementation plan. Where an implementation plan is under development, however, immediate compliance with all requirements cannot be expected.

Standards/
Requirements
Identification
Documents

Lockheed Martin contracts and the contract for the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) developed S/RlDs that contained applicable ES&H requirements. Lockheed Martin contracts also contained a contract appendix of applicable non-ES&H related Directives not included in the S/RID. S/RlDs are authorized in a document jointly issued in September 1994 by DOE offices of Defense Programs and Environmental Management. ORO obtained permission from the DOE offices of Energy Research and Nuclear Energy to develop S/RlDs covering all Lockheed Martin activities. They were reviewed by a multidisciplinary team of DOE and contractors, and approved by ORO management. S/RlDs include laws, regulations, DOE Directives, and national consensus standards relating to ES&H safety management, and emergency preparedness. Maintenance and improvement of S/RlDs is ongoing using a documented process. In the long term, we intend to merge our S/RlDs process and the Work Smart Standards process into a unified method of ensuring adequate ES&H requirements.  The process being used for the development, revision, and maintenance of S/RIDs is documented in ORO Order 250, Chapter 7.

Work Smart
Standards

Work Smart Standards (WSS) sets are developed through the Necessary and Sufficient Closure Process. This mechanism, which drew heavily in its development on ORO's experience with S/RlDs, was authorized for use in DOE in January 1996. ORO was authorized to develop WSS sets for all its Lockheed Martin facilities, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and the Oak Ridge Water Treatment Plant. WSS sets were completed for theese facilities. The letters authorizing the use of the WSS sets as contractual obligations usually outline the relationship and may direct conforming changes to the other documents. The process being used for the development of the WSS sets is documented in ORO Order 250, Chapter V. This Directive conforms to the requirements contained in DOE M 450.3-1, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY CLOSURE PROCESS FOR NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT SETS OF STANDARDS. ORO's projects have been done under the oversight of the Department Standards Committee headed by the Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health.