Barriers to Reporting

Why is it so difficult to get employees to report near miss incidents They could be discouraged by one of these common barriers  

Employees don t know they are supposed to report near miss incidents, after all, nothing happened. 

They don t know how to go about it. The training was insufficient or the report methods are not clear. 

They are afraid of being reprimanded or disciplined for actions that led to the near miss incident. 

Employees feel pressure from co-workers to keep quiet so that nobody gets into trouble and nobody loses the safety bonus or spoils the safety record. They are under pressure to maintain a clean incident/accident/injury record so that the team will get the safety bonus or reward. 

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Ensure that there are no barriers to reporting administration-related errors, such as burdensome paperwork and fear of punitive action. 

These are a few of the reasons why a near miss incident quickly vaporizes away and doesn t get captured. The most common barrier to reporting of near miss incidents is the perception that nothing happened, and the other all-time challenge, to the leadership, Nothing will be done, so why waste time to report it ... 

Maintains open communications with all employees and reduces or eliminates barriers to reporting safety issues, hazards, and associated risk. 

Medicine. The polymethacrylates have been used for many years in the manufacture of dentures, teeth, denture bases, and filling materials (116,117) (see Dental materials). In the orthodontics market, methacrylates have found acceptance as sealants, or pit and fissure resin sealants which are painted over teeth and act as a barrier to tooth decay. The dimensional behavior of curing bone-cement masses has been reported (118), as has the characterization of the microstmcture of a cold-cured acryUc resin (119). Polymethacrylates are used to prepare both soft and hard contact lenses (120,121). Hydrogels based on 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate are used in soft contact lenses and other biomedical appHcations (122,123) (see Contactlenses). 

Accounting for this effect, it was possible to apply dynamic NMR spectroscopy to measure energy barriers to the prototropic rearrangements of pyrazoles. Temperature-variable spectra of a series of 4-substituted pyra-zoles 5 and 6 have been studied in methanol-d4 solutions and the free energy barriers of the degenerate type 2a 2b tautomerization reported (93CJC1443). 

H321). Tliese radical cations exist in a nonplanar conformation. With fra s-3,4-dimethyl substituents, the barrier to ring flip was estimated to be >5 kcal/mol. In connection with reactions of thiirane with the thiirane radical cation, ab initio calculations were reported on the 1,2-dithietane radical cation (93JA12510). 

There are substantial differences in the rates at which water vapor and other gases can permeate different plastics. For instance, PE is a good barrier for moisture or water vapor, but other gases can permeate it rather readily. Nylon, on the other hand, is a poor barrier to water vapor but a good one to other vapors. The permeability of plastic films is reported in various units, often in grams or cubic centimeters of gas per 100 in.2 per mil of thickness (0.001 in.) of film per twenty-four hours. The transmission rates are influenced by such different factors, as pressure and temperature differentials on opposite sides of the film. 

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations (using the Gaussian 80 computer program) on the barrier to pseudorotation (for the furanose ring) of two model compounds, 2-deoxy-/ -D- /) cero-tetrofuranosylamine (781) and 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-)3-D-erythrofuranosylamine (782) were reported. Al-... 

Cyclic phosphorochloridites are reported to undergo rapid inversion at phosphorus. This has now been shown to depend on the purity of the sample, and pure samples, which show high barriers to inversion, have been obtained. ... 

Similar results have recently been reported by Aspnes and Heller. They proposed an autocatalytic model for photoactive systems involving metal/compound semiconductor interfaces. To explain induction times in CdS systems (.9), they suggest that hydrogen incorporated in the solid lowers the barrier to charge transfer across the interface and thereby accelerates H2 production rates. 

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