Safety requirement specification resources

See Appendix I for a more detailed set of requirements. Specific issues include mission requirements, potential burnup criteria, heat rejection, economic resources, environmental impact, safety, technology development risk, completion schedule, repository issues, social and political acceptance, and diversion and proliferation. In addition to these issues, others that need to be considered include plutonium handling, waste disposal, environmental regulations, safety regulations and analysis, safeguards and security, technology development, economic analysis, and government and public policies. A variety of reactor concepts exists, and each concept has unique and specific concerns. The intent is not to present a complete set of requirements, but to briefly discuss a few selected issues. 

ACC has published a resource guide to aid member companies in implementing the Responsible Care Process Safety Code (ACC, 1989). Although the guide provides suggestions on how to continually improve process safety, it does not prescribe how to comply with the code. It does not list specific requirements for reactive hazard management, but does require management systems to be developed-several of which could apply to reactive hazards as determined by each member company. 

There are different resources for identif5dng and selecting tasks that will require written procedures. Training Needs Assessments, Process Hazards Analyses, and Job Safety Analyses can assist you in analyzing the specific requirements of your plant. 

Safety and loss prevention professionals, as is human nature, often rely on the tried-and-true solutions to problems, which have worked in the past. In the safety and loss prevention area, this often means relying on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSH A) standards or other base-level requirements to resolve the problem. If OSHA requires that a particular problem be addressed in a specific manner, then this is the method that must be used. This tried-and-true method does work however, what does a safety and loss prevention professional do when the answer to a problem is not in the OSHA standards Are there alternative resources Are there other strategies that can be used to obtain a solution to the problem ... 

The purpose of this text is to educate and provide awareness to the safety professional with regard to a number of laws within labor, employment, and related areas that may impact him or her in the course of his or her daily activities. Safety professionals are not expected to become lawyers or even human resource professionals, but they must have a rudimentary knowledge of these laws to avoid stepping on their tail. Simple recognition of the law and the basic requirements of the specific law can often permit safety professionals to avoid a potential pitfall or violation in their actions or inactions. 

As discussed above, although MSDSs are invaluable resources, they suffo- some limitations as applied to risk assessment in the specific context of the laboratory. Appendix B introduces the concept of the Laboratory Chemical Safety Summary (LCSS), which is specifically tailored to the needs of the laboratory worker. As indicated in their name, LCSSs provide information on chemicals in the context of laboratory use. These documents are summaries and are not intended to be comprehensive or to fulfill the needs of all conceivable users of a chemical. In conjunction with the guidelines described in this chapte, the LCSS provides essential information required to assess the risks associated with the use of a particular chemical in the laboratory. 

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