Importance of Inspection

Excellent materials selection, design, and detailed specification for construction of a plant or a piece of equipment may be set forth, but they can be essentially meaningless if they are not followed. Proper inspection is a must - particularly for critical components operating under hazardous conditions. Inspectors should scrutinize critically during fabrication and construction, not Umiting inspection to the final product only. In addition to being capable and well qualified, inspectors should have substantial authority. Inspectional aspects are as important as design and material selection. 

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Promote the importance of inspections Members at every organizational level must understand the purpose of hazard control inspections, audits, and survey. 

The effect of rainfall on an excavation and the importance of inspecting them on a daily basis. 

Explained the importance of inspecting the harness for damage, wear, and deterioration. 

The importance of inspection during winding may be reduced by computerized control. Visual inspection can detect filament out of position and uneven resin distribution, indicating variation in tension. 

The great variety of inspection applications required the QAP system to perform relative measurements in judgeing certain conditions and not to restrict the user to dictated inspection conditions. One important example for MPI is for example the decision whether the magnetic particle suspension can be used or has to be changed. 

The candidate tollers security policy should emphasize the importance of protecting people, property and the operational practices against loss by intentional destruction or theft. During the site visit, check to see if appropriate methods are taken to control entiy and movement of people and vehicles as a security measure. One telltale sign is that you may be denied access to an area because of another company s confidential process. Though an interference, it affirms a sound security practice. Determine whether security inspections are being held during off-duty hours. 

In the last chapter we discussed the importance of well-defined roles. This holds true for the inspection team. For many larger sites a union contract may exist that may specify who participates in the inspec-tion/audit process. At smaller sites, this may be open-ended. We believe that the personnel make-up of an inspection team should depend on the size, complexity, number of employees, and on-site hazards at the site in question. Again, preplanning coupled with a common-sense approach should be the driver. 

Primary emphasis is often placed on the frequently occurring initiators, but they may not present the largest public health risk. To gain a perception of the relative importance of various initiators, Table 6.3-6 from Taylor et al, (1986) shows an ordering of the accident initiators for Indian Point 3 by Inspection Importance (Section 2.8.2) which considers both frequency of occurrence and health effects based on of one or more latent fatalities. 

As stated previously everything should be passed through a receipt inspection. However, in order to relate the degree of inspection to the importance of the item, you should categorize purchases, an example of which is as follows ... 

Several other things were wrong. The vent was not heated its location made it difficult to inspect. Most important of all, neither manager, supervisors, nor operators recognized that if the vent choked, the air pressure was sufficient to burst the tank. Nevertheless, if the 6-in. vent had not been blanked, the incident would not have occuiTed (see also Section 12.1). 

For installations with regular inspection and maintenance, a factor of 5 per cent minimum should be adequate. The importance of this is obvious when one remembers that while a tool or appliance may use a considerable amount of air, it is only working intermittently, whereas any leakage, even from a small hole, is both continuous and significant. 

The selection of inspection points is of paramount importance, and factors to be considered have been outlined by Abramchuk as follows ... 

When the drug is given IV, the nurse inspects the needle insertion site for signs of extravasation or infiltration (see Chap. 2). In addition, it is important to inspect the needle insertion site and the area above the site several times a day for signs of redness, which may indicate thrombophlebitis (inflammation of a vein with formation of a clot within the vein) or phlebitis (inflammation of a vein), if either problem occurs, the nurse contacts the primary health care provider and the IV must be discontinued and restarted in another vein, preferably in another extremity. 

The atomic temperature factor, or B factor, measures the dynamic disorder caused by the temperature-dependent vibration of the atom, as well as the static disorder resulting from subtle structural differences in different unit cells throughout the crystal. For a B factor of 15 A2, displacement of an atom from its equilibrium position is approximately 0.44 A, and it is as much as 0.87 A for a B factor of 60 A2. It is very important to inspect the B factors during any structural analysis a B factor of less than 30 A2 for a particular atom usually indicates confidence in its atomic position, but a B factor of higher than 60 A2 likely indicates that the atom is disordered. 

A revision of the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, passed in 1938, added several provisions that impacted the food industry. Among those provisions were authorized factory inspections and the authority for court injunction to the previous seizure and prosecution actions (Janssen, 1992). Adulterated food was now defined as Sec. 402, A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for food, or if it has been prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health. The importance of the whereby clause is the concept that a food product need not be contaminated physically to be considered adulterated, but has been exposed to conditions that may have resulted in contamination of the food. This situation is vastly different from that which existed at the time the 1906 Food and Drug Act was passed. 

FDA regulation of, 21 578-579 gelatin in, 12 442 high pressure treatment of, 13 436 processed, 18 32-35 shipping containers for, 18 37 Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), 18 538-539 21 591 minor use pesticides under, 18-539-540 Food refrigeration, 21 558-566 importance of, 21 559 Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), 13 17... 

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