Integrated Safety Management and Work Smart Standards

Abstract

Abstract The Department of Energy developed the Work Smart Standards (WSS) concept to provide a work-centered approach for tailored sets of standards to promote improvements in environment, safety and health. As a number of DOE sites were applying the Work Smart approach, the Department also issued requirements for DOE contractors to develop Integrated Safety Management (ISM) Systems. This paper describes how WSS and ISM together are resulting in emerging new understandings about Doing Work Safely. Suggestions are also provided for new ways in which WSS concepts can be applied to implement ISM requirements.