Employees should

Employees should be regularly briefed on the organisation s trade secret program. These briefings should be directed toward the clarification of issues, questions, and concerns. If an employee leaves the company, the organisation should remind the employee of its rights and that the obligations of confidentiaHty continue to bind the employee even after termination of employment. 

Works Made for Hire. In many instances one person has created a work at the behest of another. In such circumstances, the creator does not own the copyright. As an easy example, consider a company that manufactures an appHance and has one of its employees write an instmction manual for the apphance. Logically, the company, and not the employee, should own the copyright. 

In this case the training focus can be on the special needs of the process in question. The new or revised operating, maintenance, and emergency response procedures should always be reviewed with the workers expected to perform them. Each employee should have an opportunity to ask questions, familiarize himself or herself with the sequence and assure they understand the steps. 

Employees should have adequate training ensuring that they understand their role and responsibilities in their assigned job. They should also understand the role and responsibility of their work group s function and how it relates to the overall business. 

Employees should have access to training that develops their work skills in order that they may use state-of-the-art methods and systems related to their particular functions. 

Career planning is a necessary component of an overall approach to quality. Each employee should be viewed as having a career within the organization. People are more likely to take an innovative approach when they know that they have a long-term relationship with the organization. Confirm records and examine career plans. ... 

Employees should never breathe air containing a level of asbestos which exceeds these limits. Moreover the level should always be reduced so far as it reasonably can be. Use should be made of ... 

Site-specific health and safety requirements and site personnel, including contractors, are typically held responsible for managing and conducting all activities safely. Every worker should understand that he or she is responsible for sharing in the commitment to a safe workplace. In addition, employees should perform their work in accordance with any applicable laws, regulations, contract provisions, and established site-specific requirements. 

All employees should be trained in how to use the JHA. Managers are in the best position to do the training by observing the job as it is being performed to determine whether or not the employee is doing the job in accordance with the job procedures. 

It is important to assign both authority and specific responsibility to implement each protective measure. A safety engineer may need to provide the training the manager should provide safe tools and equipment and the employees should inspect their tools to ensure that they are in safe condition. 

The following employees should also be ineluded in a medieal sur-veillanee program ... 

Employee training is the first step. Before being allowed to work with the designated PPE, employees should demonstrate their... 

Has there been a situation where the employee should have been examined and has not and [OSHA Referenee. 120(f)(2)]... 

The ma.ximum individual health risk for FATE employees should be less... 

Tlie iiiaximmii individual fatal risk for employees should be less tlian ... 

All health care personnel should be strongly encouraged to receive the influenza vaccine yearly in order to prevent transmission of influenza within the health care facility and to decrease employee absenteeism for influenza-related reasons. The vaccine should be made available to employees at the workplace, free of charge. Employees should be asked to sign a declination if refusing to receive the influenza vaccine. Additionally, health care facilities should report the number of health care personnel receiving influenza vaccine as a patient safety measure.19... 

Employees should be trained on safe handling of materials and wastes and encouraged to continuously improve. Training familiarizes workers with their responsibilities, which reduces spills and accidents. 

An employee should respect the confidences of his employer, even long after employment has ended. 

Employees should have regular written reports on their adjudged level of job performance... 

Employees should be reminded to answer questions concisely, directly, and truthfully giving only the facts, not opinions or conclusions. 

The potential for spreading disease organisms from animals to humans and vice versa is not obvious to most people. These so-called zoonotic diseases include agents of all the major categories of infectious organisms viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. Infectious hazards are insidious, and therefore safe practices should be habitual and strictly enforced. All employees should be instructed as to the nature of these hazards and the means to take to protect animals and themselves from infection. Employees should also be instructed to report all personal illnesses to their supervisor. The supervisor can then determine whether or not it would be appropriate for the employee to have contact with test and control articles and test systems. 

The quahty system should be documented in a QA program manual that outlines ah the quahty pohcies and procedures for the laboratory. This manual should be considered the handbook for ah employees. New employees should become famihar with the document so that they can use it to answer questions that may arise in their work. New or retrained employees should sign a form documenting that they have read and imderstood the manual. This form should be kept in the personnel files. 

In clean room operations, employees should be correctly attired according to relevant SOP. 

Employees performing GMP-related tasks should be trained periodically in the principles of GMP that apply to their operation. At least biennially they should be reminded of the documentation practices noted above as well as their responsibility to follow procedures as prescribed. Employees should also be encouraged to inform their supervisor of any incorrectly performed operations. Finally they should be informed that it is necessary to report to their supervisor any illness, especially open lesions, that they have, which may contaminate the excipient during the performance of their responsibilities. Employee GMP training should also be documented. 

When the employee begins working, the focus should turn to the safe operation of equipment and proper materials handling and spill cleanup procedures. Techniques should be demonstrated for minimizing the amount of material allowed to escape and the human exposure to it. Employees should also be taught the signs and methods of detecting the release of toxic material into the work environment. 

Spills are most likely to occur during loading/unloading operations and in-plant transfer activities. For this reason, written procedures should be kept current and made easily accessible to all employees. In addition, a spill response plan should be formulated, and employees should be trained both in the current operating procedures and in the correct implementation of emergency spill measures. A policy of taking disciplinary action on violation, if strictly enforced, can ensure employee adherence to procedure. 

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