Carol Scott, (ORNL) - Oak Ridge National Laboratory is enhancing its materials management life cycle to better manage surplus chemicals accumulated over years. ORNL is starting an initiative that will provide a centralized facility for storing and segregating surplus chemicals for reuse and recycling. Our fiscal year 2000 goal is to reduce the hazardous materials inventory by 30% and up to an addition 20% next fiscal year.

Sandra L. Johnson, (DOE RL) - Prime contractors at the Hanford Site are required to use Chemical Management Program Requirements (CMP) to implement consistent chemical management across the site. Each contractor’s CMP incorporates the principles of Integrated Safety Management and is based on the complexity and severity of each contractor’s chemical hazards.

Dave Quigley, (INEEL) - INEEL developed the Chemical Data Summary Sheet (CDSS) to correct and eliminate many identified deficiencies in their chemical management program. The CDSS provides employees with critical safety information about every chemical or chemical product they use or store.

Results of the Chemical Storage Requirements Pilot - The Chemical Storage Requirements Pilot conducted in 1999 distributed a consolidated listing of requirements for safe chemical storage, along with a survey, to chemical users across the DOE complex. The results indicate that the effort to consolidate requirements is useful and should continue.

DOE Chemical-Related Requirements and Safety Analysis Expectations - The project on DOE Chemical-Related Requirements and Safety Analysis Expectations addressed DOE facility authorization bases and safety analyses for non-nuclear facilities that use chemicals. DOE’s expectations in a facility authorization basis document and the existing DOE mandated chemical safety requirements are discussed.

Current Chemical Safety Analysis Practices at the DOE Complex - Ingle Paik, (EFCOG/WSMS) - Representatives of ten major DOE sites provided examples of procedures and analyses, including chemical hazard category, chemical facility categorization criteria, chemical screening criteria, functional classification methodology , risk binning, and others. A draft report will be posted on the DOE-EH Chemical Safety Program and EFCOG/Chemical Safety Subgroup's websites.

Chemical Safety Analysis at INEEL - Robert Nitschke,( INEEL) - The presentation entails a brief description of the hazard classification and safety analysis process for other-than-nuclear facilities at INEEL with specific emphasis on chemical hazards.

Experimental Safety Review in a Basic Research Facility - Sue Morss, (ANL) -

Industrial Hygiene Coordinating Committee Perspectives on Non-Nuclear Safety Analysis - Jay Larson, (DOE/SC-83, IHCC Chair) - An ongoing debate in the DOE as to the need for a chemical safety directive is based on the perceived regulatory gap between the OSHA Process Safety Management regulation and standards that address smaller quantities of chemicals. The Department's policy requiring the implementation of Integrated Safety Management (ISM) programs, requires the identification and control all hazards, regardless of the applicability of specific regulations or standards. The key to managing DOE's chemical risks is effective integration into the overarching framework of ISM, not the development another stovepipe approach to hazard control.

Chemical Safety Analysis at ORNL/Y-12 Sarah Hartson, (DOE/NNSA/Y-12/DP) - At Y-12, it is DOE’s expectation that all hazardous activities and operations are properly identified, analyzed and controlled and that at the facility level an authorization basis (AB) is developed that will not only document the hazards and controls but also provide for all worker, public and environmental commitments. The AB will define the safety management programs that must be implemented and complied with in order to ensure that work is done in a safe, formal and integrated manner. In order to ensure continued safe operations within this AB, a formal change control process must be developed so that all modifications and changes will be analyzed for impact against the current AB and potential incorporation. Additionally, an authorization agreement delineating the scope of activities within the facility, current and future safety and health commitments as well as vulnerabilities must be defined and signed by both the M&O contractor and DOE. This will establish formal acknowledgment and agreement on the work being done within the facility and mechanisms in place to ensure that the work is accomplished in a safe manner.

David Sheffey, (LMES, Oak Ridge) -

Chemical Safety Analysis at LANL - Lisa Garner, (MST-OPS Engineering, LANL) - The process to prepare non-nuclear authorization basis documents for the new Beryllium Technology Facility (BTF) at Los Alamos National Laboratory was a challenge because guidelines were not readily available. A "What If" Chemical Safety Analysis Conducted at LANL identified hazards and established controls for worker safety for each operation.