Communication alerting

Know how to respond properly if an uncontrolled reaction takes place (including operator actions, emergency response plans, community alerting plans, etc.). 

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Club Drugs Community Alert Bulletin. February 21, 2002 (July 8, 2002). . 

Thus if you can minimize either hazard or exposure, you minimize the risk or likelihood of harm. Successful hazard communication alerts the user to the presence of a hazard and the need to minimize exposures and the resulting risks. 

NIDA. (2004). Community alert bulletin on club drugs. Bethesda, MD Author. 

Other types of telephone-based community alerting systems, e.g., those using digital lines... 

Much of the communication between insects involves chemical messengers called pheromones A species of cockroach secretes a substance from its mandibular glands that alerts other cockroaches to its presence and causes them to congregate One of the principal components of this aggregation pheromone is the alkane shown in the bond line formula that follows Give the molecular formula of this substance and represent it by a condensed formula... 

The language of the supplier notification requirements covers mixtures or trade name products that are sold or otherwise distributed. The "otherwise distributes" language applies to intra-company transfers. However, if the company has developed an internal communications procedure that alerts their other facilities to the presence and content of covered toxic chemicals in their products, then EPA would accept this. 

The safety alert concept is another tool that can be used by large or small businesses to communicate past best practices and indicate a path forward. On a daily basis, lessons learned should be communicated in a site safety meeting. A worker or supervisor may have discovered that a current practice could cause a potentially dangerous situation. Many times the correction or long-term fix for a hazard involves engineering... 

The safety alert concept may also have a downside. Let s say that after an incident, the company management agrees that parts of the investigation and incident circumstances should be communicated to all workers in the company. After all, if we communicate the existence of a potential danger, we should be able to eliminate the injury in the future. To some, this is just common sense and can be considered a no brainer. However, at a later date, should another employee of that same company suffer a similar injury, what do you think the outcome might be The injured worker (or his lawyer) might be able to prove that the company was negligent because it knew of the problem (as shown in the safety alert) but failed to adequately address it. 

This applies particularly to the need for coordination by DOE sites with off-site response personnel and agencies (e.g., mutual aid agreements and public alert mechanisms). EPA has provided guidance to communities and fire departments for identifying, acquiring, and maintaining HAZMAT response equipment and trained personnel appropriate for their locale. 

For the most part, future trends will be found in liazard accident prevention, not liazard analysis. To help promote liazard accident prevention, companies should start employee-training programs. These programs should be designed to alert staff and employees about tlie liazards tliey are exposed to on tlie job. Training should also cover company safety policies and tlie proper procedures to follow in case an accident does occur. A major avenue to reducing risk will involve source reduction of hazardous materials. Risk education and communication are two other areas tliat will need iniprovemcnt. 

Ms. Evans, age 75 years, is to be dismissed on a regimen of doxy cy cline (Vibramycin). You note that she is alert and has good communication skills. Because die lives alone, die will be responsible for administering her own drug. Devise a teaching plan for Ms. Evans. You may want to use the teaching plan form in Chapter 5. 

National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA Community Drug Alert Bulletin Club Drugs. Rockville, MD, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2004a. Available at http //www.drugabuse.gov/ClubAlert/ClubDrugAlert.html. Accessed May 9, 2005. 

Communications plays a vital role in alerting and notifying both in facility personnel and outside emergency agencies that a major incident has occurred. Communication systems should not be arranged so a single point failure exists. Of primary concern is the provision of a backup source of power and a remote backup activation and signaling post. 

The full text of the 1985 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer is available at http //www.unep.org/ozone/vienna t.shtml, and contains much of the primary data that alerted the scientific community to the threats of CFCs, etc. It is somewhat dated now, but the Web page of the United Nations Ozone Secretariat is more reliable http //www.unep.org/ozone/index-en.shtml. 

Technology—involve pharmaceutical companies and distributors to develop innovative solutions, such as radiofrequency identification (RFID) to track movements of drugs, tamper-proof packaging to deter tampering, and printing technologies aimed at end user compliance Risk communication—IMPACT to develop and coordinate effective mechanisms to alert and respond to counterfeit drug activities inform and educate users and healthcare professionals to be alert and report suspicious cases... 

Craker et used Bel W, tobacco as a relatively simple monitoring device whereby interested citizens could develop some idea of the biologic severity of oxidant pollution in their community. There are problems with their study, but the concept is useful and might alert a community to potential pollution problems. 

Each type of emergency alarm or signal must clearly inform those onsite of the actions to be taken. This requires training and testing of the alarm so personnel can recognize the alarm and take appropriate action. Some of these alarms may be automatic. For example, detection of a fire may be signaled directly by the protection or detection system rather than by an individual. This alarm signal may alert not only personnel in the immediate area, but all facility personnel and the community fire department. 

The term report can have several meanings. Sometimes the term could mean a verbal initial notification or communication to alert the organiza-... 

Genotoxicity studies may provide information on whether or not the substance is likely to be a genotoxic carcinogen. Also, positive results in cell transformation or intercellular gap junction communication tests should be taken as alerts for potential carcinogenicity. 

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