1. ANL SAFETY POLICY

As a Department of Energy (DOE) facility, Argonne National Laboratory, complies with the DOE's worker protection program, which, in brief, stipulates that everyone here has a right to a safe place to work. While Argonne and your host user facility have the obligation to establish and enforce safe work practices, you share this responsibility. At Argonne , safety is considered to be EVERYONE'S responsibility. As such, it plays an integral role in the planning, review, and execution of all activities, including your work here. Although the primary mission of the Laboratory is scientific/technical research, The Department of Energy, the University of Chicago , Argonne and your host management put safety as the highest priority. The Laboratory Director has stated, "No work we do is so important that it need be done without proper safety measures".

The framework used by Argonne for all of our work is called Integrated Safety Management or ISM. ISM calls for us to define the work, identify all hazards, develop and implement hazard controls, work within these controls, and provide feedback to improve safety in future work

By working within this framework, your work here should be planned and performed in a safe manner. Each user facility has a specific experiment or work authorization process based on ISM. You are expected to follow this process.