EHS Manuals & Procedures of DOE National Laboratories
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Aaron Zude; Facilities & Safety Solutions
Face it, we all like to know what other people are doing in regards to the management and implementation of their EHS programs. Whether it is to verify that what we are doing is aligned with others in similar situations, or to ferret out new ideas or approaches, there is tremendous value in such “benchmarking”. However, due to confidentiality and intellectual property concerns most of us simply do not have access to the written programs and practices of other companies.
Fortunately, since our tax dollars are used in support of research conducted through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, a lot of really good EHS information is available on-line to the public from these research centers.
The following are links directly to the EHS policies, manuals, procedures and forms used at some of the National Labs. I’ve listed them roughly in order of those I thought to be the most robust, but all of the sites have good information depending on their area of research and your interests.
If the link I’ve provided does not have the information you are interested in, try doing a key word search either within the EHS section or from the main page for that National Lab (see the link at the end). Sometimes there are useful documents available that are otherwise buried within the site.
DOE National Laboratory EHS Links:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Facility ES&H Page (Links to manuals, procedures, forms, etc.): http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/
AMES Laboratory Environmental, Safety, Health & Assurance Safety Documents Page (Links to manuals, procedures, forms, etc.):http://www.external.ameslab.gov/esha/ESH&A_Documents/documents.html
Brookhaven National Laboratory Standards Based Management System (Links to SOP’s/Manuals by subject): https://sbms.bnl.gov/ch00d011.htm
Brookhaven National Laboratory IH SOP’s: http://www.bnl.gov/esh/shsd/ih/SOPs.htm
Brookhaven National Laboratory EHS Standards: https://sbms.bnl.gov/ld/ld08/ld08t011.htm
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Health and Safety Manual (Pub-3000): http://www.lbl.gov/ehs/pub3000/
Argonne National Laboratory (Physics Division) EHS Pages: http://www.phy.anl.gov/div/esh/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ES&H Home Page: http://www.llnl.gov/es_and_h/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ES&H Manual: http://www.llnl.gov/es_and_h/esh-manual.html
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ES&H Handbook & Manual: http://www-esh.fnal.gov/pls/default/esh_home_page.page?this_page=15053
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Radiological Control Manual: http://www-esh.fnal.gov/pls/default/esh_home_page.page?this_page=900
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Nanoscale Science and Technology Laboratory Clean Room) Laboratory Usage and Safety Manual: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/nstl/docs/manual.pdf
Hanford Site Program Desk Manual for Occupational Safety & Health: http://www.hanford.gov/docs/rl-98-61/rl-98-61.html
Sandia National Laboratories Facilities Engineering Standards: http://www.sandia.gov/engstds/
Link to DOE National Laboratory home pages (About halfway down the page under “Overview”):http://www.science.doe.gov/sub/about/About-overview.htm
Aaron Zude
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