Licence to operate

Spedficalions regarding pharmaceutical premises, personnel and procedures must be followed by pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers if they wish to obtain and retain their licence to operate. By means of these licences, dmg regulatory authorities control the activities of pharmaceutical manufacturers, importers and distributors and companies engaged in dmg promotion and advertising. 

Table 6.1 Legal and professional requirements for obtaining a licence to operate... 

There is a risk that on a project s conclusion your licence to operate in different areas of the organization may be revoked. At the end of your allotted time, you are. so to speak. 

The converse of this situation also applies. The company should have a system in place, usually assigned to R D, which thoroughly checks its own proposed new products and processes, to ensure that it will not infringe somebody else s intellectual property once they are commercialised. If there are conflicting patent rights then a licence to operate will need to be sought from the inventors. 

It will take a considerable effort to recover. But that recovery is in the sights of many employees, and central to that is a firmly held commitment to sustainable development. Only by continuing to focus on achieving a strong economic, environmental, and social performance can the expectations of shareholders, customers, and society at large be met, licences to operate retained, and the damage to the Group s reputation repaired. 

The interaction of the profession with the community it seeks to serve can be seen from the perspective of a licence to operate to companies first, but less directly, to the profession itself. However, unless this is placed in an historical context, the message may appear apologetic. 

The balance between forced and voluntary interactions with the community, in the light of stakeholder theory, defines our licence to operate. Nowadays, the number of stakeholders is drastically increasing. The example given below illustrates this multiplicity of interactions. 

Practising chemical engineers must commit to the London Communique in order to retain their licence to operate. 

A commitment to the London Communiqu6 in order to retain a licence to operate and an understanding that proactive community interaction comes with the territory. 

I. Thomson, We live in interesting times — a social licence to operate essential for success in exploration, Keynote talk at the Cordilleran Round up, Vancouver, lanuary 1999. 

L2 Environment and public relations. The consequences of waste generation go way beyond the potential for introducing chemicals into the environment. The costs of preventing emissions or coping with their consequences needs little further discussion. Unless these aspects are dealt with adequately, in the current political and regulatory climates, the licence to operate will be withdrawn. 

FBTR is a 40 MWt/13.2 MWe, mixed carbide fiielled, sodium cooled, loop type reactor. It has been provided with two once through serpentine type Steam Generators (SG) in each of the two secondary loops. The reactor has 100% steam dump capacity, in order to continue reactor operation when TG is not available. The reactor achieved its first criticality in Oct 85. Since then, it is operated at various power levels in stages upto 10.2 MWt. The small carbide core with 25 fuel subassemblies, has been licenced.to operate upto 10.5 MWt with 320 W/cm linear heat rating of fuel. TG will be commissioned shortly. 

As well as the formal structure of regulation, ideas from the field of corporate social responsibility tell us that any industry or company also has to have an informal licence to operate - ie the public has to be broadly supportive of what that industry or company is doing. Arguably, the railway industry has come close to losing this informal licence at times in the recent past. 

In granting a licence to operate Part A processes, the Environment Agency must include conditions to ensure that ... 

Incorporating human error in case for safety risk assessment For many years there has been a requirement in the nuclear industry for plants to develop a Safety Case and have it approved by regulators in order to obtain a licence to operate. The Safety Case is, essentially, a very comprehensive quantified risk assessment based on the aggregated probability of an event (for example, the escape of radiation) against a defined benchmark probability. Once the licence has been granted, the Safety Case has to be formally reviewed at defined intervals. 

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