# Presentation: 346967

## Integrated Safety Management (ISM)
Awareness

**Awareness**

## What is Integrated Safety Management?

**It’s a Framework to integrate safety and work**
**It helps in protecting the Worker, Public, and Environment**
**It is a common sense approach to “**_**Doing Work Safely”**_**.**

## What is Integrated Safety Management?

**Five ISM Core Functions**
**Define the scope of work**
**Identify and analyze the hazards**
**Develop and implement hazard controls**
**Perform work safely within controls**
**Feedback and improvement**

## Integrated Safety Management Applicability

**When is ISM Applicable?**
- Always --**  “**_**To All Work”**_
- Throughout the life cycle of research, design, construction, operations and maintenance
**The ISM bottom line: **_**All Work Planned**_
- Pre-Work Screening
- Plan of the Day Meetings
- Pre-Job Briefings
- Job Site Walkthroughs
- Experimental Safety Reviews (ESRs) / Work Permits

## How is ISM Implemented?

**Through the application of:**
**Worker Safety and Health Program**
**Environmental Management System (EMS)**
**The 5 Core Functions (Institutional, Facility, Activity Levels)**
**Institutional Level Work – **Planning and establishing BNL goals, objectives and operating/performance expectations
**Facility Level Work – **Facilities/Buildings operational boundary activities (e.g. Facility Use Agreement, Safety Assessment Document)
**Activity Level Work – **Science and technology machine operations, basic and applied research and operations, maintenance, construction and _**“Skill of the Worker”**_ activities

## Skill of the Worker (SOW)

**Work scope is prescreened by Supervisor/Manager.**
**Hazards are pre-identified.  Workers are trained to identify hazards.  Boundaries are set for “SOW”**
**Hazard controls are pre-identified.  Controls are in place and/or implemented by qualified workers.**
**Work is authorized and supervised**** ****by Supervisor/Manager.  Interrupt/stop work if conditions extend beyond training and experience.**
**Verbal feedback, occasional written feedback.**

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***What kind of work do you perform?***
- Small Science & Technology – (i.e. basic and applied research)
- Operations, maintenance, construction & Support – (i.e. electrical, carpentry, mechanical, grounds, operator, etc.)
-  Large Science &Technology Machines – (i.e. NSLS electrician, RHIC operator, etc.)
- Skill of the Worker Activities
***How do you define the scope of work?***
- Job site walk downs, Pre-job briefings
- Work Plans, Technical Work Documents, Work Permits, Radiological Work Permits, Experimental Safety Reviews
- Work screening to determine if the activity falls within the “Skill of the Worker”
- Plan of the Day meetings – activity discussions and assignment of work activities
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for operations

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***How do you identify hazards associated with your work?***
- Pre-job planning meetings, pre-job walkthroughs, review of procedure precautions
- Experimental Safety Reviews (ESRs), Work permit, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
- Training, Pre-Job Screening
- Job risk assessment (JRA) / Facility Risk Assessments (FRA), Environmental Process Assessments, Job Specific Work Permit reviews
- Industrial Hygiene and Radiological Control surveys
- Facility Use Agreements (FUAs) – operating boundary and facility hazards
- Job Hazard Analysis, Radiological Work Permits (RWPs)

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***Who do you go to for help?***
- Supervisors, Work Control Coordinators/Managers
- ES&H Coordinator, Facility Support Representatives, Safety & Health Service Representatives
- Building Managers, Subject Matter Experts
***What controls are in place to protect you from identified hazards?***
- Controls established in ESRs, Work Permits, RWPs and JRAs/FRAs
- SOPs are the developed and written such that controls for compliance with safety and health requirements are identified, evaluated and incorporated into procedures
- SBMS Subject Area requirements (confined space, working with chemicals, lifting safety, lockout/tag out, etc)
- Subject Mater Experts (SMEs)

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***How are you monitored for exposure to hazards?***
- Facility Support Representatives, Radiological Control Technicians (RCTs) and Safety & Health Service Representatives perform monitoring
- Occupational Medicine Clinic (OMC) provides Medical Surveillance (e.g. lead, noise, blood borne pathogens, etc.)
- TLD’s, whole body counts, bioassay, etc
***What and/or who authorized you to perform this work?***
- Manager/Supervisor verification that adequate preparations have been completed so that work can be performed safely
- Work Authorization by Supervisors and Managers approval by issuance of ESRs, Work Permits, SOPs & RWPs
- Daily job assignments and pre-job briefings by supervisors/managers
- Work screening to determine if the activity falls within the “Skill of the Worker”

