Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality

Associate Laboratory Directorate of Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality

The Associate Laboratory Directorate of Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality (ALDESHQ) provides mission enabling services by protecting people, resources, and the environment. ALDESHQ consists of 5 divisions, the Program Office and the Integration Office.

Institutional Quality & Performance Assurance (IQPA)
Institutional Quality and Performance Assurance’s mission is to provide integrated expert services for operational excellence, driving continuous improvement in support of the Laboratory mission. The assurance programs promote risk-based decision making, performance improvement, and organizational learning in achieving strategic goals.
Occupational Health
Occupational Health is an innovative leader within the DOE complex in promoting and maintaining a healthy, safe, and productive workforce that focuses on the right work and the right processes to create the right Laboratory.
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)
Occupational Safety and Health facilitates mission success by ensuring employee health and regulatory compliance by providing support and monitoring performance. Safety and industrial hygiene experts, support personnel, and medical professionals ensure the safety of employees in potentially hazardous conditions.
Radiation Protection (RP)
Radiation Protection provides expertise, capabilities, services, support, and oversight to help enable the Laboratory’s programmatic missions. We help ensure the Lab’s radiological work is safe for the worker, and to help maintain the Laboratory’s Radiation Protection Program’s compliance with regulations.
Environment and Waste Programs (EWP)
Environment and Waste Programs (EWP) includes Environmental Protection and Compliance Division, Waste Management Division, Repository Science and Operations Divisions in ESHQ and Nuclear Process Infrastructure Division within Weapons Production. The divisions work together to provide a compliance framework that enables field execution focused on safe, compliant execution of mission delivery. The breadth of the work ranges from site stewardship, cultural and biological assessments, air and water quality operational permits and monitoring, waste management of all types of waste and the specialty services provided to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
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ESHQ Program & Integration Offices
The ESHQ Program Office collaborates across organizations and programs to enhance culture, promote wellbeing, and improve safety performance. Programs include Integrated Safety Management (ISM), SCoR in Action, Traffic & Pedestrian Safety (TPS), Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), and Employee Wellbeing. The ESHQ Integration Office facilitates the delivery of integrated, effective technical support, services, and communication for the ESHQ portfolio that includes safety, industrial hygiene, radiation protection, environmental compliance, waste management, quality, safeguards and security to achieve simultaneous excellence.