Operation area categorisation

The team is responsible for operating the Categorisation Committee, which comprises members of Medsafe and the Foods Section of the MOH. The committee is convened when required to consider whether a product is covered by the provisions of the medicines or foods legislation and into which category (e.g., medicine, related product or dietary supplement) the product would fit. A guideline has been prepared by Medsafe to assist sponsor companies in this area (See Appendix 1). 

Approaches to blast protection can be categorised as active (deployed upon detection of an explosion) or passive (always present). An example of an active mitigation system is the water deluge system used on offshore oil and gas platforms [9]. Upon detection of a gas leak, the entire area is showered with carefiilly sized water droplets in order to prevent ignition and remove the energy from a vapour cloud explosion. An active system can only work if the imminent explosion can be detected and a suitable system deployed in time. These systems work offshore because the gas leak, which accumulates relatively slowly, can be detected easily and the water system deployed. A number of researchers have worked on the detection and deployment of mitigation devices for explosive detonations with military applications [10,11]. Such systems have yet to be deployed in the military, and (at the time of writing) no such detection systems are available for the case of explosive detonation on board an aircraft. For such a system to be viable, it would need to be robust and inexpensive to install and operate. 

Categorisation of waters and areas of operation Work boats - Categories of certification at sea (Moth, 1998) Example of risk mitigation measures for lifting operations employed by one contractor... 

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