10 C.F.R. Subpart C—Specific Program Requirements
Title 10 - Energy
(a) Management responsibilities. Contractors are responsible for the safety and health of their workforce and must ensure that contractor management at a covered workplace: (1) Establish written policy, goals, and objectives for the worker safety and health program; (2) Use qualified worker safety and health staff (e.g., a certified industrial hygienist, or safety professional) to direct and manage the program; (3) Assign worker safety and health program responsibilities, evaluate personnel performance, and hold personnel accountable for worker safety and health performance; (4) Provide mechanisms to involve workers and their elected representatives in the development of the worker safety and health program goals, objectives, and performance measures and in the identification and control of hazards in the workplace; (5) Provide workers with access to information relevant to the worker safety and health program; (6) Establish procedures for workers to report without reprisal job-related fatalities, injuries, illnesses, incidents, and hazards and make recommendations about appropriate ways to control those hazards; (7) Provide for prompt response to such reports and recommendations; (8) Provide for regular communication with workers about workplace safety and health matters; (9) Establish procedures to permit workers to stop work or decline to perform an assigned task because of a reasonable belief that the task poses an imminent risk of death, serious physical harm, or other serious hazard to workers, in circumstances where the workers believe there is insufficient time to utilize normal hazard reporting and abatement procedures; and (10) Inform workers of their rights and responsibility by appropriate means, including posting the DOE-designated Worker Protection Poster in the workplace where it is accessible to all workers. (b) Worker rights and responsibilities. Workers must comply with the requirements of this part, including the worker safety and health program, which are applicable to their own actions and conduct. Workers at a covered workplace have the right, without reprisal, to: (1) Participate in activities described in this section on official time; (2) Have access to: (i) DOE safety and health publications; (ii) The worker safety and health program for the covered workplace; (iii) The standards, controls, and procedures applicable to the covered workplace; (iv) The safety and health poster that informs the worker of relevant rights and responsibilities; (v) Limited information on any recordkeeping log (OSHA Form 300). Access is subject to Freedom of Information Act requirements and restrictions; and (vi) The DOE Form 5484.3 (the DOE equivalent to OSHA Form 301) that contains the employee's name as the injured or ill worker; (3) Be notified when monitoring results indicate the worker was overexposed to hazardous materials; (4) Observe monitoring or measuring of hazardous agents and have the results of their own exposure monitoring; (5) Have a representative authorized by employees accompany the Director or his authorized personnel during the physical inspection of the workplace for the purpose of aiding the inspection. When no authorized employee representative is available, the Director or his authorized representative must consult, as appropriate, with employees on matters of worker safety and health; (6) Request and receive results of inspections and accident investigations; (7) Express concerns related to worker safety and health; (8) Decline to perform an assigned task because of a reasonable belief that, under the circumstances, the task poses an imminent risk of death or serious physical harm to the worker coupled with a reasonable belief that there is insufficient time to seek effective redress through normal hazard reporting and abatement procedures; and (9) Stop work when the worker discovers employee exposures to imminently dangerous conditions or other serious hazards; provided that any stop work authority must be exercised in a justifiable and responsible manner in accordance with procedures established in the approved worker safety and health program. (a) Contractors must establish procedures to identify existing and potential workplace hazards and assess the risk of associated workers injury and illness. Procedures must include methods to: (1) Assess worker exposure to chemical, physical, biological, or safety workplace hazards through appropriate workplace monitoring; (2) Document assessment for chemical, physical, biological, and safety workplace hazards using recognized exposure assessment and testing methodologies and using of accredited and certified laboratories; (3) Record observations, testing and monitoring results; (4) Analyze designs of new facilities and modifications to existing facilities and equipment for potential workplace hazards; (5) Evaluate operations, procedures, and facilities to identify workplace hazards; (6) Perform routine job activity-level hazard analyses; (7) Review site safety and health experience information; and (8) Consider interaction between workplace hazards and other hazards such