Action Team

Shortly before 11 o clock, an emergency action team of the Air Force Strategic Air... 

Providing direct services local Disaster Action Teams (DATs), responding to national disasters, chapter health reviewer, volunteering in military clinics and hospitals, blood collection team, first aid stations... 

The toxicity associated with SM is quite profound. The Army s Chemical Defense Equipment Process Action Team estimated in 1994 that a 900 mg-min/m SM vapor exposure would be lethal in 2-10 min, based on animal studies (National Research Council Review, 1997). Fortunately, in the battlefield, lethality has been limited. Only 1-3% of exposed soldiers died from SM exposure after WWI, and mortality mostly was not a direct consequence of SM, but rather the indirect effect of secondary respiratory infections. The 1999 Material Safety Data Sheet, put out by the US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, USA Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, has estimated the LD50 of a skin exposure to sullur mustard as lOOmg/kg. This roughly translates into as little as 7 ml of neat SM (i.e. 8.9 g) spread over the skin resulting in the death of a 80 kg adult (Department of the Army, MSDS, 1999). The cornea, of course, is more sensitive than the skin. Below we review three chief toxic effects of severe SM exposure to the cornea. 

On 15 April 1991 the Director General created an Action Team to implement Resolution 687 specifically to pursue the identification and elimination of activities in Iraq aimed at the acquisition of nuclear weapon capability and the ongoing monitoring and verification of Iraq to ensure no resumption of a nuclear weapons programme (Zifferero, 1994). 

More than 500 environmental or smear samples and nearly 600 nuclear material samples from the 15 Action Team inspections in 1991 and 1992 were analysed at IAEA Laboratories in Seibersdorf. 

At Tuwaitha and Tarmiya the amount of was successfully separated by isotope separators called calutrons. The Action Team was shown parts of the isotope separators that had been dismantled, destroyed, and buried in an attempt to conceal this program. A few parts from the ion sources and collectors of the calutrons were brought back for analysis. In addition, samples were taken from the declared product batches, covering a range of enrichment from depleted <0.1 wt% to 6 wt% (see Table 11.11). 

Migrant Health Programs Dick Bohrer Paper. 2001. Observations and Recommendations on Migrant Health Programs to the Office of Migrant Health Version 5 Draft Incorporating the Observations, Critiques, and Contributions of the MHP Action Team. Office of Migrant Health, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Bethesda, Maryland. 

U. S. EPA (1996). INERT Soil-Metals Action Team, Research and Development, Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 542ZF-96/101D, Washington DC. 

Includes a diverse range of provision including, for example, Programme Centres (that provide help with job search) Action Teams and ethnic minority initiatives specialist programmes for people with disabilities and Rapid Response services to assist after large scale redundancies... 

Florida, 2008, Florida s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan, Florida Action Team on Energy and Climate Change [available at www.flclimatechange.us/documents.cfm]. 

The FOCUS-PDCA/PMAIO Process Improvement Model is a statistical-based quality-control method for improving processes. This approach to problem solving could be used by all process action teams to ensure uniformity within an organization. FOCUS-PDCA/PMAIO is as follows ... 

Firstly, the PhRMA established a working team to address the need for improved BRA in 2005. The PhRMA working group developed the Benefit-Risk Action Team (BRAT) framework (Coplan et al. 2010), a general platform that seeks to incorporate all relevant aspects of the BRA. The BRAT framework consists of six steps as summarized in Table 15.1. The framework focuses on describing the BRA process that structures and assists decision making, but does not replace clinical judgment. 

Edmondson, A C. 2003. Speaking up in the operating room How team leaders promote learning in interdisciplinary action teams. Journal of Management Studies, A0 6), 1419 52. doi 10.1111/1467-6486.00386. 

Concept to Action Engaging the Sharp End through Safety Action Teams... 

Engaging the sharp end of the organization is critical to the success of patient safety. At Children s, front-line staff members developed the concept of safety action teams (SATs) to capture the knowledge and resourcefulness of front-line providers and to better enable them to improve safety at a local level. 

Casey Hooke, advanced practice nurse and creator of the Safety Action Team (SAT) concept, defines SATs as department- or unit-based interdisciplinary work groups that provide a "think tank" for staff to identify safety concerns, process them, and brainstorm new ways to address them (Hooke, 2002). Group membership varies according to individual needs, but SATs strive to include members who represent the continuum of care for the patients they serve. SATs include registered nurses, physicians, pharmacists, respiratory care practitioners, child-life specialists, unit service coordinators, and members of the management team. The group is chaired by a staff leader, or sometimes by two staff leaders who share the responsibility. 

The safety action team focuses on systems, not people. Participants view a ten-minute video. Beyond Blame (see Resources), that educates staff on the basics of... 

Hooke, C. Safety Action Teams Improving Care for Children with Cancer. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Mirsing, 2002, 19 2), 59. 

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