EFCOG/DOE CHEMICAL SAFETY ISSUES WORKSHOP 

This Chemical Safety Issues Workshop is being brought to you by the Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG)/Safety Analysis Working Group and the DOE Office of Worker Health and Safety's Chemical Safety Team, EH-5. It is being hosted by DOE-Albuquerque (DOE-AL) and Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and held at the Energy Training Complex at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Chemical Safety Issues Workshop brings together contractor and DOE line managers responsible for chemical safety, safety professionals and appropriate representatives from DOE Headquarters, Operations Offices and Field Offices to identify their common chemical safety needs and issues and explore ways to resolve them. The workshop will catalyze the formation of a DOE/contractor Chemical Safety Interest Group (CSIG) that will work with the newly-formed EFCOG Chemical Safety Subgroup and other interested individuals and groups to promote long-term, complex-wide communication and cooperation among the sites so that they may achieve excellence in chemical safety performance.

The goals of the workshop include:

1. Establish a DOE/Contractors Chemical Safety Interest Group

2. Identify DOE/Contractor chemical safety needs and concerns

3. Form working groups that will rank the issues identified and take action to resolve the priority issues

4. Share successes and lessons learned and best practices

5. Enhance chemical safety programs across the DOE

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Day 1. Tuesday, November 3, 1998

8:00 - 9:30

Opening Session Presentations

   
  8:00 - 8:15 Welcome/Opening Remarks
    Ken Murphy, DOE/EH-52
    Jerry Hansen, EFCOG/WSMS-SRS
    Tom Blejwas, SNL
     
  8:15 - 9:00 DOE Management Perspectives
    Bruce Twining, DOE-AL
    Joe Fitzgerald, EH-5
   

Gene Runkle, DOE-AL

     
  9:00 - 9:30 Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board Perspectives
    Joe DiNunno, Board Member
     
9:30 - 9:45

Coffee Break

   
9:45 - 10:00

Introduction to Workshop Organization and Expectations

  Doug Heal, (WSMS-Oak Ridge)
 

Ken Murphy, (DOE/EH-52)

     
10:00 - 10:45 Special Presentation:
    "Industry Perspectives on Chemical Safety: Using Limited Resources to Tackle Big Issues"
  Bob Perry, Staff Consultant, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
     
10:45 - 11:30 Special Presentation:
    "Chemical Safety and Responsible Care -- How Are We Doing?"
    Robert Coffield, Technical Adviser, Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA)
     
11:30 - 1:00 LUNCH
     
1:00-2:30

Plenary Session: Introduction to Identified Chemical Safety Issues and "Kick-Off" Presentations for each Break-out Session

     
  1:00-1:15

Moderator: Ken Murphy

     
  1:15-1:30 Issue 1. "Chemical Safety as a Part of ISM"
    session chair: Eric Shogren, (WSMS)
    facilitator: Lori Ramonas (PNNL)
    scribe: David Seidel (LANL)
    speaker: Eric Shogren
     
  1:30-1:45 Issue 2. "Chemical Safety Issues During Facility Transition"
    session chair: Jerry Hansen, (WSMS)
    facilitator: Pam Poco, (LLNL)
    scribe: John Serocki , (DOE/EM-37)
    speakers: Jerry Hansen
     
  1:45-2:00 Issue 3. "Chemical Safety in Laboratories"
    session chair: John Piatt, (PNNL)
    facilitator: Doug Heal
   

scribe: Sharon Dossett, (PNNL)

    speakers: Monty Rosbach, (PNNL); Ron Reif, (BNL)
     
  2:00-2:15 Issue 4. "Access to Chemical Safety and Lessons Learned Information"
    session chair: Nancy Freshour, (SNL)
    facilitator: Nancy Freshour, and Chui Fan Cheng, (SNL)
    scribe: Carolyn Quinn, (SNL)
    speakers: George Schlossnagle, (DOE/EH-52) Meredith Brown, (LANL)
     
  2:15 - 2:30 Issue 5. "Chemical Safety in Work Planning"
    session chair: Dave Anglen, (DOE-AL/KAO)
    facilitator: Dave Anglen
    scribe: William Westendorf, (Link Technologies)
    speakers: Billy Lee, (DOE/EH-52)
     