as radiological hazards. (b) Contractors must submit to the Head of DOE Field Element a list of closure facility hazards and the established controls within 90 days after identifying such hazards. The Head of DOE Field Element, with concurrence by the Cognizant Secretarial Officer, has 90 days to accept the closure facility hazard controls or direct additional actions to either: (1) Achieve technical compliance; or (2) Provide additional controls to protect the workers. (c) Contractors must perform the activities identified in paragraph (a) of this section, initially to obtain baseline information and as often thereafter as necessary to ensure compliance with the requirements in this Subpart. (a) Contractors must establish and implement a hazard prevention and abatement process to ensure that all identified and potential hazards are prevented or abated in a timely manner. (1) For hazards identified either in the facility design or during the development of procedures, controls must be incorporated in the appropriate facility design or procedure. (2) For existing hazards identified in the workplace, contractors must: (i) Prioritize and implement abatement actions according to the risk to workers; (ii) Implement interim protective measures pending final abatement; and (iii) Protect workers from dangerous safety and health conditions; (b) Contractors must select hazard controls based on the following hierarchy: (1) Elimination or substitution of the hazards where feasible and appropriate; (2) Engineering controls where feasible and appropriate; (3) Work practices and administrative controls that limit worker exposures; and (4) Personal protective equipment. (c) Contractors must address hazards when selecting or purchasing equipment, products, and services. (a) Contractors must comply with the following safety and health standards that are applicable to the hazards at their covered workplace: (1) Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 850, “Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program.” (2) Title 29 CFR, Parts 1904.4 through 1904.11, 1904.29 through 1904.33; 1904.44, and 1904.46, “Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.” (3) Title 29 CFR, Part 1910, “Occupational Safety and Health Standards,” excluding 29 CFR 1910.1096, “Ionizing Radiation.” (4) Title 29 CFR, Part 1915, “Shipyard Employment.” (5) Title 29 CFR, Part 1917, “Marine Terminals.” (6) Title 29 CFR, Part 1918, “Safety and Health Regulations for Longshoring.” (7) Title 29 CFR, Part 1926, “Safety and Health Regulations for Construction.” (8) Title 29 CFR, Part 1928, “Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Agriculture.” (9) American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), “Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices,” (2005) (incorporated by reference, see §851.27) when the ACGIH Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) are lower (more protective) than permissible exposure limits in 29 CFR 1910. When the ACGIH TLVs are used as exposure limits, contractors must nonetheless comply with the other provisions of any applicable expanded health standard found in 29 CFR 1910. (10) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z88.2, “American National Standard for Respiratory Protection,” (1992) (incorporated by reference, see §851.27). (11) ANSI Z136.1, “Safe Use of Lasers,” (2000) (incorporated by reference, see §851.27). (12) ANSI Z49.1, “Safety in Welding, Cutting and Allied Processes,” sections 4.3 and E4.3 (1999) (incorporated by reference, see §851.27). (13) National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70, “National Electrical Code,” (2005) (incorporated by reference, see §851.27). (14) NFPA 70E, “Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace,” (2004) (incorporated by reference, see §851.27). (b) Nothing in this part must be construed as relieving a contractor from complying with any additional specific safety and health requirement that it determines to be necessary to protect the safety and health of workers. (a) Contractors must have a structured approach to their worker safety and health program which at a minimum, include provisions for the following applicable functional areas in their worker safety and health program: construction safety; fire protection; firearms safety; explosives safety; pressure safety; electrical safety; industrial hygiene; occupational medicine; biological safety; and motor vehicle safety. (b) In implementing the structured approach required by paragraph (a) of this section, contractors must comply with the applicable standards and provisions in Appendix A of this part, entitled “Worker Safety and Health Functional Areas.” (a) Contractors must develop and implement a worker safety and health training and information program to ensure that all workers exposed or potentially exposed to hazards are provided with the training and information on that hazard in order to perform their duties in a safe and healthful manner. (b) The contractor must provide: (1) Training and information for new workers, before or at the time of initial assignment to a job involving exposure to a hazard; (2) Periodic training