GSFC STD 8715.1.pdf

GODDARD TECHNICAL

STANDARD

GSFC-STD-8715.1A

Goddard Space Flight Center Approved: 06-13-2019 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Revalidation Date: 06-13-2024

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Explosive Safety Program

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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Explosive Safety Program

Approved By:

Steve Scott Chief Engineer Goddard Space Flight Center

Dave Mitchell Director of Flight Projects

Eric Isaac Director of Safety and Mission Assurance

Felicia Jones Director of Applied Engineering and Technology

Dave Pierce Director of Wallops Flight Facility

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

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DOCUMENT HISTORY LOG

Status Document Revision

Approval Date Description

Baseline - 06-13-2016 Initial Release

Administrative Changes

07-17-2017 Changed Ordnance Training & Certification Committee citation to a reference for GPR 8715.11 where full description of the ordnance certification process is defined.

A Full document update to reflect changes in latest revision of NASA- STD 8719.12. Also consolidated applicable sections of GPR 8715.10 and 8715.11 into this standard to streamline overall documentation.

06-13-2019

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FOREWORD

This standard is published by the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to provide uniform engineering and technical requirements for processes, procedures, practices, and methods that have been endorsed as standard for NASA programs and projects, including requirements for selection, application, and design criteria of an item.

This standard establishes the requirements for implementing the Explosive Safety Program for GSFC including the component facilities which comply with 29 CFR 1910.109, Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Explosives and Blasting Agents as supplemented by NASA- STD-8719.12, Safety Standards for Explosives, Propellants, and Pyrotechnics. It defines the Explosive Safety Program process for applicable work performed at GSFC and other sites designated for GSFC approved programs and projects.

Requests for information, corrections, or additions to this standard should be submitted via “Contact Us” on the GSFC Technical Standards website at http://standards.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Josef A. Wonsever Technical Standard Coordinator