2:30 - 5:00 Concurrent Breakout Sessions Identify and Discuss Issues and Priorities for Action by a CSIG Workgroup
     
     
Day 2. Wednesday, November 4, 1998
     
8:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session: Reports from Breakout Session Teams on Issues 1-5 and Open Forum -- "In light of some related chemical safety issues you have at your site, what priority action workgroups should be established that you would sign onto as a contributing member?"
  Moderators: Doug Heal, (WSMS - Oak Ridge) and Ken Murphy, (DOE/EH-52)
     
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
     
10:30 - 11:00 Special Presentations:
   

"Some Recent EFCOG Accomplishments: Reports from APAC Chemical Dispersion and Consequence Assessment Subgroup; the SAWG PSM Subgroup and the Non-nuclear Hazards Subgroup"

    Speakers: Douglas Craig, (WSMS - SRS)
    Doug Heal,
    Ingle Paik, (WSMS - SRS)
     
11:00- 12:00 Special Presentation:
   

APRF Accident and Complex-Wide Follow-up@

    Speakers: Shivaji Seth, (DOE-RL)
    Ken Murphy, (DOE/EH-52)
     
12:00 - 1:15 LUNCH
     
1:15 - 2:30 Plenary Session: Introduction to Identified Chemical Safety Issues and "Kick-Off" Presentations for each Break-out Session
    Moderator: Doug Heal
     
  1:15-1:30 Issue 6. "Common Threads and Lessons Learned in Recent Chemical Occurrences and Identified Vulnerabilities"
    session chair: John Hoffmeister (OR)
    facilitator: Doug Heal
    scribe: Eric Shogren
    speaker: Shivaji Seth
     
  1:30-1:45 Issue 7. "Chemical Reactivity and Incompatibilities"
    session chair: David Quigley, (LMTCo, Idaho) -- facilitator: David Quigley
    scribe: Vickie Wheeler, (SRS)
    speaker: Billy Lee
     
  1:45-2:00 Issue 8. "Integrating Chemical and Nuclear Safety"
    session chair: Ingle Paik, (WSMS - SR)
    facilitator: Michelle Johnson, (JBFA)
    scribe: Debbie Johnson (INEEL)
    speaker: Gary Hagan (OR)
     
  2:00 - 2:15 Issue 9. "A Roadmap of Requirements for Chemical Safety"
    session chair: John Piatt
    facilitator: Pamela Sutherland, (Battelle, Columbus)
    scribe: William Westendorf
    speakers: Gail Kleiner, (DOE/EH-52) and Andrew Vincent, (WSRC)
     
  2:15-2:30 Issue 10. "Chemical Life Cycle Management and Best Practices"
    session chair: Barbara Hargis, (LANL)
    facilitator: Sue Morss, (DOE/ANL)
   

scribe: George Schlossnagle

    speaker: William Adair, (Fluor Daniels Hanford)
     
2:30 - 5:00 Concurrent Breakout Sessions Meet to Identify and Discuss Candidate Issues for Action by a CSIG Workgroup
   
     
Day 3. Thursday, November 5, 1998
     
8:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session: Reports from Breakout Session Teams on Issues 6-10 and Open Forum -- "In light of some related chemical safety issues you have at your site, what priority action workgroups should be established that you would sign onto as contributing members ?"
    Moderators: Doug Heal and Ken Murphy
     
10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

     
10:30 - 11:50

Selection of Priority Issues for Immediate Action; Discussion of CSIG Draft Charter; Formation of Work Teams; and Path Forward

  Doug Heal
 

Ken Murphy

     
11:50-12:00 Closing Remarks/Adjourn
  Gene Runkle (DOE-AL)
     
     

NOTES:

 
  (1) See the attached paper, "Topical Highlights" for a brief synopsis of each of the issues identified in this Agenda for discussion during the concurrent break-out sessions.
   
  (2) At the end of this Chemical Safety Issues Workshop, the Chemical Safety Interest Group (CSIG) and the EFCOG Chemical Safety Subgroup will be established along with ad hoc working groups that will champion the priority issues and pursue their solutions for report-out in the June/July, 1999 timeframe.