as often as necessary to ensure that workers are adequately trained and informed; and (3) Additional training when safety and health information or a change in workplace conditions indicates that a new or increased hazard exists. (c) Contractors must provide training and information to workers who have worker safety and health program responsibilities that is necessary for them to carry out those responsibilities. (a) Recordkeeping. Contractors must: (1) Establish and maintain complete and accurate records of all hazard inventory information, hazard assessments, exposure measurements, and exposure controls. (2) Ensure that the work-related injuries and illnesses of its workers and subcontractor workers are recorded and reported accurately and consistent with DOE Manual 231.1–1A, Environment, Safety and Health Reporting Manual, September 9, 2004 (incorporated by reference, see §851.27). (3) Comply with the applicable occupational injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting workplace safety and health standards in §851.23 at their site, unless otherwise directed in DOE Manual 231.1–1A. (4) Not conceal nor destroy any information concerning non-compliance or potential noncompliance with the requirements of this part. (b) Reporting and investigation. Contractors must: (1) Report and investigate accidents, injuries and illness; and (2) Analyze related data for trends and lessons learned (reference DOE Order 225.1A, Accident Investigations, November 26, 1997). (a) Materials incorporated by reference. (1) General. The following standards which are not otherwise set forth in part 851 are incorporated by reference and made a part of part 851. The standards listed in this section have been approved for incorporation by reference by the Director of the Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. (2) Availability of standards. The standards incorporated by reference are available for inspection at: (i) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For more information on the availability of this material at NARA, call 202–741–6030, or go to: http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ibr_locations.php (ii) U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environment, Safety and Health, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585. (iii) American National Standards Institute Headquarters, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036. Telephone number: 212–642–4980, or go to: http://www.ansi.org. (iv) National Fire Protection Association, 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169. Telephone: 617 770–3000, or go to: http://www.nfpa.org. (v) American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist (ACGIH), 1330 Kemper Meadow Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45240. Telephone number 513–742–2020, or go to: http://www.acgih.org. (vi) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), P.O. Box 2300 Fairfield, NJ 07007. Telephone: 800–843–2763, or got to: http://www.asme.org. (b) List of standards incorporated by reference. (1) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z88.2, “American National Standard for Respiratory Protection,” (1992). (2) ANSI Z136.1, “Safe Use of Lasers,” (2000). (3) ANSI Z49.1, “Safety in Welding, Cutting and Allied Processes,” sections 4.3 and E4.3, (1999). (4) National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70, “National Electrical Code,” (2005). (5) NFPA 70E, “Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace,” (2004). (6) American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, “Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices,” (2005). (7) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boilers and Pressure Vessel Code, sections I through XII including applicable Code Cases, (2004). (8) ASME B31 (ASME Code for Pressure Piping) as follows: (i) B31.1—2001—Power Piping, and B31.1a—2002—Addenda to ASME B31.1—2001; (ii) B31.2—1968—Fuel Gas Piping; (iii) B31.3—2002—Process Piping; (iv) B31.4—2002—Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids; (v) B31.5—2001—Refrigeration Piping and Heat Transfer Components, and B31.5a—2004, Addenda to ASME B31.5—2001; (vi) B31.8—2003—Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems; (vii) B31.8S—2001—Managing System Integrity of Gas Pipelines; (viii) B31.9—1996—Building Services Piping; (ix) B31.11—2002—Slurry Transportation Piping Systems; and (x) B31G—1991—Manual for Determining Remaining Strength of Corroded Pipelines. (9) DOE Manual 231.1–1A, Environment, Safety and Health Reporting Manual, September 9, 2004. (10) DOE Manual 440.1–1A, DOE Explosives Safety Manual, Contractor Requirements Document (Attachment 2), January 9, 2006.
Title 10: Energy
PART 851—WORKER SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAM
Subpart C—Specific Program Requirements
§ 851.20 Management responsibilities and worker rights and responsibilities.
§ 851.21 Hazard identification and assessment.
§ 851.22 Hazard prevention and abatement.
§ 851.23 Safety and health standards.
§ 851.24 Functional areas.
§ 851.25 Training and information.
§ 851.26 Recordkeeping and reporting.
§ 851.27 Reference sources.
