Assess Controls

The assessment of controls is an effort by you, with input from employees, to select controls that are reasonably anticipated to eliminate or materially reduce the MSD hazards. You may find that several controls would be reasonably likely to reduce the hazard. Multiple control alternatives are often available, especially when several risk factors contribute to the MSD hazard. You need to assess which of the possible controls should be tried. Clearly, a control that significantly reduces several risk factors is preferred over a control that only reduces one of the risk factors. 

Selection of the risk factor(s) to control, and control measures to try, can be based on numerous criteria. An example of one method involves ranking aU of the ergonomic risk factors and possible controls according to how well they meet these four criteria  

Because of the multifactorial nature of MSD hazards, it is not always clear whether the selected controls will achieve the intended reduction in exposure to the hazards. As a result, the control of MSD hazards often requires testing selected controls and modifying them appropriately before 

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Detailed All <0.25 X OEL <1.25 X OEL Arithmetic mean <0.5 xOEL Mean >0.5 x OEL (or with individual results scattered above the limit) None if exposure is as low as reasonably practical. Investigate, take remedial action and repeat survey. Consider routine monitoring and the appropriate frequency. Investigate, assess control measures, improve where possible, repeat survey and consider routine monitoring. 

Mean >0.5 x OEL (or with Investigate, assess control measures, improve where... 

Pollution Prevention Opportunities Assessment Control Technologies Assessment... 

Tetreault, J. (2003) Airborne Pollutants in Museums, Galleries, and Archives Risk Assessment, Control Strategies, and Preservation Management, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Canada. 

Software development is one of the most risk-prone management challenges. Risk factors can negatively impact the development process and, if ignored, can lead to project failure. To counteract these factors, system risk must be actively assessed, controlled, and reduced on a routine basis.1... 

Safety engineers and experts are now being asked to conduct the risk assessments required to understand the impact of component and structural failures, uncontrolled radiation or chemical releases, transient operations and unanticipated shutdowns occurring at the chemical or nuclear plant on the safe operation of the other plant. Based on these assessments, control systems and mitigation actions are being developed to minimise the impact of a component or structure failures. Finally,... 

The method underestimates compounds with slow dissolution rate. To minimize the risk of a wrong assessment control measurements with other methods (preferably HPLC-methods) are recommended. This could be done with one or two members of a compound class. 

Paxeus, N. and H. F. Schroder (1995). Screening for non-regulated organic compounds in municipal wastewater in Goteborg, Sweden. Water Science Technol. Proc. 1995 2nd lAWQ Int. Specialized Conf. Hazard Assessment Control Environmental Contaminants Water, June 29-30, 1995, Lyngby, Denmark, 33, 6, 9-15. Pergamon Press, Tarrytown, NY. 

The ACC s expanded RCMS will be a useful tool in pursuing sustainability, although it is not a panacea. Top-level commitment, clear vision of company mission, risk assessment, control activities, information and communications, and monitoring is essential. It is important to gain a thorough understanding of how RCMS supports sustainability - and how it does not. 

As a matter of routine quality assessment, control specimens that test the entire preanalytic, analytic, and postanalytic process should be used. For example, in the area of microbiology or oncology testing, positive and negative control samples should be analyzed with any patient samples and taken through the extraction, amplification, and detection portions of the analysis to assure that established limits of detection and/or quantification are being met. Any amplification reaction should include a blank control that contains all reagents but not an amplifiable template as a means to identify amplicon contamination. 

Risk management Systematic application of quality management policies, procedures, and practices to the tasks of assessing, controlling, and communicating risk. 

NRC/U.S. Coast Guard coordinate numerous information services, systems, and centers to assist in emergency response. Included are the Marine Safety Information Center, Hazard Assessment Control System, Chemical Hazard Response Information System, Oil and Hazardous Materials-Technical Assistance Data System, Structural and Nomenclature Search System, and Pollution Equipment Inventory System. 

The platform should support the construction project occupational health three simultaneous management functions, supervision of the project design, construction, construction of different periods of pre-evaluation of occupational hazards, occupational hazards monographs for design, occupational hazards assessment and should have support issue occupational hazards pre-assessment, control assessment, now rating, daily inspection report of the occupational... 

Industrial Hygiene—An area of specialization in the field of industrial safety and health that is concerned with predicting, recognizing, assessing, controlling, and preventing... 

Diacetyl. OSHA recently gained some additional research to use in the development of a food flavorings rule. NIOSH released a draft document recommending exposure limits, risk assessments, control measures, and other items related to the diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione. 

QRM finds its way into medicines regulations as it is seen as a systematic process for the assessment, control, communication and review of risks to the quality of the medicinal product. A structured and documented management of risks is a requirement in EU GMP as well as in the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.). A guideline with a description of QRM elements together with appropriate tools is to be found in ICH Q9, mainly directed at manufacturing. Finally implementation of QRM in the Pharmaceutical Quality System is briefly elaborated. 

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