Organic resources

Organize resources to implement the plans for quality control. 

As stated in Part 2 Chapter 1, maintenance is concerned with retaining something in or restoring something to a state in which it can perform its required function. Quality systems comprise the organization, resources, and processes as well as the documentation needed for achieving quality, so you need to maintain more than the documentation. 

It is advisable to identify all your quality records within your procedures. This will avoid arguments on what is or is not a quality record, because once you have chosen to identify a record as a quality record you have invoked all the requirements that are addressed in this chapter. Any document which describes the achieved features and characteristics of a product or service are quality records. Those records which will demonstrate that work has been planned, organized, resourced, monitored, verified, and corrected when found deficient are also quality records. The note following the requirement acknowledges that quality records can be in hard copy or held on a computer disk or magnetic tape. Should both forms be held, you will need to declare which are the masters and provide the appropriate security to prevent inadvertent loss or damage (see below). 

Organizations thrive or fail on trust. Trust is a precious commodity impossible to quantitate on a bottom line, fragile, and, when damaged, difficult to repair. When there is trust in an organization, resources and information are shared freely and efficiently. Ironically, during the "efficiency drives" of the recent past, the employment security that once was the cornerstone of trust in scientific organizations was eliminated. The analytical manager must therefore establish trust within his operation despite the uncertain employment environment. 

Vanlauwe B, Idrissa B, Diels J, Sanginga N, Merckx R (2008) Plant age and rock phosphate effects on the organic resource quality of herbaceous legume residues and their N and P release dynamics. Agron Sustain Dev 28 429-437... 

The third and fourth disks include Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) information. These disks contain data bases on Resource Organizations, Resource People, Case Law, Jurisprudence, Fatalities, Mining Incidents, and ADISCAN. Furthermore, information on Noise Levels, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSHTEC) Non-Ionizing Radiation Levels, and a Document Information Directory System is readily retrievable. These CD-ROM materials are available from the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety, 250 Main Street East, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 1H6. 

Inter-firm collaboration, by linking knowledge domains across organizations and across institutional environments, enables firms to enhance their creativity and to grow organically. Resource-based view and knowledge-based view perspectives cite inter-firm collaboration... 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Biological Waste Management and Organic Resources Laboratory,... 

To ensure the resources necessary to achieve the goals and strategy of the organization. Resource planning can be comprehensive (all resources needed to achieve goals and strategic plan of the organization) or can focus on a specific type of resource. 

I like to support companies that not only provide quality organic ingredients but also support a greater environmental philosophy—helping the environment and communities surrounding them. As a natural extension of this philosophy, the products these companies create go beyond just attaining USDA certification. Here is a list of my favorite organic resources. 

Alkanes are the world s most abundant organic resource. Olefins, by contrast, are relatively scarce they are, however, the most important class of intermediate in the commodity chemical industry [1], Thus the ability to convert alkanes to alkenes is a reaction with tremendous potential utility. Likewise, in view of the obvious importance of the carbon-carbon double bond functionality in the synthesis of complex organic molecules, the ability to introduce unsaturation into unfunctionalized alkyl groups is also a very alluring goal. 

In December 1988, the Organization Resources Counselors, Inc., in order to assist the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), prepared a report entitled Recommendations for Process Hazards Management of Substances with Catastrophic Au Potential. [131 This document was drafted to help OSHA revise standards for handling ref nos. hazardous materials. 

Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. (ORC) is a Washington, D.C.—based private industry group with many representatives from the chemical industry. The ORC agreed to help because they were concerned about another world-wide disaster that may cause the United States Congress to quickly develop legislation which may be ineffective. The ORC was also concerned about the proliferation of similar regulations at the state level and they felt a performance standard was essential if the law was to be effective. [17]... 

The Organization Resources Counselors (ORC) document emphasized the application of management control systems to facilities processing highly hazardous chemicals. The... 

Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. (ORC), Recommendations for Process Hazards Management of Substances with Catastrophic Potential, ORC, Washington, D.C., December 1988. 

Palm, C.A. Gachengo, C.N. Delve, R.J. Cadisch, G. and K.E. Giller (2001) Organic inputs for soil fertility management in tropical agroecosystems application of an organic-resource database.- Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 83, 27-42. 

Forum for Organic Resource Management and Agricultural Technologies (2005) Organic resource management in Kenya. http //formatkenya.org/ormbook/chapters/TOC.htm... 

SOM is composed of a continuum of organic resources from fresh plant residues to stabilized organic matter (OM) or humus (Stevenson, 1994). Although this definition of SOM includes intact plant litter, in this review we will often distinguish between decomposition of litter on the soil surface and decomposition/stabilization of OM within the mineral soil. Within the mineral soil, SOM is often divided into four categories the light fraction, microbial biomass (discussed above), dissolved organic matter (DOM), and stable humic substances. 

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