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World Health Organization, Hazard Prevention and Control in the Work Environment Airborne Dust, 1999. 

Eisenreich N., Neutz J., Seiler R, Hensel D., Stand M., Tesitel J., Price R., et al., Selected papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention, and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions, 6th ISHPMIE, 2007, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 27-September 1, 2006. 

Are the managers, supervisors, and support staff sufficiently knowledgeable about pollution prevention and waste minimization (prevention and source reduction of hazardous materials), such that these are incorporated into their chemical hazard prevention and mitigation activities ... 

GOVERNMENT, ENTERPRISE AND AGENCY OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD PREVENTION AND CONTROL WORK... 

Thirty-four states and many nations around the world already require or encourage employers to implement such programs. The key elements common to all of these programs are management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification and assessment, hazard prevention and control, education and training, and program evaluation and improvement. 

DuPont s Commitment statement is believed by its employees to be sincerely presented, and it is applied by management as written. It establishes a proactive rather than a reactive posture and implies anticipatory hazard prevention and control and the allocation of the resources necessary for accomplishment. 

In all organizations where safety expectations are high, technical information systems exist to serve as resources on hazard prevention and control. Personnel at all levels come to rely on those resources. 

Serve as a means of communicating that hazard prevention and control is important within the organization s culture... 

In entities that have achieved outstanding safety records, all employees know that management is held accountable, is involved, and holds subordinates responsible for their results. If incident experience is considered to be unsatisfactory by management, safety professionals should promote, with great tact and diplomacy, the asking of the obvious but difficult questions. Has that experience resulted from an absence of management commitment to hazard prevention and control Has the adverse experience been programmed into operations, by implication ... 

With this knowledge, safety directors say they can more effectively draft their hazard prevention and control proposals, emphasizing their favorable financial impact on overall operations, including applicable aspects of productivity and cost efficiency, as well as risk reduction. 

Management policies, organization, and commitment are shown together as one element in some causation models. One could aigue that management commitment and involvement deserve separate and distinct consideration since they are the reflection and extension of the organization s culture, from which all hazard prevention and control decisions derive. 

B. Hazard Prevention and Control Examples of Engineering Controls... 

An effective ergonomics program should include the following four components worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, medical management, and training and education. 

B. Hazard Prevention and Control. Ergonomic hazards are prevented primarily by effective design of a job or job site. An employer s program should establish procedures to correct or control ergonomic hazards... 

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