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***How do you know you are trained and qualified to perform this work?***
- Assigned job training assessment (JTA) define technical qualifications required
- Receive notifications well in advance of qualifications expiring (Brookhaven Training Management System [BTMS])
- Meeting the training requirements documented on ESRs, Work permits, SOPs and RWPs.
- Supervisors, facility support and work control coordinators verify qualifications before work is authorized to start
***How do you know what  personal protective equipment (PPE) is required to do your work? What types of PPE do you use?***
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), ESR, Work Permit, Work Plan, RWP, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), & through Training
- Safety glasses, safety shoes, double set of anti-contamination clothing (Tyvek), hard hat, ear protection, etc.
- By speaking to your ES&H Coordinator, Industrial Hygiene Group or your Facility Support Representative

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***Under what conditions are you authorized to stop work?**** *
- Radiological work that does not meet Laboratory requirements or creates a threat of unplanned radiological exposures or releases
- Imminent danger exists when you or a co-worker are exposed to a hazard that could result in injury, death, or when there is a significant risk of environmental or equipment damage, and when immediate action is required
- Radiological Stop Work and Stop Work subject areas
- To issue a stop work order you must have been trained in stop work procedures

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***When you are performing the job, what happens if additional/new hazards are identified or the work scope changes?***
- If imminent danger exist, issue stop work order
- Inform supervisor of changes in work conditions or of new hazards
- Consult with ES&H coordinator, Facility Support, Work Control Coordinator/Manager and/or Subject Matter Expert to develop and implement hazard controls (engineering, administrative, pre-work survey or screening)
- Have an authorized person amend the work plan, permit, SOP, RWP, ESR etc.
- Conduct pre-job briefing to inform personnel of new hazards, controls and/or training requirements
- Signoff on and issue revised work authorization documents

## ISM Awareness/Expectations

***What is your responsibility regarding personal and co-worker safety, and where is it documented?***
- Follow prescribed rules and procedures within your authority
- Implement Stop Work Order, if you are trained in Stop Work Procedures
- R2A2, Performance Appraisal
- Job Training Assessments (JTAs)
***How do you provide feedback about work performed, and to whom? (Give examples)***
- Feedback is provided through post job reviews
- Documented on work permits
- Communicate improvements to processes to Principal Investigators, Supervisors and managers – SOPs, RWPs, work permits, experimental safety reviews (ESRs), and/or Technical Work Documents are revised/changed to reflect improved processes
- Lessons Learned (LL) communications are developed and submitted to the BNL LL Coordinator
- Verbal communications with Supervisors & Managers

## ISM Responsibilities 

- Know and support the message that **“All work is planned”**
- Know how work is planned and controlled in your everyday work activities
- Be actively involved in identification, planning and improvement of work and work practices
- Be familiar with your facility documentation and work authorizations, including facility operating boundaries [Facility Use Agreements (FUAs)], Job Risk Assessments (JRAs) and Facility Risk Assessments (FRAs) [i.e. how they are integrated in work planning & control]
- Display individual Attitude and Responsibility for Safety
- Accept responsibility for safe performance
- Have a questioning attitude by challenging assumptions
- Consider potential adverse consequences of planned actions
- Assist each other in preventing unsafe acts or behaviors

## ISM Responsibilities

- Even though an activity may “seem safe,” review a new task to identify if activities go beyond the scope of work authorized, and thus require additional controls and authorizations
- Take two minutes to verify that current activities have not crept beyond the scope of work authorized
- Always perform work within established controls and authorizations
- Stop and seek input from supervisors, managers, ES&H Coordinators, Building Managers or Facility Support Representatives if conditions change and/or work extends beyond authorizations
- Consider the influence of human factors can have on your decision making
- Am I cutting corners by rushing to meet a deadline?
- Am I taking hazards/controls for granted because I’ve done this many times before?
- Is my desire to succeed technically compromising sound Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) judgment?

## Have any questions?

- Contact any of the following:
- Your Supervisor
- ES&H Coordinator
- Facility Support Representative
- S&HS IH Representative
- ISM SME – Steve Coleman