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Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Table 6 Table 7 Table 8 Table 9 Table 10 Table 11 Table 12 Table 13 Table 14 Table 15 WI EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) is an interactive computer system designed to support DOE-owned or -operated facilities in reporting and processing information concerning occurrences related to facility operations. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been charged by the DOE National Transportation Program Albuquerque (NTPA) with the responsibility of retrieving reports and idormation pertaining to packaging and transportation (P&T) incidents from the centralized ORPS database. These selected reports are analyzed for trends, impact on P&T operations and safety concerns, and "lessons learned" in P&T safety.To support this analysis and trending the Safety Metrics Indicator Program (SMIP) was established by the NTPA in FY 1998. Its chief goal is to augment historical reporting of occurrence-based iniiormation by providing (1) management notification of those incidents that require attention; (2) DOE with a more accurate picture of contractors' P&T-related peflormances; and (3) more meaniry$d statistics for comparison of occurrences at a particular site, among different contractor sites, and between DOE and the private sector. To this end, the SMIP supports the establishment of a severity weighting system for classification of the occurrences and normalization of the data for standardization and trending. This initiative is part of the NTPA's effort to develop a methodology for reporting occurrences with appropriate metrics to show rates and trends.This report establishes and discusses SMIP'S methodology for classi@g, severity weighting, and providing indicators for P&T occurrences. Three top-level measures are used for defining the indicators for occurrences involving hazardous material: (1) the hazard significance rating (HSR), (2) the repetitive significance factor (RSF), and (3) the stakeholder and publicity significance factor (SPR). These measures allow an objective assessment of occurrence reports, giving consistency and a basis for comparing the severity of one occurrence with another.The measure HSR is intended to indicate the actual risk posed by an occurrence. It is a weighted measure of the hazard significance of the occurrence fi-ornthe standpoint of personnel, public stiety, and environmental impact. The measure RSF is then applied to HSR to indicate whether the occurrence has a history of repetitiveness. This combination of HSR and RSF can be used by the NTPA to identi~specific areas needing special attention or for which the development of a specific lessons-learned statement is warranted. The measure SPR is independent of HSR and RSF and is used to identifi the level of significance of the occu~ence from a stakeholder and publicity perspective.P&T-related incidents that occur in preparing for transport, during transport, or during unloading of hazardous materials will be cla...

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