Incidents potential

For jet fuels, the elimination of free water using filters and coalescers by purging during storage, and the limit of 5 ppm dissolved water are sufficient to avoid incidents potentially attributable to water contamination formation of micro-crystals of ice at low temperature, increased risk of corrosion, growth of micro-organisms. 

Societal Risk - This represents a measure of the risk to a group of people, including tlie risk of incidents potentially affecting more tlian one person. Individual risk (see above) is generally not significantly affected by the number of people involved in an incident. The risk to a person at a particular location depends on tlie probability of occurrence of the luizardous event, and on the probability of an adverse imptict at that location should the event occur. 

Business Aspect Actual Impact of the Incident Potential Impact of the Incident... 

The previously discussed StarLink episode is perhaps the most widely evaluated incidence potentially leading to potential health effects associated with GMOs. Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in a retrospective study, the US FDA hypothesized that exposure to the Bt Cry9c protein could be cause for allergic responses. However, the results of the FDA research concluded that there was no evidence of GMO-mediated allergenicity subsequent to potential exposure to the StarLink corn. 

Record review revealed a by now familiar finding 11 % of patients suffered an adverse event, with about a tenth (11 cases) of these being serious and preventable. However, 23% of patients reported an adverse event and there was little concordance between the two methods. Patient reports revealed an additional 21 serious and preventable events (Table 15.1), in addition to the 11 found in medical records, thus tripling the rate revealed by record review. The true rate of incidents potentially reportable by patients may be higher still, as some interviews took place several months after discharge and patients who died or were very sick post discharge were excluded from the study. As the examples show, many of the incidents reported by patients were serious untoward events that should have been described in the medical record. 

The application of programs and countermeasures, e.g., behaviors and conditions, designed to reduce incidents or incident potential within a system or organization. 

A designation of relative incident potential based on probability of incident occurrence. 

At our company, we are committed to the implementation and maintenance of a near miss reporting/rectification system so that everyone can identify and report near misses, unsafe acts/conditions, rank the potential, and prescribe corrective action to reduce risk. By getting to the near miss incidents, potential losses can be prevented before rather than after the event. 

Scenarios are used to highlight unwanted incidents, potential accident or loss of science in a particular project or activity. The scenarios are based on findings from the checklist, discussion with the design team to identify conditions where there are some unease or based on discussing key root causes from known documented accidents. The scenarios with errors and recoveries are modelled by using a simple STEP analysis, where critical steps are... 

Established procedures for evaluating causes of incidents should be in place at all companies and organizations. Incident analysis should be followed by the implementation of controls to prevent future similar occurrences. Comprehensive procedures should also include the analysis of near incidents. Potential causes can be controlled before an incident occurs. All incidents that result in fatalities or serious injuries to more than one person should have the analysis conducted under the direction of corporate safety and with legal advice. 

Booth, M.J., 1991. The incident potential matrix. Paper presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers First International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment, The Hague, 10-14 November 1991. 

An LTI is a lost time incident, mentioned earlier as an accident which causes one or more days away from work. A non-LTI injury does not result in time away from work. A near hit (often called a near miss) is an incident which causes no injury, but had the potential to do so (e.g. a falling object hitting the ground, but missing personnel). An example of an unsafe act would be a poorly secured ladder, where no incident occurs, but which potentially could have been the cause of an incident. 

APS Appearance potential spectroscopy (see AES) Intensity of emitted x-ray or Auger electrons is measured as a function of incident electron energy Surface composition... 

One group has successfiilly obtained infonnation about potential energy surfaces without measuring REPs. Instead, easily measured second derivative absorption profiles are obtained and linked to the fiill RRS spectrum taken at a single incident frequency. In this way, the painstaking task of measuring a REP is replaced by carefiilly recording the second derivative of the electronic absorption spectrum of the resonant transition [, 59],... 

Classical ion trajectory computer simulations based on the BCA are a series of evaluations of two-body collisions. The parameters involved in each collision are tire type of atoms of the projectile and the target atom, the kinetic energy of the projectile and the impact parameter. The general procedure for implementation of such computer simulations is as follows. All of the parameters involved in tlie calculation are defined the surface structure in tenns of the types of the constituent atoms, their positions in the surface and their themial vibration amplitude the projectile in tenns of the type of ion to be used, the incident beam direction and the initial kinetic energy the detector in tenns of the position, size and detection efficiency the type of potential fiinctions for possible collision pairs. 

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