Safety instructions/guidance

Promote accountability. Both the quantity and quality of participation in an incident analysis process depend on the numbers you use to evaluate success or failure. The success of any safety effort is ultimately determined by the bottom line outcome—the total recordable injury rate (TRIR), but this index provides no instructive guidance nor motivation to continue a particular safety process. 

Identified hazards can either be reduced at the root (e.g., reduction of inventory) or by introduction of protective systems (e.g., automatic emergency shutdown). The increased understanding of the chemistry and the process that is obtained from hazard evaluation procedures provides guidance for many other elements of process safety management as well (e.g., procedural instructions, emergency strategies, personnel training, and preventive maintenance). 

Dr, Ronald J. Willey of Northeastern University in Boston prepared an excellent 35miT slide training package entitled Seminar on Tank Failures. Professor Willey developed this instructional lecture material under the direction and guidance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Undergraduate Education Committee of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). ... 

With regard to guidance on selection of application software design methods and techniques, systems with a safety requirement up to SIL 3 should be designed in accordance with the instructions given in the supplier s safety manual as part of a system conforming with lEC 61508. For SIL 4 systems, the developer should additionally confirm that the selected methods do conform with the requirements of lEC 61508-3. 

Some suppliers of reagents may provide guidance or instructions for the safe use of these reactive chemicals, and you would be prudent to follow their guidelines. There may be specialized safety equipment or apparatus available for carrying out this type of reaction. Some companies such as Aldrich... 

Inexperienced workers reqnire lireqnent planned safety observations to establish exactly what they know and do not know about doing their work safely. Further instruction and guidance are nsnaUy the required procedures after observations show the need for additional safety training. 

Clearly the first thing to consider is that when you take somebody on new you need to train them and you have got the basic instructions in these publications. .. it is not sufficient just to hand them over, they need a lot of explanation for their guidance. But there shouldn t be any doubts and of course we need to make sure that knowledge is refreshed from time to time, (safety officer)... 

Informal safety instruction and guidance split over several documents, shares, workspaces, web pages, etc. Occasionally maintained. No specific references to hazards or mitigations. Procedures defined informally for OR and change assessment. 

Some suppliers of reagents may provide guidance or instructions for the safe use of these reactive chemicals, and you would be prudent to follow their guidelines. There may be specialized safety equipment or apparatus available for carrying out this type of reaction. Some companies such as Aldrich Chemical Co. sell these kinds of laboratory equipment. It is prudent to use shielding between you and reaction vessels. These operations should be carried out in a hood that is free of other experiments or bottles of chemicals or chemical waste. As with all operations with hazardous chemicals, use and keep on hand only the minimum quantities needed to carry out your research. 

Consult ANSI and NFPA standards as these sources are often considered authoritative on a particular safety topic and provide detailed information not otherwise found in OSHA regulations or other guidance. In addition, equipment manufacturers instructions often address inspection needs. 

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