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To print a copy of the signed SLAC ES&H Policy please use the PDF version .
This is a
Director's Office Initiative document.
See the Director's
SLAC Today article about the Policy.
SLAC Environment, Safety, and Health Policy
SLAC is committed to protecting the health and safety of
on-site personnel, the public, and the environment as it carries
out its scientific mission. Each of the laboratory’s
directorates is responsible for implementing the Environment,
Safety and Health (ES&H) Program through line management. In
addition, management at all levels is expected to ensure that
all employees understand the content and importance of this ES&H
Policy. In turn, employees are responsible for integrating ES&H
considerations into their own work activities. The SLAC Director
has ultimate responsibility for ES&H at the laboratory.
Through employee and management involvement SLAC will:
- Use our Integrated Safety and Environmental Management
System to protect human health and the environment through
- Defining the scope of work
- Identifying and analyzing the hazards
- Developing and implementing hazard controls
- Performing work safely
- Soliciting and using feedback for continuous
improvement
- Seek to maintain a healthful and safe workplace, free of
recognized hazards and occupational injury and illness
- Wisely use and conserve natural resources and conduct
our activities in a sustainable manner
- Conduct operations such that the production of
radioactive materials and exposure to radiation is
maintained as low as reasonably achievable
- Integrate environment, pollution prevention, safety,
health and quality into project planning, design,
construction, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning
of facilities
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations,
and best management practices
- Put policies, programs and professional ES&H staff in
place to ensure line management can carry out their
responsibility for ES&H implementation
Workers have the authority and responsibility to stop, or not
perform, any task when there is a reasonable belief that the
task poses imminent risk of death or serious injury. In such a
case, the workers must report this to their supervisor
immediately.
SLAC recognizes the need to learn from successes and
deviations from expected outcomes, and encourages workers to
both report these instances and provide feedback. This is an
essential part of our continuous improvement.
Signed ____________________________
Persis S. Drell, SLAC Director
(A copy of the signed ESH Policy
[pdf] is in pdf printable format, and can be used as posters in
your work area.)
Environmental, Safety and Health Policy at SLAC
SLAC-I-720-0A00B-003-R001
June 9, 2008
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