Information sources government agencies

Today, Web sites are an essential source of information from government agencies, professional organizations, and commercial suppliers. Statistics, standards, patents, and other information that nsed to be difficnlt to identify and locate is now often just a few clicks away. Many journals are available in electronic editions, and the TRIS database (now TRID) is accessed online. Print resonrces remain important, however. As with any engineering discipline, handbooks, manuals, and textbooks are still critical information sources. 

It is difficult to identify causes and lessons learned in existing sources of process safety incident data because industry associations, government agencies, and academia generally do not collect this information. 

Sources of information Possible sources of scientific information include advocacy groups, the media, universities or other research organizations, government agencies, contract research, NGOs, and scientific publications. In the case of POPs decisionmakers have gotten scientific advice from international conferences the internet, and scientific journals. There are also professional organizations such as Stockholm Convention Implementation Office of SEPA (CIO). 

Because consumers get most of their information from the media (11, 12), responsible presentation of food safety issues is needed. When US newspaper editors, who cover food safety issues, were asked about where they receive the information they write about, government agencies and consumer groups received the highest scores as communicators with the media on food safety issues with 60% and 54%, respectively food manufacturers and processors received the lowest. When the editors were asked about who provides the best source of information, government agencies and universities both received scores of 77% in the credibility of information on food safety, whereas food manufacturers and processors were described as the least useful sources. 

Most productive sources of market information cited by government agency, except Facts for Industry based on period July 1949-February 1950 qualifications as noted in Table II also obtain. 

Valuable assistance in finding information can be obtained by consulting information intermediaries with subject expertise who can identify and access information resources unknown or unavailable locally. These individuals may be in local information centers or may be brokers who specialize in individual information services or creation of compilations of data for a fee. An example of this type of service is the Comprehensive Health and Environmental Monographs (CHEMS) division of Health and Environment International. This service creates detailed reports on the health and environmental effects of a chemical. Professional organizations, database producers, and government agencies can also be sources of experts as well as providers of direct information. An example of the former type of service is UNEP-Infoterra, an international referral and research organization of the... 

In 1949 a survey of basic information sources on plastics 41) was prepared by the office then known as the Office of Domestic Commerce. This survey lists publications of various agencies of the Department of Commerce as well as other government depart-... 

Lawrence, R. M., Sources of Information for Industrial Market Research, New York, Chemical Industries, McLean-Hunter Publications, 1947. Description of services and publications of various federal, state, and local government agencies. Special reference given to chemical process industries. 

To be able to assess the distribution of organic compounds among the different compartments in the environment one must have access to the solubility, vapor pressure, Henry s law constant, octanol-water partition coefficient, and pAa for an acid or base. In many cases, these values may be available in the literature and some of these sources will be cited. Government agencies often require that these physical chemical quantities be measured for compounds in commercial use. For example, pesticides cannot be registered for use without this information. So this data will be available. However, it is not unusual to hnd that compounds that are of interest are not the parent compound but a product contaminant or derivative. The most noted example of this situation would be the chlorinated dibenzodioxins originally... 

The objective of this review is to draw together and briefly discuss the available information on the health, safety and environmental aspects of the soluble silicates. The sources of information for this review include scientific publications, reports of regulatory bodies and government agencies, and the incidental records of a corporation which has manufactured soluble silicates for over 120 years( ). ... 

Department of Energy (DOE) - A federal government agency created in 1977, that is entrusted to contribute to the welfare of the United States by providing technical information, and a scientific and educational foundation for technology, policy and institutional leadership to achieve efficiency in energy use, diversity in energy sources, a more productive and competitive economy, improved environmental quality, and a secure national defense. 

In manufacturing, time study and predetermined motion time data are the major sources for obtaining standard data. In construction and white-collm environments, work sampling and man-hour reports are the principal means of information. Likewise, in certain government agencies, such as the post office and the military depots, work sampling and man-hour methods are used. 

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