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December 8, 2006

MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION

FROM: CLAY SELL

SUBJECT: Integrated Safety Management Co-Champions

The Department's Integrated Safety Management (ISM) System Manual (DOE M
450.4-1) was approved on November 1, 2006. This is an important
directive providing our expectations on establishing and implementing
effective safety management systems that achieve continuous improvement.

One of my responsibilities in the ISM Manual is to designate the
Department's ISM Champion to lead the Department of Energy (DOE) ISM
Champions Council in their support of line management in developing and
sustaining vital, mature ISM systems. In consideration of the priority
of this effort and my desire to promote partnership between the line and
the newly established Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS), I
have decided to designate two persons to serve as leadership for the
Department's ISM Champions.

It is my intent to have a standing Champion from the newly created
Office of Health, Safety and Security. Dr. Pat Worthington will serve
that role and be accountable to fulfill the requirements of that
position. Dr. Worthington, the Director of the Office of Health and
Safety, within HSS, is responsible for ISM policy and technical
assistance for the Department. She has a depth of experience in
implementation of ISM throughout the DOE complex. She will be in an
excellent position to facilitate access to HSS resources to support line
management in revitalizing ISM implementation.

The Vice Champion will be designated on a rotating basis from line
management.

Dr. Wu, the Chief Safety Officer for the Office of Environmental
Management, was first designated as the Department's ISM Champion in
October 2005. His leadership over the past year has brought about clear
success in raising the level of awareness of the importance of ISM and
revitalizing ISM implementation throughout the DOE complex. I

have asked Dr. Wu to serve in the role of Vice Champion for the coming
year.

I look forward to effective partnering between the line and HSS in
continuing our forward progress on ISM. I ask you to support Dr.
Worthington and Dr. Wu in their efforts. I have also asked the HSS
organization to work with the Office of Management to make the
appropriate changes to the ISM Manual to reflect this arrangement.

**[Distribution:]{.underline}**

Linton Brooks, US

David Garman, US

Raymond Orbach, US

Glenn Podonsky, HS-1

Michael Kilpatrick, HS-1

Mark Whitaker, HS-1.1

Jim Rispoli, EM-1

Dennis Spurgeon, NE-1

Alexander Karsner, EE-1

Jeffrey Jarrett, FE-1

Patricia Worthington, HS-10

Patrice Bubar, HS-30

Thomas Staker, HS-64

David Compton, HS-1.1

Tom D'Agostino, NA-10

Chip Lagdon, US

James McConnell, NA-2

Frank Russo, NA-3

John Evans, NA-3

Van Nguyen, SC-31

Joseph Malinovsky, EE-30

Dae Chung, EM-60

Charlie O'Dell, EM-61

Chuan-Fu Wu, EM-3

Michael Worley, NE-70

A. J. Eggenberger, DNFSB

Camille Yuan-Soo Hoo, LSO

Edwin Wilmot, LASO

Jay Norman, NVSO

Daniel Glenn, PXSO

Richard Arkin, SRSO

Patrice Wagner, SSO

Theodore Sherry, YSO

Karen Boardman, NZ

David Moody, CB

William Taylor, OH

William Murphie, PPPO

Keith Klein, RL

Roy Schepens, RL

Jeffrey Allison, SR

Jack Craig, CBC

Elizabeth Sellers, ID

Gerald Boyd, OR

Roxanne Purucker, SC-AMSO

Robert Wunderlich, SC-CH

Aundra Richards, SC-BSO

Michael Holland, SC-BHSO

Carson Nealy, SC-CH

Joanna Livengood, SC-FSO

Julie Erickson, SC-PNSO

Jerry Faul, SC-PSO

Nancy Sanchez, SC-SSO

James Turi, SC-TJSO

Vernon Daub, CB

Robert Everson, CBC

Geoff Beausoleil, NE-ID

Shirley Olinger, ORP

David Kozlowski, PPPO

Michael Weis, RL

William Spader, SR

Christopher Eckert, OH-WV

Curtis Roth, NNSA-KC

Phillip Hill, NNSA-LS

Fred Bell, NNSA-LA

Stephen Mellington, NNSA-NS

Richard Caummisar, NNSA-PS

Bruce Wilson, NNSA-SV

Ken Zamora, NNSA-SN

Douglas Dearolph, NNSA-OR

David Chaney, NNSA-NZ