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DOCUMENT HISTORY LOG

FOREWORD

1. SCOPE

1.1. Purpose

1.2. Applicability

2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

2.1. General

2.2. Government Documents

2.3. Non-Government Documents

2.4. Order of Precedence

3. ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS

3.1. Acronyms and Abbreviations

3.2. Definitions

4. REQUIREMENTS

4.1. Equivalency

4.2. Process Safety Management

4.3. Audits

4.4. Minimum Use of Explosives

4.5. Personnel Limits

4.5.1. Establishing Personnel Limits - Explosive Site Plan

4.5.2. Establishing Personnel Limits - Explosives Facility License

4.6. Explosive Area Placarding

4.7. Item Labeling

4.7.1. Declaring Used, Expended, or Fired Articles as Inert

4.7.2. Labeling of Used, Expended, or Fired Articles as Inert

4.8. ESO Responsibility

4.9. ESO and Explosives Handlers Training and Qualifications

4.9.1. Explosive Handler Certification Classifications

4.9.2. Explosive Handler Certification Limitations

4.9.3. General Explosive Handler Certification Requirements

4.9.4. Explosive Handler Certification Approval Process

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4.9.5. In-Training Status

4.9.6. Certification Extensions

4.9.7. Exemption from Training and Qualification Requirements

4.9.8. Training Activities Involving Explosives

4.9.9. Explosive Detection Dog Training

4.10. Preparing and Controlling Procedures for Explosives Operations

4.11. Facility Construction

4.11.1. Additional Technical References and Analysis Tools

4.11.2. Facility Design and Modification Review

4.12. Explosives Site Plans and Explosives Facility Licenses

4.12.1. Explosive Site Plans

4.12.2. Explosives Facility Licenses

4.12.3. Process Hazard Analysis

4.12.4. Risk-Based Explosive Siting

4.12.5. Sites Exclusively Storing Small Arms Ammunition

4.12.6. Sites Exclusively Storing Model Rocket Motors

4.12.7. Host Coordination

4.12.8. Tenant Coordination

4.12.9. Minimum Review and Renewal Periods

4.13. Explosives Waste Requirements

4.13.1. General Guidance

4.13.2. Unexploded Ordnance Guidance at Wallops Flight Facility

4.13.3. Used or Fired Military Munitions

4.14. Fire Protection Criteria

4.14.1. Fire Protection Requirements

4.14.2. Fire Extinguishers in Explosive Areas

4.15. Display of Fire, Chemical and/or Apply No Water Symbols

4.15.1. Type of Firefighting Symbols by GSFC Location

4.15.2. Posting Requirements for Firefighting Symbols

4.16. Vegetation Control

4.17. Motor Vehicle Safety Requirements

4.17.1. Applicability

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4.17.2. Exceptions

4.17.3. Equivalency

4.17.4. Program Responsibilities

4.18. Grounding and Bonding

4.19. Lightning Protection

4.20. Explosives in Process during Electrical Storms

4.20.1. Locations under WFF Safety Office Oversight

4.20.2. Locations not under WFF Safety Office Oversight

4.21. Static Electricity and Control of ESD

4.22. Laboratory Testing of Explosives

4.22.1. R&D Manufactured Items

4.22.2. Hazard Classification Testing for a Competent Authority

4.22.3. In-Process Hazard Classification of Explosives

4.23. Concurrent Explosives Operations

4.24. Housekeeping

4.25. RF Transmissions

4.25.1. Overview

4.25.2. HERO Susceptibility

4.25.3. General HERO Requirements

4.25.4. Traditional Fixed-Location and Mobile Emitters Requirements

4.25.5. Modern Mobile Emitters Requirements

4.25.6. Other Electromagnetic Radiation Emitter Requirements

4.25.7. Flight Vehicle On-board Emitters

4.26. Clothing

4.27. Heat Conditioning of Explosives Equipment

4.28. Classification System

4.28.1. Hazard Classification – Packaged

4.28.2. Hazard Classification – Unpackaged

4.28.3. Explosives that Do Not Ship as Explosives

4.29. Quantity of Explosives and Distances

4.29.1. Equivalent Weight Requirements for Propellants

4.29.2. Personnel Safe Separation Distances

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4.30. Hazard Divisions and QD Tables

4.30.1. Center Boundary Encroachment

4.30.2. QD Table for Open Burning of Explosives

4.31. Refueling Procedures

4.32. Storage of Powered Equipment

5. GUIDANCE

5.1. Reference Documents

5.2. Key Word Listing

Appendix A: Calculating HERO Safe Separation Distances

A.1. Maximum Allowable Environment

A.2. Near- and Far-Field Regions

A.3. Traditional Fixed-Location and Mobile Emitters

A.3.1. HERO SAFE Ordnance

A.3.2. HERO UNSAFE Ordnance

A.3.3. HERO SUSCEPTIBLE Ordnance

A.3.4. Considerations for Multi-Band Emitters

A.3.5. Application of Average vs. Peak Emitter Power

A.4. Multiple Traditional Fixed-Location and Mobile Emitters

A.5. Minimum Safe Separation Distance Exceptions

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GSFC Explosive Safety Program

1. SCOPE

1.1. Purpose

The purpose of this standard is to define procedures required for the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Explosive Safety Program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.109, Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Explosives and Blasting Agents, as supplemented by NASA-STD-8719.12, Safety Standard for Explosives, Propellants, and Pyrotechnics, specifically applied to locations under the influence of GSFC.

1.2. Applicability

This standard is applicable to all GSFC facilities, including Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), Independent Verification and Validation Facility (IV&V), Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF), Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR), and other sites designated for GSFC approved programs and projects.

This standard may be cited in contract, program, and other Agency documents as a technical requirement. Mandatory requirements are indicated by the word “shall.” Tailoring of this standard for application to a specific program or project shall be approved by the Technical Authority for that program or project.

2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

2.1. General

The documents listed in this section contain provisions that constitute requirements of this standard as cited in the text of section 4. These documents are in additional to those already identified in NASA-STD-8719.12. The latest issuances of cited documents shall be used unless otherwise approved by the assigned Technical Authority. The applicable documents are accessible via the NASA Technical Standards System at http://standards.nasa.gov, directly from the Standards Developing Organizations, or from other document distributors.

