On August 14, 2003, the largest power blackout in North American history affected an area with an estimated 50 million people and 61,800 megawatts (MW) of electric load in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Co...

Storage Capacity of the Iligh Level Waste Tanks at the Savannah River Site

Issued to BWXT Y-12 related to Quality Assurance Deficiencies in construction activities at the Y-12 National Security Complex Highly Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility

DOE-HDBK-1139-2006, Chemical Management

This non-mandatory Handbook is designed to assist Department of Energy (DOE) and contractor managers in assessing chemical hazard management and is approved for use by all DOE Components and their contractors. Examples of best practices needed to institute high-quality chemical management within the context of a site's Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) are provided.

This chapter identifies and consolidates existing user safety and health requirements found in DOE and Federal chemical-related safety and health regulations and National Standards that address hazard analysis of activities involving chemicals (see definition) and chemical products (see definition). State and local codes and requirements are NOT included.

This non-mandatory Handbook is designed to assist Department of Energy (DOE) and contractor managers in assessing chemical hazard management and is approved for use by all DOE Components and their contractors. Examples of best practices needed to institute high-quality chemical management within the context of a site's Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) are provided.

Volume 2 supplements the core Handbook. This volume presents site approaches to chemical management programs from across the DOE complex and the chemical industry to illustrate chemical management program implementation. In some cases these samples have been reformatted to reflect the organization in Volume 1, making it easier to find specific information.

Chemicals are ubiquitous in DOE’s nuclear and non-nuclear operations. Given their wide application, it is not surprising that chemical incidents or exposures continue at a rate of approximately one a day. With respect to major accidents, chemicals are the second leading cause of DOE Type A & B accidents, exceeded only by those attributed to radiation.