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Management and Employee Cooperation. Before beginning to collect data, the cooperation of the managers involved, including the first line supervisor, and of the workers should be secured. Management needs to be informed so that they can be confident that surveillance activities will not upset production or lead to injuries. Workers need to know what the valuation means to them and how the results are to be reported. Everyone needs to know how the measurement is to be conducted so that the actual measurement causes as Htde dismption as possible. 

This work is intended to be, as the title implies, a brief introduction to the principles of quality that are important for workers in a modem industrial analytical chemistry laboratory. It is intended to be a textbook for students preparing to become technicians or chemists in the chemical process industry. It is intended to be a quick reference for new employees in an industrial laboratory as they begin to learn the intricacies of regulations and company policies relating to quality and quality assurance. It is also intended for experienced laboratory analysts who need a readable and digestible introductory guide to issues of quality, statistics, quality assurance, and regulations. 

November 25, 2000— The nerve agent GB (sarin) is detected in employees work clothes. The workers come in from inspecting filters outside in cold weather and apparently the sarin begins vaporizing as their clothing warmed up. 

Figure 4.1 illustrates the nature of a job s safety risk profile, and what an employee can potentially encounter when they begin a new job. Education, experience, and training can prepare a new employee for normal and known safety risks. However, a number of other factors can add safety risks to a job. Figure 4.1 shows a number of these factors equipment safety issues, task assignment, workload and performance requirements, scheduling and work hours, environmental variance, co-worker behavior, supervision, and employee silence and safety voice. These... 

Process safety is a prerequisite to worker safety and begins when the plant or manufacturing line is on the drawing board. From comprehensive design and hazard analysis through preventive maintenance and employee training, we assure our operations not only meet the Occupational Safety Health Administration s (OSHA) Process Safety Management standard, but also are intrinsically safe. 

These four historic defenses were the beginning of the shirking of, and excuses for, safety responsibility. By putting the blame on the worker, the safety burden is shifted to the employees, and statements such as The majority of injuries are as a result of the unsafe behavior of the worker reinforce this incorrect assumption and misdirect well-intended safety efforts. Safety culture shift involves recognizing the principle of multiple causes and forces employers to look beyond the injured worker to seek root causes of accidents. 

Restricted work activity occurs when an employer or healthcare professional recommends that the worker can t do routine functions of his or her job or for a full workday. Count the number of calendar days the employee was on restricted work activity or was away from work as a result of the recordable injury or illness. Do not count the day on which the injury or illness occurred in this number. Begin counting days from the day after the incident occurs. If a single injury or illness involved both days away from work and days of restricted work activity, enter the total number of days for each. You may stop counting days of restricted work activity or days away from work once the total of either or the combination of both reaches 180 days. 

An occupational safety and health program begins with a policy placing paramount importance on workplace safety and health and protection of employees. Some companies will extend its commitment to off-the-job safety as well. The message establishes the importance of workers arriving for work safely and returning home safely each day. Some employees may extend their commitment to the safety of employee families. 

Employee involvement provides the means through which workers develop and/or express their own commitment to safety and health protection, for themselves and for their fellow workers. They are included from the beginning in the development and the implemen-... 

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