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Disciplinary action may be appropriate if malicious or criminal intent is positively identified as a root cause. An example would be when an investigation reveals horseplay, practical jokes, fights, or even sabotage was among the root causes. These activities have no place in any workplace and are especially undesirable in the chemical processing industry. It is most likely that a company s employee handbook, human resources documents, or union contract addresses these situations and communicates the policy in advance of an incident. In short, the investi-... 

Subjecting all chemicals to all possible tests is logistically impossible, and the future of toxicity testing must lie in the development of techniques that will narrow the testing process so that highly toxic and relatively nontoxic compounds can be identified early and either banned or permitted unrestricted use without undue waste of time, funds, and human resources. These vital commodities could then be concentrated on compounds whose fate and effects are less predictable. 

Human Resource. This is identified in terms of the technical contributions needed during the project s lifetime, the special skills or knowledge required from the people involved. How many people required, for what period of time and an estimate of the total cost needs to be made. 

The human resourcing of the project defines WHO is actually going to carry out the WHAT of the project. The responsibilities for each aspect of the project are assigned to individual members of the team. This also allows any other responsibilities, which are outside their direct control, to be identified. On this basis the specific requirements of staff from each department or work group required for the programme to be a success will become clear. This definition and allocation of responsibilities can be illustrated in many ways. One of the simplest representations is a matrix, based on the activities identified in the work breakdown analysis and the functional responsibility within that activity (Table D2). 

CPhA has taken the leadership position in addressing the shortage problem in the profession by initiating the development of a proposal for a labor market study to help pharmacy understand the current manpower shortage and its causes and develop tools to forecast future needs. Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) commissioned an initial phase of the study, which is a literature search and key informant interviews to identify gaps in the available data. This study, A Situational Analysis of Human Resource Issues in the Pharmacy Profession in Canada, is available on the CPhA web site. The next step is development of a proposal for funding from HRDC for a comprehensive human resources study of the pharmacy profession in Canada to develop the foundation required to properly manage current and future pharmacy human resources. 

Figure 5 depicts the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence (1) leadership (2) strategic planning (3) customer and market focus (4) information and analysis (5) human resource focus (6) process management and (7) business results (overarching—customer- and market-focused strategy and action plans). Compare and contrast these variables to the seven identified in Collins and Porras. 

Education/Training Needs Identified Cost/Benefit Analysis Human Resource Structure Identified Workforce Estimates... 

Activities to improve quality include the assignment of various people in the oigtmizadon to work on common causes and special causes. The appropriate people to identify specieil causes are usually different than those needed to identify common causes. The same is true of those needed to remove causes. Removal of common causes is the responsibility of management, often with the aid of experts in the process such as engineers, chemists, and systems analysts. Special causes can frequently be handled at a local level by those working in the process, such as supervisors and operators. Without a knowledge of the concepts of common and special causes, it is difficult to allocate human resources efficiently to improve quality. 

In 1987, the National Science Foundation initiated a program of "Private Sector Partnerships to Improve Science and Mathematics Education to draw on the intellectual resources of the private sector. Since two-thirds of all scientists and engineers in the United States are employed in private industry, where they carry out three-fourths of all U. S. research and development, the private sector constitutes a major intellectual resource on which the educational world should be drawing. With over 18 million now committed to more than 70 projects, the staff of the Education and Human Resources Directorate of the National Science Foundation has had ample opportunity to observe how successful partnerships between educational institutions and private sector firms and organizations can be. Likewise, we have also been able to identify factors which can keep such partnerships from accomplishing as much as anticipated. 

Safety professionals often must identify the individual worker s employment status from the human resources department or other department, in order to identify the unique employer-employee relationship of individuals working in the woikplace. Safety professionals should consider the below listed basic questions, which can be utilized to assist in identifying the type of employment relationship that is present in most situations. Safety professionals should identify the following ... 

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