Executive Action

Once an alarm has been confirmed, actions should be taken to prevent or reduce the impact from the event. Depending on the priority of the alarms the following actions should be taken at the point of activation  

The facility evacuation and warning alarms should be activated, and personnel evacuation or muster should commence. 

Activate fixed fire extinguishing systems or vapor dispersion mechanisms (i.e., water sprays). 

Start fire water and foam solution (if applicable) pumps. 

Close HVAC fire and smoke dampers. Close fire doors. 

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Scan information sources (dials, chart recorders, etc.). If the pattern of indicators is very familiar, the worker will probably immediately branch to the Execute Actions box (via the thin arrow) and make the usual response to this situation (e.g., pressing the alarm accept button if the indications suggest a nonsignificant event). 

If the pattern does not fit into an immediately identifiable pattern, the process worker may then consciously apply more explicit "if-then" rules to link the various symptoms with likely causes. Three alternative outcomes are possible from this process. If the diagnosis and the required actions are very closely linked (because this situation arises frequently) then a branch to the Execute Actions box will occur. If the required action is less obvious, then the branch to the Select/Formulate Actions box will be likely, where specific action rules of the form "if situation is X then do Y" will be applied. A third possibility is that the operating team are unable or imwilling to respond immediately to the situation because they are uncertain about its implications for safety and/or production. They will then move to the Implications of plant state box. 

This is the actual mental function required by the task that failed (see Figure 2.17). In the case study imder consideration the failure was at the Execute Action stage of the stepladder model, since the worker intended to operate the valve for reactor A, so there was no question of failure in the selection of actions. The connection with the task characteristics box indicates the fact that action is a fimction required by the task. 

Site work is now mostly carried out by a number of subcontractors representing specialist trades. It is essential that authority and executive action are in the hands of a main contractor and that this authority is acknowledged by the subcontractors. If this is not so, delays and omissions will occur, with divided responsibility and lack of remedial action. 

Hydrocarbon vapors immediately bum with flame temperatures that are considerably higher than that of ordinary combustibles. For this reason damage from a hydrocarbon fire is much more severe than an ordinary combustible fire. The objective of a fire detection for the petroleum industry is to rapidly detect a fire where personnel, high value, and critical equipment may be involved. Once detected executive action is initiated to alert personnel for evacuation and while simultaneously controlling and suppressing the fire incident. 

Executive Action - Control process performed to initiate critical instructions or signals to safety devices. 

Four international conventions are developed at present by means of which the governments execute actions for controlling the dissemination and usage of the environmentally persistent pesticides on international scale. 

Obtaining a well executed action spectrum should make it possible to match wavelengths most efficient in initiating the herbicidal response with those of a specific plant pigment. 

There are two control computers (Main and Auxiliary) both communicated with Robot controllers and between them by RS-232 serial protocol. Through this communication, computers can execute ACL commands to move robots or enable/disable the output pins to execute actions in external control machine-tools, load/unload NC-programs to machine-tools and send control messages between them. 

Provisions in an insurance policy that indicate denied coverage. Common exclusions are hazards that are deemed so catastrophic in nature that they are uninsurable. Executive Action... 

Executive actions are those that require support from top management to make them work effectively. Executive... 

The greater the need for a solution, the greater the likelihood of public acceptance for a solution. The need for the WIPP repository was driven by the fact that radioactive waste generated in the United States national interest from defense programs required a national solution, which imposed responsibilities on the national decision makers to ensure relevant legislative and executive actions occurred in pursuit of a defense waste disposal solution. This national solution incentive associated with WIPP-directed key decisions that established the program and compelled its progress. 

Detailed written PT procedure for each SIF, process variable manipulated and executive action confirmed, staff training Whole SIS loop (eg sensor and valve)... 

First of all, SS can confirm/check the conduction of procedures and the execution actions of RO/TO/EO while confirming directly operation variables without relying on RO/TO/EO. Second, the entire operators added to their work the use of a new system called CBPs and Soft Controls, increasing the procedural workload. Third, direct confirmation of operation information enabled the contents and methods of communication between operators can be changed. 

Discussion between the most senior management of the participators in the work, to review reports and recommendations and to review minutes of the weekly meetings held on site to identify trends and points where executive action is required to implement necessary changes. 

Along with 15 partners, the USGBC have released a report that recommends nearly three dozen executive actions across 23 agency programs where the Obama Administration can drive the economic and environmental benefits of green building without new legislation. 

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