Company-specific requirements

Other items may be required for specific applications including any local regulatory requirements (must meet NFPA85 [Ref. 1] for example), references to company specific requirements or other requirements. 

However, keep in mind that the federal regulations are quite strict when it comes to the separation of the DOT drug and alcohol testing program from any company-specific requirements. You must be certain that you are in full comphance with DOT requirements before you start imposing additional restrictions, tests, and/or penalties on your drivers. 

Instructor At this time present any additional company-specific requirements and policies in regard to vehicle inspections. If you have a company designed DVIR with additional items or a set order of completion, cover these points at this time. If time allows, set up one of your company s units with a number of defects and have teams of two or more drivers compete to see who can find the most potential problem areas. End the session with the 8-point quiz included at the end of this training module. 

Discuss any company specific requirements related to working around heavy equipment. Alert employees to any hazardous work areas they need to be especially carefiil in. 

Industry standards are a great place to start developing company-specific requirements for... 

Application. A company has received a very large shipment of rivets. One product specification required that no more than 2 percent of the rivets have diameters greater than 14.28 mm. Any rivet with a diameter greater than this would be classified as defective. A random sample of 600 was selected and... 

The book does not focus on occupational safety and health issues, although improved process safety can benefit each area. Detailed engineering designs are outside the scope of the book. This book intends to identify issues and concerns in batch reaction systems and provides potential solutions to address these concerns. This should be of value to process design engineers, operators, maintenance personnel, as well as members of process hazards analysis teams. While the book offers potential solutions to specific issues/concerns, ultimately the user needs to make the case for the solutions that best satisfy their company s requirements for a balance between risk reduction and cost. In many instances the book provides one or more sources of additional information on the subject which could be of value to the reader. 

Sufficient Authority. PSM system development often requires working across ot anizational boundaries and in some companies this requires specific authority. In addition, to be effective, the design team and its leader should be adequately empowered to undertake the task at hand without needing multiple approvals every step of the way. 

The safety policy for the company, although common in most parts with the safety policy for every company, may require being prepared in detail. This would naturally cover any process, hazardous product or procedure specific to the organization. In preparing the policy, it is essential to ensure that parts referred to in Section 2(3) of the 1974 Act are covered, i.e. ... 

Spills are covered by a variety of federal, state, and local reporting requirements and substantial penalties can result to a company and its employees for failing to report certain spills. Initial release notification is usually required immediately or within 24 hours of the release and, in some cases, written follow-up reports are required. Some of the applicable legislation is listed below and Table 64.1 lists some of the major reporting requirements for chemical spills that are specified by these Acts. However, refer to Hoechst Celanese s procedures for plant-specific requirements. 

Another unfortunate or fortunate situation exists that a very viable test was at one time developed and used within the industry. In time it was changed many times by different companies and organizations (ASTM, ISO, etc.) to meet new industries needs concerning specific requirements. One studying the potential of using that particular test may not have the access to the basic test that probably is all that is required. 

Biocatalysts Ltd. is an independent company that since 1980 has been devoted to the manufacture and sales enzymes. Since it is not part of a larger chemical, food ingredients or pharmaceutical company, instead of producing large volumes of commodity enzymes, it produces enzymes tailored to customer needs. Their services include working together with customers to industrialize their processes or to produce specific required enzymes. Usually, these customer sectors do not require single enzyme entities, but enzyme complexes where the ratios of each of the components are crucial to the efficacy of the whole enzyme-biocatalyst product and to the customer s process. Fermentation requirements for the manufacture of enzyme products are sub-contracted out. 

ACC has published a resource guide to aid member companies in implementing the Responsible Care Process Safety Code (ACC, 1989). Although the guide provides suggestions on how to continually improve process safety, it does not prescribe how to comply with the code. It does not list specific requirements for reactive hazard management, but does require management systems to be developed-several of which could apply to reactive hazards as determined by each member company. 

ACC member companies are required to establish company-specific goals against which progress is measured toward the common vision of no accidents, injuries, or harm to the environment. An example of one such goal is to limit the annual number of process safety incidents below a target level. 

Materials purchased for the purpose of mixing with other materials in the preparation of pharmaceutical products are called raw materials. Pharmaceutical companies often purchase solid raw materials as powders in large drums. Quality assurance laboratories require samples of the material in the drums for the purpose of performing quality tests to see if the raw materials meet the specifications required for the company s products. 

Step 4 Project initiation and approval Define a project to develop and implement the proposed new method or analyzer and get it approved by the sponsor. The documentation required by the sponsor is usually company-specific, but will typically include goal, business value, critical technical issues to be addressed, ramifications, proposed approach, resources needed (including personnel time), deliverables, and timing. 

Quite often, insurance companies, the local Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), corporate staffs, and others will have the responsibility to review and approve fire protection system designs to ensure compliance with their specific requirements. Designers should identify such requirements and ensure that these are adequately addressed in developing the design for the fire protection system. 

Representatives should be provided with written instructions on the application of the Code to their work even if they are also provided with an actual copy of it. Their instructions should cover such matters as the company s policies on meetings and hospitality, and the associated allowable expenditure, and the specific requirements for representatives in Clause 15 of the Code. It should be made clear how reporting to the scientific service of the company is to be carried out in relation to information about the medicines which they promote which comes to their notice, particularly reports of side-effects (Clause 15.6). 

The following design specifications are establishing based on guidelines provided in USP 24. They can be further fine-tuned according to the individual company s requirement. For general guidelines refer to section D. 

Design Qualification When a pharmaceutical industry intends to purchase new equipment, it must first know and define what type of equipment and which specifications it must have. Specifications must be set taking into account specific requirements of the company or facility. All the specifications of the equipment must be reviewed. This is called design qualification. The requirements of the equipment must be defined in a specific document previous to the purchase by any pharmaceutical company. The document generated is used to justify the equipment selection from the various proposals. 

It is in the interest of (company name) to ensure that a management system describing its total operations is carefully thought out and implemented so that the likelihood of error is reduced. This can only be achieved by implementing a quality system specific to the company s requirements or the standard, which has global recognition in general. 

Government departments, although contributing to the work of BSI, also produce their own standardisation. The reasons for this are really similar to those which apply to individual companies - they are unable to wait for the BS svstem or they have specific requirements unique to themselves. This... 

Throughout the data collection phase unexpected complications were encountered in the pilot application because calculations obtained from the ERP system were often not comparable across plants. Even if the same ERP system was used (which was not the case for all sites considered), different conventions were used for distributing costs across products. Additionally, recipes pulled from the ERP system often did not reflect the actual recipes employed in production. For example, significant differences in absolute raw material quantities required and relative relationship between the different raw materials were found. As similar problems are also reported in the literature discussing practical applications of mathematical modeling approaches (e.g., Kallrath 2000, p. 817 Lee and Billington 1995, p. 46), this appears to be the norm rather than a company-specific exception. 

While there are no specific requirements, most companies use a concentration between 0.1 and lmg/mL (1). Some companies use multiple concentrations, but most (14 out of 20 surveyed) use one concentration. 

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