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HENP Directorate Structure HENP Directorate Structure

Department Personnel Department Chair

• M. Murtagh

EMS Team

• M. Zarcone
• L. Cunniff (ECR)

Physics EMS Rep.

• R. Gill

EMS Team

• D. Grabowski
• D. Bauer (ECR)

Department Personnel Department Chair

• V. Radeka

Instrumentation EMS Rep.

• R. DiNardo

EMS Directorate Rep.

• R. Gill

Associate Lab Director

• T. Kirk

PO EMS IO EMS

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EMS Management Review – HENP EMS Management Review – HENP

Program Description Review of Assessments Stakeholder Concerns EMS Improvements Pollution Prevention Initiatives Environmental Performance Financial Investments Questions & Answers Program Evaluation by Senior Management

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EMS & ESR Connections EMS & ESR Connections

Approve Experiment Do Work Modification

• r Annual

Update Modify Systems Evaluate Impacts Controls Safety Issues Revise EMP & OCF Develop Controls New Aspect Include in EMP & OCF Existing EMS Aspect Identification Committee Review Identify Activity and Submit ESR DER & ECR EMS Requirements Improvements, etc.

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EMS Program Description – Physics EMS Program Description – Physics

Operations

• Small scale experiments & Special areas – ESR process
• Machine shops – PEP process

Key Elements – Integration

• Aspect identification, controls & management plans

integrated into ESR process

• Communication

– Web pages (EMS information & training) – Weekly meetings with Chair & key personnel – Group Safety Coordinators – Department “All Hands” meetings

• EMS Assessments

– Integrated into Department self-assessment plan – Integrated with Tier I where effective

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Significant Aspects Identified Significant Aspects Identified

Industrial Waste – various oils

• Haz. Waste

– from small scale experiments: solvents, epoxy, Hg, chems.

• Rad. Waste

– from decayed sealed sources: an anticipated waste stream

Medical Waste

– non-medical use of syringes: epoxy & grease application

• Atmos. Dischg.

– permit for abrasive saw in shop

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Review of Assessments Review of Assessments

Compliance – No Issues

• Satellite areas listed & inspected
• 90-Day area maintained
• Radioactive waste storage maintained
• All permits in order

System – April 2000 Audit

• Implementation is good
• Improved self-assessment to address findings
• Expanded E controls to address concerns

Haz Waste is Main Aspect

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Stakeholder Concerns Stakeholder Concerns

Issues and Actions

• Activists – none
• Community – none

– Personnel give lectures – Involved in BNL open days

• Regulators – none

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EMS Improvements EMS Improvements

Aspect Analysis EMS Maintenance Compliance Assessment via Tier I’s Pollution Prevention Explicitly Included

• Dept. Web Pages & Internal Shared Files
• Aspect identification (ESRs)
• EM plans & Operational controls
• Training, program descriptions & other information

Integrated into ESR Process

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Pollution Prevention Initiatives Pollution Prevention Initiatives

Hazardous Waste

• Antifreeze → recycle
• Solder scraps → recycle
• Alkaline batteries → trash
• Waste ethanol → sink disposal
• Reduced satellite areas 40 → 15

“Free Table” Radioactive Source Inventory Annual Chemical Inventory

$ Savings $ Resource recovery

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Environmental Performance Environmental Performance

Physics Waste Generation

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 CY97 CY98 CY99 CY00 Hazardous Industrial Radioactive

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Environmental Performance Environmental Performance

Objectives

• EMS implementation complete, milestones met
• Compliance with Regs
• P2/waste reduction

Performance Measures (Goals)

• PEP corrective actions (95%) → 100%
• Evaluate & disposition APC (25%) → 40%
• Prioritize & evaluate P2 opportunity (1) → 2
• Tier I inspections → 97% on time, 33% with ECR

Integrated into ESR & Tier I process

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Financial Investments Financial Investments

Time & Effort

• Physics → 1,200 ± 10% person-hours
• ECR (included above) → 0.3 FTE

Other Resources

• Web servers → minimal additional costs

Sustaining EMS

• Physics → 0.3 FTE
• ECR → 0.3 FTE

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EMS Management Review – Physics EMS Management Review – Physics

Questions & Answers

• Your particular questions on EMS

Senior Management EMS Program Evaluation

• Identify possible improvement actions →

assign responsibility to track & implement

• Suggestions will be recorded & actions taken.
• Five general topics

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Senior Management EMS Evaluation Senior Management EMS Evaluation

Effective in Achieving Policy

• Commitments?

Effective in Achieving

Objectives & Performance Measures?

Is EMS Adequate in Terms of:

• Identification of significant

aspects & impacts?

• Resource allocation?
• Information systems?

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Senior Management EMS Evaluation Senior Management EMS Evaluation

Objectives & Performance

• Measures Suitable in Terms of:
• Impacts & current conditions?
• Concerns of stakeholders?
• Current & future regulatory

requirements?

• Internal organizational or process

changes?

Recommend Revisions to:

• Environmental policy & commitments?
• Objectives & performance measures?
• Elements of EMS?