Hazards, specific

The hazards specific to the handling of a flammable gas in a compressor system are internal and external explosions and jet fires caused by ignition of gas escaping from a leak or break ... 

VI Hazard-Specific Procedures Procedures that explain the actions to be taken in response to a specific emergency, such as credible incidents (fire, chemical spill, etc.) and natural disasters. 

Other computer models and analytical tools are used to predict how materials, systems, or personnel respond when exposed to fire conditions. Hazard-specific calculations are more widely used in the petrochemical industry, particularly as they apply to structural analysis and exposures to personnel. Explosion and vapor cloud hazard modeling has been addressed in other CCPS Guidelines (CCPS, 1994). Again, levels of sophistication range from hand calculations using closed-form equations to numerical techniques. 

There can be no objection to the ingestion of bulk substances for the purpose of supplementing low-residue modern diets. However, use of irritant purgatives or cathartics is not without hazards. Specifically, there is a risk of laxative dependence, i.e the inability to do without them. Chronic intake of irritant purgatives disrupts the water and electrolyte balance of the body and can thus cause symptoms of illness (e.g., cardiac arrhythmias secondary to hypokalemia). 

An effective plan for delivering health and medical care in a mass casualty event should take into account factors common to all hazards (e.g., the need to have an adequate supply of qualified providers available), as well as factors that are hazard specific (e.g., guidelines for making isolation and quarantine decisions to contain an infectious disease). 

This article reviews direct and indirect (e.g., afterimage, flash blindness) light hazards from common incoherent light sources. For direct hazards specific to lasers and other specialized coherent sources, the reader is referred to organizations such as the Laser Institute of America and the International Electrotechnical Commission. 

Training of employees before they are allowed to engage in emergency response that could expose them to safety and health hazards. Specific training levels are listed for clean-up personnel, equipment operators, supervisory employees and for the various levels of emergency response personnel. 

Substances which have fatal effects or cause severe health problems in low doses are classified as toxic. Toxic compounds are labeled with the dedicated R-phrase and the hazard symbol skuU-and-crossbones T with the hazard specification toxic . The exact criteria are summarized in Table 3.3. 

The location below grade of the major portion of the Standard MHTGR systems and components which must fulfill, with a high level of confidence, their lOCFRlOO-related radionuclide control functions under design basis conditions provides inherent protection against many externally-generated missiles and other hazards. Specific categories are discussed further below. 

The foundation of the safety ease approaeh is to identify and document the specifie hazards, specific risks and the speeifie engineering, administrative and procedural measures that address them. To meet r latory requirements, submissions to regulatory agencies must provide conerete details. Ultimately compliance and enforcement activities focus on engineering hardware and aetivities in the field, prioritised on the basis... 

Even for the large organization with significant annual hours worked, in addition to historical data, hazard-specific and qualitative performance measures (safety audits, perception surveys, the incident... 

An effective program includes procedures for the systematic identification, evaluation, and prevention or control of general workplace hazards, specific job hazards, and potential hazards which may arise from foreseeable conditions. 

A general, but not hazard-specific, predictor of the experience that will develop in the future... 

A criticism of historical, after-the-fact data (of outcome statistics) is that such measures are not hazard-specific that is, they do not identify incident causal factors without additional analysis. That s so. If safety professionals want to identify hazard-specific situations that may be predictive and give direction to the actions that should be taken to reduce risk, they will have to do some analysis. 

The survey system to be discussed here had its origins in what has been known as the Critical Incident Technique. Although the technique has not been broadly used, it has real possibilities in identifying hazards before their potentials are realized. Also, application of such a system would build a body of predictive, hazard-specific knowledge. 

Cardiac sensitisation. Many solvents, at very high exposure levels, are able to affect the heart such that it becomes particularly sensitive to the effects of adrenaline or similar agents, whether generated internally within the body or administered therapeutically. This is known as cardiac sensitisation. In extreme cases, adrenaline generated by exercise or sudden shock can cause the sensitised heart suddenly to cease functioning. This is one of the hazards specifically associated with solvent abuse. 

Preliminary Hazard Checklists (PHCs) are used to identify hazards that exist for a specific HCF location as part of the isotope processing activities (e.g., hot cell laboratory, quality control laboratory, etc.) or radioactive material storage location, A PHC is a location-based form of assessment that is, the facility is first subdivided into several distinctly separate locations or entities, then process-related hazards specific to each facility segment are identified. PHCs document energy sources and hazardous materials, potential accident initiators, and preventive or mitigative systems or practices present in each facility location. 

Demonstrate how to properly position the forklift to pick-up a load. Talk about the forklift hazards specific to your jobsite. Ask employees to describe forklift operator behavior that they felt was dangerous. 

Train your employees on the specific types of earthmoving, lifting, and hauling equipment that you use on yom jobsites. Discuss operating hazards specific to your jobsites. Ask employees to describe any close calls they may have witnessed or experienced. 

The main hazards specifically associated with the use of cryogens are severe or dangerous frostbite, explosions, asphyxiation, and other specific hazards associated with particular chemicals such as being flammable, corrosive, reactive, or toxic. 

Details are given of the type of hazard specific to many manufacturing processes for all urethane products, since in the fabrication of articles several techniques are often grouped together to make the whole process and each can contribute its own specific hazard against which precautions must be taken. 

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