Language of safety

LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF SAFETY SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND LABELS... 

Fundamentally, the language of safety professionals should focus on hazard identification and analysis and assessing the risks derived from those hazards, followed by giving prioritized counsel on improvements on safety-related management issues. It should be understood that the entirety of purpose of those responsible for safety, regardless of their titles, is to manage their endeavors with respect to hazards so that the risks deriving from them are at acceptable levels. 

If safety is an output of an injunction produced by social actors, then injunction would be a metaconcept for safety, thus a concept on which the language of safety relies on to make meaning through experienced actions. 

Of these sources, Kirk-Othmer s Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is particularly recommended for questions on chemistry and on end uses. For information on properties and on toxicity and handling hazards, Patty s Industrial Hygiene, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), and the Aldrich catalog are very nseful. Questions on industrial chemistry should be directed to Ullman s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, and the texts by Chenier, Heaton, and White. Hawley s Condensed Chemical Dictionary is valuable as a source for dehnitions of the terms (language) of chemistry. 

The use of proper clothing and protective equipment is mandated not only by common sense and worker safety laws and policies, but also by GLP. The GLP regulations 40 CFR 160.1(a) and 160.3(4), state that attire appropriate to the task must be worn. The type of protective equipment appropriate to the trial must be determined by the Study Director and local management. The Latin American Crop Protection Association (LACPA) is an excellent source of safety training videos and brochures in the Spanish language. 

Highly toxic air pollutants fall under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. Unlike criteria pollutants, these hazardous air pollutants must be controlled to protect the public health with an "ample margin of safety." Implied in this language is the belief in a discrete threshold of exposure below which no effects occur and from which a safety margin can be measured. Subsequent interpretations, however, indicated clearly that Congress did not equate safeguarding the public health with complete risk elimination. 

Once past the discovery and initial development stages, the safety assessment aspects of the process become extremely tightly connected with the other aspects of the development of a compound, particularly the clinical aspects. These interconnections are coordinated by project management systems. At many times during the early years of the development process, safety assessment constitutes the rate-limiting step it is, in the language of project management, on the critical path. 

Patient information sheet Concise summary in plain language of the most important information about a particular drug. Includes an Alert when appropriate to communicate an important, and often emerging, drug safety issue Patients and/or consumers, lay caregivers, and interested members of the general public... 

In common language, security is a synonym of safety. In the context of this book, security is devoted to the field of property protection against theft or incursion. 

Several databases deal with classifications and with safety data sheets, as a simple search on the Internet will reveal. However, there is no internationally coordinated database. An extensive listing of safety data sheet sites is available (MSDSonline 2009). A major challenge is to make all of this information available in the languages of the users. 

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