Enquiries

The UK government enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea in 1988 has had a significant impact on working practices and equipment and has helped to improve offshore safety around the world. One result has been the development of a Safety Management System (SMS) which is a method of integrating work practices, and is a form of quality management system. Major oil companies have each developed their own specific SMS, to suit local environments and modes of operation, but the SMS typically addresses the following areas (recommended by the Cullen Enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster) ... 

Redaction of the draft was finished during the meeting of September 1997, and it has been sent for two-month enquiry in December 1997. The ad hoc group is now expecting the comments drawn by this enquiry to proceed to the revision of the document and to get it ready for six-month enquiry. 

As said earlier, the draft standard is now in the enquiry/revision circuit. The estimated date for the standard publication is, in the best case, the end of 1999. 

Thus one must rely on macroscopic theories and empirical adjustments for the determination of potentials of mean force. Such empirical adjustments use free energy data as solubilities, partition coefficients, virial coefficients, phase diagrams, etc., while the frictional terms are derived from diffusion coefficients and macroscopic theories for hydrodynamic interactions. In this whole field of enquiry progress is slow and much work (and thought ) will be needed in the future. 

Our survey of the activities of the Government, industry and voluntary bodies in the control of pollution discloses several issues which need further enquiry. The first and most difficult of these is how to balance the considerations which determine the levels of public and private expenditure on pollution control. Some forms of pollution bear more heavily on society than others some forms are cheaper than others to control and the public are more willing to pay for some forms of pollution control than for others. There are also short and long-term considerations in the short-term the incidence of pollution control on individual industries or categories of labor may be heavy but. . . what may appear to be the cheapest policy in the short-term may prove in the long-term to have been a false economy. 

At this stage of my enquiry 1 can draw only a few tentative conclusions from the case-histories presented above. I shall return at the end of the book to the issue of how disciplines evolve and when, to adopt biological parlance, a new discipline becomes self-fertile. 

Regular skin inspections, e.g. at a frequency of once per month monitoring of any respiratory problems by simultaneous enquiries and completion of an annual questionnaire Prohibit air lines for blowing clean components Prohibit eating, drinking or smoking near machines... 

Health surveillance on a regular basis covering skin inspections, enquiries/tests relating to respiratory function consider the need to screen out staff with medical histories of allergic reactions. 

INTERNALS and EXTERNALS DATE OF ENQUIRY DATE OF ORDER 31... 

A.W.M. Davies, Public Enquiry into a Fire at Dudgeon s Wharf on 17 July 1969, Her Majesty s Stationery Office, London, 1970. 

Address Athena Drive Tachbrook Park, Warwickshire CV34 6RL United Kingdom E-mail enquiry calorgas.co.uk Web site www.calorgas.co.uk... 

Provide support materials to key people. Prepare a briefing document, drawn from the integration proposal and executive summary, that executives, colleagues, and staff can use in responding to internal or external enquiries or in crafting speeches and other presentations. This document is often framed in terms of providing answers to questions that employees or other interested parties may ask. Some sample questions and answers are provided at the end of this chapter. 

Ill 1759 Smeaton presented to the Royal Society a paper entitled An Experimental Enquiry concerning the natural Power of Water and Wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion. This paper was the result of a series of experiments carried out in 1752 and 1753, Smeaton having delayed its publication until he had put his deductions into practice. At the time there was a lively debate as to the merits of undershot and overshot waterwheels, but little published data to substantiate various claims. Smeaton s solution to this problem depended solely on experiments made with working... 

The authority granting permission to build will depend upon the type and size of building. Major projects, such as nuclear power stations or large industrial complexes, may involve a public enquiry and the need to produce a study into the environmental impact. Though a committee nominated by the local authority will consider the planning submission. 

If the incident constitutes a reportable accident as defined in legislation the plant engineer will also ensure that the incident is immediately reported to the Factory Inspectorate. The Inspectorate will decide whether they wish to carry out an enquiry and, particularly if there has been loss of life, the accident site may be compulsorily isolated. Unless this is so, investigation by the insurer or a loss adjuster acting on his behalf may proceed. 

Public enquiry points HSE library and information services... 

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