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DOE plans review of Lab-wide safety program The Department of Energy will review Jefferson Lab's Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) March 1 - 4. All JLab staff are subject to interview by DOE Review Team members, according to Ron Sundelin, Associate Director, Office of Technical Performance (OTP). To prepare for this review, Lab staff are asked to attend ISMS Awareness Workshops being conducted by OTP. Staff may sign up for a workshop by calling ext. 7128 or by visiting the Lab1s training web page at mis.jlab.org/ingenium. "Many facilities have large safety groups, and rely on those groups to make sure that the people doing the work do it safely," Sundelin said, explaining the history of the ISMS. "Jefferson Lab has always believed the best way to accomplish work safely is to have workers and their line managers decide how the work can be accomplished safely." This approach was reinforced in January 1993, when the members of the small centralized safety group joined the areas of line management where their expertise was most frequently needed. In 1995, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), which does not oversee JLab, recommended to then Secretary of Energy Hazel O1Leary that workers and their line managers integrate safety into the work being done. Secretary O'Leary adopted this recommendation, and made a commitment to apply it throughout the DOE. Because we were already operating very closely to the safety board1s recommendations, very few changes from our original way of conducting work safely were required, Sundelin pointed out. ISMS is now a DOE policy and a requirement of our contract. The one-hour ISMS Awareness Workshops started in January and are offered twice a week through February 18. If you haven1t attended one of the workshops yet, plan to attend one of the remaining sessions:
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