Activity qualifiers

When it was written in 1954, section 174 gave little indication of what activities qualified as... 

The GE IVVT members include individuals transferred from the GENE service department that do not participate in the Lungmen design activities qualified third-party organizations for specific independent V V tasks TPC engineers experts from Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER). 

A total of 10,747 active, qualified ISHN direct request subscribers were selected from these industries -50% manufacturing, 20% construction, 10% utilities, 10% chemical/refining processes, 10% consultants. A web-based survey was used, with fielding dates September 9-17, 2010. 363 usable completed surveys were returned, for a 3% response rate. 

The 5th Framework Programme must be more flexible, both in its research activities and in the decision-making process. The Commission proposes that a simplified decision-making procedure should apply to research policy, including the use of qualified majority voting rather than unanimity in the Council of Ministers. 

Inspection Authority The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors is composed of the chief inspectors of states and municipalities in the United States and Canadian provinces which have made any pari of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code a legal requirement. This board promotes uniform enforcement of boiler and pressure-vessel rules. One of the board s imporiant activities is providing examinations for, and commissioning of, inspectors. Inspeciors so qualified and employed by an insurance company state, municipality, or Canadian province may inspect a pressure vessel and permit it to be stamped ASME—NB (National Board). An inspector employed by a vessel user may authorize the use of only the ASME stamp. The ASME Code Committee authorizes fabricators to use the various ASME stamps. The stamps, however, may be apphed to a vessel only with the approval of the inspector. 

Step 5 Establish the Basis for the System Parameters. Is the process steady-state, or do the parameters represent transient or intermittent conditions These considerations qualify the nature of the operation, and ultimately qualify the conditions under which corrective actions are taken in any P2 activities the team recommends. 

Laboratories Listed toxic chemicals that are manufactured, processed, or otherwise used in laboratory activities at a covered facility under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual do not have to be factored into the threshold and release calculations. However, pilot plant scale and specialty chemical production do not qualify for this laboratory activities exemption. 

The order used to clean these areas may be intuitive, but for clarity s sake we should keep in mind the following principle. Cleanup should be performed in the cleanest areas first. For the five-stage decontamination area mentioned, cleaning should start in the clean room. In fact, cleaning should start in the cleanest area of the clean room, and then address each area in order of cleanliness. The last area to be cleaned will be the dirty room. If workers will be performing cleanup activities, they should be properly trained and qualified. If an outside service is utilized, those workers should also be trained and qualified [4]. 

Having qualified persons in the role of health and safety officer is required. How to determine minimum qualifications at each site is a site-specific task. It would depend on site activities, required and anticipated levels of protection, training requirements, general joh knowledge, and a variety of other factors. Sometimes choosing a qualified SSO can he quite difficult. The authors are in agreement that personally contacting references is very important. 

Site conditions and work activities change constantly. Change, and what effects change have on health and safety, should be included in every health and safety plan. If not, the plan needs to be amended to reflect current site conditions. Individuals names for key on-site positions should be listed in each safety plan. If the personnel change, the plan should be amended. But prior to the amendment, a review of the replacement persons training and qualifications should take place to ensure that qualified persons are chosen. 

The standard requires that the design and verification activities he assigned to qualified personnel equipped with adequate resources. 

Definition of the verification activities that are to be performed to qualify or validate the design and those which need to be performed on every product in production as a means of ensuring that the qualified design standard has been maintained. 

All processes and equipment should be proven capable of performing the task for which they were designed and so should either be subject to qualification tests or process capability tests. There may be documentation available from the supplier of the equipment which adequately demonstrates its capability, otherwise you may need to carry out qualification and capability tests to your own satisfaction. In the process industries the plant is specially designed and so needs to be commissioned and qualified by the user. Your procedures need to provide for such activities and for records of the tests to be maintained. 

To limit the potential for deficiencies to escape detection before the product is released, special processes should be documented in the form of procedures and specifications that will ensure the suitability of all equipment, personnel, and facilities, and prevent varying conditions, activities, or operations. Qualification in the context of special processes means that you need to conduct a thorough assessment of the processes to determine their capability to maintain or detect the conditions needed to produce conforming product consistently. The limits of capability need to be determined and the processes only applied within these limits. In qualifying the processes you need to qualify the personnel using them by training and examination as well as the materials, equipment, and facilities employed. It is the combination of personnel, materials, equipment, and facilities which ensure qualified processes. 

By being independent of the audited activities, the auditor is unaware of the pressures, the excuses, the informal instructions handed down and can examine operations objectively without bias and without fear of reprisals. It is for this reason that it was considered appropriate for the auditor to have no direct responsibility for the work being audited i.e. audits carried out by a manager, supervisor, or foreman of his/her own department or section do not qualify as internal quality audits in ISO 9001 1994. However, they will qualify under ISO 9000 2000. 

Nevertheless, the response of water resources will be more complex, as human activities will also change in response to altered climates. The intensity of the pressure put on water resources and aquatic ecosystems by external drivers is related to higher economic income (e.g. expressed by electricity production and consumption) of human societies [5]. The limitation of resources can be qualified by a diversity of terms, varying somewhat in intensity drought, temporality, and... 

The approval of buprenorphine for the office-based treatment of opioid dependence represents a major departure from the earlier methadone clinic system. Physicians with addiction specialist credentials or those who have completed 8 hours of approved training can become qualified to treat up to 30 patients in their private offices. Stable patients may be given prescriptions for up to a month of medication. The combination buprenorphine/naloxone tablet is expected to have minimal risk for diversion. When taken subhnguaUy, as prescribed, naloxone has minimal biologic activity and does not interfere with the buprenorphine dose. However, if an attempt is made to inject the drug, the addict will experience the full antagonist effect of the naloxone. 

Your children may be exposed to endosulfan if unquahfied people apply pesticides around your home. In some cases, the use of pesticides that have been banned for use in homes has turned homes into hazardous waste sites. Your state licenses each person qualified to apply pesticides using EPA standards and further certifies each person qualified to apply restricted use pesticides. Ask to see the license and certification of anyone who applies pesticides for you. Also ask for the brand name of the pesticide, a material safety data sheet (MSDS), the name of the product s active ingredient, and the EPA registration number. Ask whether EPA has designated the pesticide for restricted use and what the approved uses are. This information is important if you or your family have a reaction to the product. 

One of the sources of the fuzziness surrounding these concepts may well be the implicit assumption in structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies that molecular structure contains (i.e. encodes) the information on the biological activity of a given compound. Such an assumption cannot be incorrect, since this would imply the fallacy of SAR studies. However, the assumption becomes misleading if not properly qualified to the effect that the molecular structure of a given compound contains only part of the information on its bioactivity. Indeed, what the structure of a compound encodes is information about the molecular features accounting... 

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