Inspectors’ duties

Failure by an independent inspection agency of specification cylinders to satisfy all inspector duties, including inspecting materials, and verifying materials of construction and cylinders comply with applicable specifications. 178.35(c)(1), (2), (3) 5,000 to 16,500. 

A plant engineer may become involved with an inspector from the HSE when he arrives on site to carry out an inspection of the works under powers given to the Executive by Section 20 of the Act. The HSE will visit at any reasonable time, or at any time where the situation may be dangerous in the inspector s opinion. He may take with him a police officer if he has reasonable cause to apprehend any serious obstruction in the execution of his duty. 

Having carried out an inspection of the works, the inspector has powers under Section 21 to serve an improvement notice if, in his opinion, a person is contravening one or more of the relevant statutory provisions, or has contravened one or more of those provisions in circumstances that make it likely that the contravention will continue or be repeated. The person concerned then has a duty to remedy the contravention or as the case may be, the matters occasioning it within such a period as may be specified in the notice. 

The National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) in the USA has a comprehensive process for the training and certification of painting inspectors. The following are their typical duties ... 

The employment of full-time security staff either in-house personnel or contracted out to a professional guarding company (preferably one that is a member of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) Manned Services Inspectorate) can make a significant contribution to overall security. Consideration should be given to the range of duties to be performed by security staff, their location, and how they will interface with other security measures and external agencies. 

Inspection schedule It is not unusual for those who employ such firms to ask for an inspection schedule as suggested in (4) above, prior to making an appointment. Some large organisations lay down in general terms the numbers of inspectors and how they require the work to be inspected. However, the inspection schedule is not only the key to what may be expected from individual firms, it is also useful in summarising the inspector s duties and in informing the contractor as to how his work will be checked. 

Apart from his liaison, progressing and reporting duties, the inspector of protective-coating operations has three quite distinct areas of operation ... 

As already stated, it must be one of the inspector s duties to see that the materials delivered conform to the specification, or to any subsequent modification which may have been agreed. Similar tests to those outlined above may be carried out, either on site or in the laboratory. 

My duties for the Republic are weighty and consume much of my time, the inspector of meats declared in his sonorous orator s voice. The matter you are investigating was settled, so far as I am concerned—so far as anyone in Venice except my dear mother is concerned—many years ago, and its resurrection now can serve no purpose. Moreover, I have an important visitor due in a few minutes. 

The examination of meat concerns in the first place the food inspector, whose duty it is to determine that the meat is good for food and has not been obtained from diseased animals. The analyst s task is usually to determine the nutritive value of the meat by estimating its principal components and to test for the presence of preservatives or colouring matters. The more common chemical tests and determinations are as follows ... 

The Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for providing the military forces to prevent war and protect the security of the United States. The DoD includes the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, three Military Departments, nine Unified Combatant Commands, the DoD Inspector General, 15 Defense Agencies, and seven DoD Field Activities. The three Military Departments include the Army, Navy, which includes the Marine Corps, and the Air Force. The Department has an annual budget of 370 billion and has 1.5 million active duty personnel and employs 650000 civilian employees. 

These Guidelines are intended to offer practical assistance to all concerned with the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients in order to ensure compliance with the Basic Standards of GMP and, as necessary, with the specialized Annexes thereto. They indicate the main areas of interest and the expectations of the various inspectorates in the performance of their duties in respect of manufacturers. The Guidelines should be taken in the sense this should be done in order to comply with the principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) . Methods and procedures equivalent to those described may be equally acceptable. 

Enforcement powers. Compliance with OELs is a legal requirement under the COSHH Regulations. Under the HSW Act 1974 HSE inspectors have powers to issue two types of enforcement notice - an improvement notice or a prohibition notice - as well as powers to prosecute for criminal offences in the courts. Improvement notices are nomally used to instruct duty holders to remedy a situation in which an inspector believes that there has been a breach of the law resulting in a risk to the health or safety of persons that the law is intended to protect. The duty-holder is normally requir to remedy tiie situation within a specified time period in accordance wath the requirements laid out in the notice. Prohibition notices are normally issued where inspectors fell there is m imminent and serious risk to health and safety. They have the effect of prohibiting... 

An additional factor in the decline of improvement notices in the mid-1990s was the introduction of requirements on inspectors to issue a notice of intent before an improvement notice was issued. This may have had the effect of obviating the need to issue an improvement notice in some cases since duty-holders would have made the necessary improvements under the notice of intent. This requirement was removed in 1997. 

Under Division 2 rules, the code inspector s duties are not meant to be all-inclusive. The code inspector must determine that the required documents have been prepared and that procedure and acceptance standards conform to Division 2 but he is not required to ascertain, for instance, that the design calculations are correct. 

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