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Summary of the Core Roles for:
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- Citizen Committees [pdf]

Chapter 31: Institutional ES&H Committees

Overview (1.0)

This chapter describes the roles, responsibilities, and action thresholds of the following committees related to environment, safety, and health (ES&H):

• ES&H Coordinating Council (ES&HCC)
• Safety Overview Committee (SOC)
• Citizen committees (CC)
• Operating Safety Committee (OSC)
• Local Safety Committee (LSC)

For additional information on these committees and related organizational roles, see chapters 1, General Policy, and 2, Work Authorization, of this ES&H Manual and the SLAC Integrated Safety and Environmental Management System Description.

Scope

This chapter applies to those SLAC employees assigned to chair or sit on any of these committees. It also applies laboratory-wide to those managers and employees who must bring proposals before a committee for review or approval. Those proposals can be for

• New ES&H requirements
• Significant or major new activities:
• Programs or projects
• Experiments
• Test beams
• Facility construction
• Facility modifications

Implementation

The requirements of this chapter are effective upon publication (July 28, 2006) unless otherwise noted here.