The objective of Integrated Safety Management (ISM) is to integrate safety into management and work practices at all levels, addressing all types of work and all types of hazards to ensure safety for workers, the public, and the environment. To achieve this objective, DOE has established guiding principles and core safety management functions. 

An effective ISMS considers site-specific factors, conditions, analyses, and processes, including:

The types of potentially hazardous work at the site, including but not limited to operations, maintenance, construction, decontamination and decommissioning, laboratory activities, and research and development. 

Results of design and conceptual studies, environmental analyses, safety analyses, hazard reduction analyses, pollution prevention/waste minimization, and risk analyses. 

All types of hazards at the site, including chemical, physical, biological, ergonomic, environmental, nuclear, and transportation.

A Construction Project Safety and Health Plan is prepared prior to construction activities per 10 CFR Part 851, Appendix A, Section 1(d).

An ISMS must be in place to ensure that potential hazards are identified and appropriately addressed throughout the project. It will be used to systematically integrate safety into management and work processes at all levels. The project management team will implement the following guiding principles:

• Line management responsibility for safety

• Clear roles and responsibilities

• Competence commensurate with responsibilities

• Balanced priorities

• Engineered controls tailored to the functions being designed or performed

• Tailoring should be applied to a project's ISMS to enable tasks to be managed at the appropriate levels enabling those closest to the task plan to assume responsibility for planning and performance