Risk management in facility transition and management decision making: Needs and opportunities

Conference · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6486397

Stillwell, W; Seaver, D; Keller, J ^[1]; Smith, D ^[2]; Weaver, D; Sanders, T ^[3]; Thullen, P ^[4]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
2. USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
3. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
4. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

An overall approach to risk management is described in this paper. Many of these concepts have been developed and applied as part of Hanford Mission Planning (HMP) (Hanford Mission Plan, 1992). At Hanford, HMP provides a mechanism for integrating planning across all the missions and programs of the site. This paper discusses the decision context within which EM must make and defend decisions, the types of decisions that are being and will need to be made in order to progress with the cleanup of the DOE complex, and the resulting need for risk management. Risk management, in turn, requires quality health and ecological risk information to make these decisions. Other types of information are also needed, but the risk information is typically the most important and the most difficult to obtain. The paper then describes a general technical approach to risk management, including particular methods for developing the high quality of human health and ecological risk information that will be needed to support risk management. We next turn to several special issues that make risk management more complex than many other decisions. We discuss these issues and offer some practical suggestions with respect to addressing them in the risk management framework. Finally, we conclude with some discussion of other opportunities for applying risk management.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6486397
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-22047; CONF-930205--42; ON: DE93009813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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