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Fire
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Chapter 7 Baseline
Needs Assessment |
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Purpose
By written
agreement, the City of Newport News Fire Department (NNFD) provides Jefferson
Lab with emergency services consisting of professional fire fighting, hazardous
materials, and emergency medical services. A Baseline Needs Assessment (BNA) is
conducted to establish the fire fighting capabilities needed to provide:
·
effective
response to suppress all fires
·
emergency medical
and hazardous materials response capabilities
· staffing, apparatus, facilities, equipment, training,
pre-plans, offsite assistance, and procedures
This
chapter is written to comply with Department of Energy (DOE) Order 420.1C and
standards described in ES&H
Manual Chapter 2410 Hazard Issue and Contractual Commitments.
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Scope
This document provides guidelines on how to conduct
and maintain a BNA. Additional information regarding requirements is described
in DOE IG 420.1-3. Consult the Baseline
Needs Assessment: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility to review findings and
suggested improvements.
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Responsibilities
Note: Management authority may be delegated to a
task-qualified TJNAF employee at the discretion of the responsible manager.
Fire
Marshal: may use subcontracted professional
engineering services to accomplish and update FHAs according to DOE IG 420.1-3.
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Expectations
4.1
Baseline
Needs Assessments
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Identify relevant codes and
standards.
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Are updated at least every three
years or whenever a significant new hazard is introduced that is not covered by
the current BNA.
4.2
Topics
of consideration, which are more thoroughly described in DOE Standard 1066-2016
Fire Protection, include:
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Organizational responsibilities, collateral
duties, facility hazards, and personnel levels
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Programs that support firefighting and
emergency personnel, including training, physical fitness, and medical programs
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Response time requirements
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Required number of trained firefighters
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Site-specific training and site
familiarization
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Site-specific response requirements,
including hazardous material response, heavy rescue, rough terrain rescue,
chemical or large flammable liquid spills, and wildland fire response
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Required apparatus and equipment
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Process Steps (Appendix)
Update BNA
5.1
Review
most-recent BNA to determine if any topics of consideration were inadequately
covered.
5.2
Notify the AHJ,
NNFD, safety, and medical service representatives of Jefferson Lab that the BNA is being
updated.
Coordinate investigative activities
such as document reviews, interviews with knowledgeable and responsible
personnel, and facility tours of both Jefferson Lab and NNFD.
5.3
Evaluate credible threats to
Jefferson Lab from fires, medical emergencies, hazardous material incidents,
rescue situations and other hazards.
5.3.1 Consider emergency service assets beyond the most proximate fire station
(Station 6), including other NNFD stations, capabilities that are available
through mutual aid agreement and supplementary capabilities provided by Jefferson
Lab (information, trained personnel, firefighting equipment, emergency
response, hazardous material spill containment, medical supplies, etc.).
5.3.2 Answer the following questions in a draft report.
- What is required in the form of an emergency services
capability?
- What does the local fire department have to address
this requirement?
- What does the site have to address / facilitate
meeting this requirement?
- Is the local fire department capability adequate?
- What is the justification for the response to the
previous question?
- Is the site capability (if any) adequate?
- What is the justification for the response to the
previous question?
- What can be done to address inadequacies and improve
the capability of the local fire department and/or the site capability?
5.4
Document
insufficient capabilities found on and off site in the draft report.
· Formulate “Opportunities for Improvement” that offer
alternative (yet equivalent) solutions to achieve literal conformance with the
governing criteria.
· Track corrective actions using the Jefferson Lab Independent
Assessment Procedure.
5.5
Send the draft
report to the DOE Thomas Jefferson Site Office (TJSO) for informal review.
· Allow four weeks for comments.
· Incorporate comments as needed.
5.6
Send the
final report to the TJSO Manager for approval.
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Revision History
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summary |
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0.4 |
triennial
review: updated header and footer per discussion with T. Minga, 04.15.2022; updated
7.0 per footer dates; made general edits and format updates (e.g., bullets,
spacing, etc.) |
04.18.2022 |
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0.3 |
periodic review;
updated Author from EDouberly to TMinga |
06.02.2019 |
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0.2 |
periodic review;
updated TPOC from DKausch to EDouberly |
06.02.2016 |
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0.1 |
periodic
review; updated links |
09.17.2013 |
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0.0 |
initial
release |
09.25.2009 |
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ISSUING
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APPROVAL
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NEXT REVIEW
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Fire Protection Department |
04.18.2022 |
04.18.2025 |
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