Family Pressure

Social and family pressure has a role in motivating individuals, but most people sense that peer groups are the prime movers in the workplace motivational arena thus, to motivate an individual who is under the influence of peers, one must spend time trying to change the peer group behavior. This is the only way to achieve the motivation of an individual within that group. 

The following is an example of how family pressure can be used as a positive reinforcement or motivator. In this particular situation, the woikers in a company were told that if they woiked safely at their jobsite they would accumulate points, which could be used to purchase items from their company catalog. These items could be purchased for either themselves or their family members. One woiker said his son reminded him daily to work safely. He did this because his father had promised him a bicycle when he accumulated enough points. The father was extra cautious at work because he had made this promise to his son and did not want to let him down. He said this had been a true incentive for him and had motivated him to work safely. Therefore, as you can see by this example, there are times when family pressure can also be a true motivator. 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT A PRACTICAL APPROACH 

This is an incentive program that tries to address individual injuries, supervisor commitment, crew peer pressure, absenteeism, and nonreporting of incidents. You can use anything deemed valuable by the workforce for a reward. It does not have to be personal days off (PDOs). The reward 

This program is started to eiiminate accidents and reduce absenteeism at the (Company). 

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Family pressures to be thin can play an important role, as can peer pressure. However, such influences probably only lead to an eating disorder in those who are vulnerable on other grounds. Traumatic experiences in childhood, such as being sexually abused, are commonly recounted in the developmental histories of patients who subsequently develop anorexia. But, as most women with a history of sexual abuse do not become anorectic, such experiences cannot be considered to be specific risk factors. They probably act by reducing self-esteem. 

The driver left to pursue a career outside of trucking. The driver enjoyed most aspects of the job and his or her overall performance was acceptable, but due to life-style issues or family pressures, the driver decided to leave. 

Allow the discussion to be casual and wander over topics including all issues that may affect a driver. Maintenance, miles, pay, payroll, eqmpment, operations, dispatchers, time off, and general operations should all be discussed as a minimum. Sometime during the conversation ask directly, If there was one thing that cordd be fixed to make you stay, what would it be After the conversation write down the top rea-son(s) the driver is leaving (home more, better pay, family pressure or problems, problems with equipment, dispatch, maintenance, etc). 

Understanding expectations Social pressure Familial pressure Level of expectations Fail to provide proper tools Faulty/flawed information What s in it for me ... 

Laminated Strand Products. The most recent developments in the family of wood-based composites are a group of laminated strand products, made with strands oriented in the long direction of the product and marketed as stmctural composite lumber. One product is made with long, narrow strips of softwood veneer. The strips or strands are about 2.5 x 13 x 600 mm (0.1 x 0.5 x 24 in.), coated with a PRE adhesive, and pressed under heat and pressure into large blocks. After the resin is cured the blocks are resawn and planed into lumber dimension stock. 

Chlorine, a member of the halogen family, is a greenish yellow gas having a pungent odor at ambient temperatures and pressures and a density 2.5 times that of air. In Hquid form it is clear amber SoHd chlorine forms pale yellow crystals. The principal properties of chlorine are presented in Table 15 additional details are available (77—79). The temperature dependence of the density of gaseous (Fig. 31) and Hquid (Fig. 32) chlorine, and vapor pressure (Fig. 33) are illustrated. Enthalpy pressure data can be found in ref. 78. The vapor pressure P can be calculated in the temperature (T) range of 172—417 K from the Martin-Shin-Kapoor equation (80) ... 

The De Danske Sukkerfabriker (DDS) diffuser extractor (Fig. 6) is a relatively simple version of this family of machines, employing a double screw rotating in a vessel mounted at about 10° to the horizontal. The double screw is used to transport the soHds up the gradient of the sheU, while solvent flows down the gradient. Equipment using a single screw in a horizontal sheU for countercurrent extraction of soHds under pressure has been described (19). 

HF is used as a source of fluorine for production of all the various fluorocarbon products. HF reacts in the presence of a suitable catalyst and under the appropriate temperature and pressure conditions with various organic chemicals to yield a family of products. A by-product stream of hydrochloric acid may be co-produced. 

Acetylene is condensed with carbonyl compounds to give a wide variety of products, some of which are the substrates for the preparation of families of derivatives. The most commercially significant reaction is the condensation of acetylene with formaldehyde. The reaction does not proceed well with base catalysis which works well with other carbonyl compounds and it was discovered by Reppe (33) that acetylene under pressure (304 kPa (3 atm), or above) reacts smoothly with formaldehyde at 100°C in the presence of a copper acetyUde complex catalyst. The reaction can be controlled to give either propargyl alcohol or butynediol (see Acetylene-DERIVED chemicals). 2-Butyne-l,4-diol, its hydroxyethyl ethers, and propargyl alcohol are used as corrosion inhibitors. 2,3-Dibromo-2-butene-l,4-diol is used as a flame retardant in polyurethane and other polymer systems (see Bromine compounds Elame retardants). 

Storage as Hydrides. The discovery of metal compounds that reversibly absorb hydrogen is relatively recent. In the 1970s, the AB and AB family of alloys, which reversibly absorb hydrogen at room temperature and low pressure, were identified (205). Both A and B are metals. As of this writing many such compounds are known LaNi and TiFe are examples. 

Polyethylene (PE) is a genetic name for a large family of semicrystalline polymers used mostiy as commodity plastics. PE resins are linear polymers with ethylene molecules as the main building block they are produced either in radical polymerization reactions at high pressures or in catalytic polymerization reactions. Most PE molecules contain branches in thek chains. In very general terms, PE stmcture can be represented by the following formula ... 

The largest segment of the CASE family of polyurethanes are elastomers. Cast polyurethane elastomers reached a new dimension when high pressure impingement mixing led to reaction injection molding (RIM). This technology is used widely in the automotive industry, and reinforced versions (RRIM) and stmctural molded parts (SRIM) have been added in more recent years. 

Examples of ideal binary systems ate ben2ene—toluene and ethylben2ene—styrene the molecules ate similar and within the same chemical families. Thermodynamics texts should be consulted before making the assumption that a chosen binary or multicomponent system is ideal. When pressures ate low and temperatures ate at ambient or above, but the solutions ate not ideal, ie, there ate dissimilat molecules, corrections to equations 4 and 5 may be made ... 

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