Health and safety procedures

Ascertain that each accident or illness was investigated promptly to determine the cause and make necessary changes in health and safety procedures. 

Note that the following procedures only provide a framework in which specific health and safety procedures for the individual works or premises may be prepared. A senior member of the company or the person nominated as responsible for health and safety in the organization should write the foreword to a company s procedure. To emphasize its importance it should also include a part of the company s health and safety statement. It should be followed by an instruction such as You are required to read the following procedures carefully and comply with the sections relevant to your workplace . 

Irradiate WT and CD 154 NIH3T3 using an appropriate source of y radiation and follow all the health and safety procedures of your institution. Lfsually a dose of 30 Gray is sufficient to block cell proliferation (see Note 6). Cells can be used immediately after irradiation or frozen in 90% heat/inactivated FBS supplemented with 10% DMSO and stored at -80°C or in liquid nitrogen for short- and long-term storage, respectively. 

The study must be approved by the local authorities, and blood samples must be obtained from patients after informed consent in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki (34). The present study was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of University College Hospital Galway. Extreme care should be taken when handling human blood sample. The presence in the sample of at least hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus should be tested. If this is not possible, treat the samples as if they would be infected. The personnel handling the human blood samples should be vaccinated at least for hepatitis B, and they must follow all the health and safety procedures of their institution. 

Ensuring that workers are properly following health and safety procedures. 

They focus on risk assessments and how to use them affectively to identify potential hazards and risks, preventive measures that can be applied and the management and surveUlance of health and safety procedures that should be followed in the event of serious or knminent danger. The Regulations require employers to ... 

It is particularly important to check that the plug top and cables of handheld electrically powered tools and extension leads are in good condition. Damaged plug tops and cables must be repaired before you use them. All electrical power tools of 110 and 230 V must be tested with a portable appliance tester (PAT) in accordance with the company s health and safety procedures, but probably at least once each year. 

As discussed in Chapter 3, Subpart S of 30 CFR 250 requires the lessee to develop, implement, and maintain a SEMS for offshore oil and gas operations on the basis of API s RP 75. This goal-based SMS became effective on November 15,2011, and moved the regulations for offshore oil and gas operations from a primarily prescriptive system to a more risk-based system under which operators were required to demonstrate that the health and safety procedures described in the SEMS plan accomplished the stated goals. The shift away from a more prescriptive system was due in part to the inadequacy of an inspection process that encouraged compliance with checklists of potential incidents of noncompliance (PINCs) that tended to focus on preventing hardware-related mechanical failures. Previous reports indicated that most accidents occurring on the OCS were due to human factors or to not following proper procedures (Bea and Moore 1992 NRC 1990 TRB 2012). The rules in SEMS (for... 

Health and safety procedures do not provide for A written manual Safety meetings Adequate housekeeping Preventive maintenance Safety inspections Accident investigations Job safety analysis Medical surveillance Reports... 

The importance of these was highlighted by the other most frequently cited factor regarded as weighing against health and safety, namely business pressures . Senior personnel spelt out that the financial costs of health and safety were a negative influence, especially in the face of business pressures to reduce costs and increase productivity. They also felt that cumbersome health and safety procedures could increase the difficulty of the job for employees and lead to non-compliance ... 

Compliance with health and safety procedures should be considered a condition of employment. The question of how to deal with people who do not follow procedures must be addressed. Points which should be considered in establishing an approach to this issue are ... 

The role of the health and safety adviser is to provide specialist information to managers in the organization and to monitor the effectiveness of health and safety procedures. The adviser is not responsible for health and safety or its implementation, that is the role of the line managers. 

The most important factor affecting the culture is the commitment to health and safety from the top of an organization. This commitment may be shown in many different ways. It needs to have a formal aspect in terms of an organizational structure, job descriptions and a health and safety policy, but it also needs to be apparent during crises or other stressful times. The health and safety procedures may be circumvented or simply forgotten when production or other performance targets are threatened. 

There are many other examples of written communications in health and safety, such as employee handbooks, company codes of practice, minutes of safety committee meetings and health and safety procedures. 

The arrangements for dealing with violence should be included in the safety policy and managed like any other aspect of the health and safety procedures. Action plans should be drawn up and followed through using the consultation arrangements as appropriate. The police should also be consulted to ensure that they are happy with the plan and are prepared to play their part in providing back up and the like. 

Power station environments can vary from clean area work spaces such as control rooms, to workshop-type environments. Power plants can be hazardous health and safety procedures are strictly followed and given high priority. Starting salaries for new engineering graduate are typically in the range 24- 28k. 

In addition, the contractor s employee was seriously Injured. This might have been avoided If the company had accepted their full responsibility and looked beyond its own staff in terms of the application of health and safety procedures. 

Your department head is responsible for establishing and maintaining a work environment that fosters the appropriate health and safety procedures in all activities of the department. 

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