2.2. Government Documents

29 CFR 1910.157 OSHA Standards for Portable Fire Extinguishers 40 CFR 265.382 EPA Open Burning; Waste Explosives 40 CFR 266.202 EPA Definition of Solid Waste 47 CFR Part 15 Radio Frequency Devices 47 CFR 15.231 Periodic operation in the band 40.66-40.70 MHz and above

70 MHz 49 CFR 172 Subpart F DoT Placarding Requirements

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49 CFR 173.56 DoT New Explosives - Definition and Procedures for Classification and Approval

800-WI-8715.2.1 Wallops Flight Facility Severe Weather Notification AFI 91-208 USAF Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance

Certification and Management DEF 149-30-01 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Definitive Drawings for Barricades DESR 6055.09 Defense Explosives Safety Regulation GPR 8500.3 Waste Management GPR 8715.5 Fire Protection at GSFC MIL-C-43122 Military Specification for Cloth, Sateen, Cotton, Flame Retardant

Treated MIL-HDBK-240 Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance Test Guide MIL-STD-464 Electromagnetic Environmental Effects Requirements for Systems NASA-STD-8719.11 NASA Safety Standard for Fire Protection NPR 1600.1 NASA Security Program Procedural Requirements NPR 1620.3 Physical Security Requirements for NASA Facilities and Property NPR 1800.1 NASA Occupational Health Program Procedure NPR 8621.1 NASA Procedural Requirements for Mishap and Close Call

Reporting, Investigating, and Recordkeeping NPR 8715.3 NASA General Safety Program Requirements TB 700-2 Joint Tech Bulletin Ammunition and Explosives Hazard

Classification Procedures Technical Paper 16 Department of Defense (DoD) Explosives Safety Board (DDESB)

Methodologies for Calculating Primary Fragment Characteristics Technical Paper 17 DDESB Blast Effects Computer User’s Manual and

Documentation UFC 3-340-02 DoD Unified Facilities Criteria for Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions WFF-UXO-02/09/2018 UXO/MEC Response Plan

2.3. Non-Government Documents

ETUG-GS01-15 Explosive Testing Users Group Standard for In-Process Hazard

Classification of Explosives NFPA 1 Fire Code NFPA 495 Explosive Materials Code NFPA 704 Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response NPFA 780 Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems NFPA 1122 Code for Model Rocketry NFPA 1125 Code for the Manufacture of Model Rocket and High-Power

Rocket Motors NFPA 1127 Code for High Power Rocketry ST/SG/AC.10/11 United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous

Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria

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2.4. Order of Precedence

When this standard is applied as a requirement or imposed by contract on a program or project, the technical requirements of this standard take precedence, in the case of conflict, over the technical requirements cited in applicable documents or referenced guidance documents.

3. ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS

Acronyms will only be listed in this section if defined in this standard. The acronyms used in this standard are intended to be common industry terms and recognizable by users. In some cases, GSFC specific acronyms are used to identify Center unique hardware, software, and/or support systems. Definitions that are defined in referenced documents are not repeated in this standard unless a GSFC specific application is highlighted. GSFC specific definitions may also be listed to elaborate on Center unique concepts, organizations, individuals, and/or systems.

3.1. Acronyms and Abbreviations

CBE Certification-by-Equivalency CERT Certified CNG Compressed Natural Gas CONUS Continental United States CSBF Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility DDESB Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board DoD Department of Defense DoT United States Department of Transportation E Electric Field Strength Ef Expected Fatalities E3 Electromagnetic Environmental Effects EELP Explosives, Energetic Liquids, and Pyrotechnics Ef Expected Fatalities EID Electrically Initiated Device EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power EME Electromagnetic Environment EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal EPA Environmental Protection Agency ES Exposed Site ESO Explosive Safety Officer ETUG Explosives Testing Users Group f Frequency FCC Federal Communications Commission FOM Facility Operations Manager GHS Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center HD Hazard Division HERO Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance

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