Organisations high hazard

Call for a phase-out of pesticides classed by the World Health Organisation as being either Extremely Hazardous (WHO la) or Highly Hazardous (WHO lb) as well as the organochlorine endosulfan (WHO 11) ... 

The sector should put in place arrangements to ensure that good practice in these areas, incorporating experience from other high hazard sectors, is shared openly between organisations. Part 5, paragraphs 251-258... 

HSE s Information Sheet Organisational change and major accident hazards CHIS/ o sets out a framework for managing organisational changes, and is recommended for high-hazard industries. 

A low severity hazard might, for example, be one that is most likely to cause an interruption to production, or inconvenience to the workforce or people living near the plant. A medium level of severity could be a hazard likely to cause injuries to people. A high level of severity is one where the outcome of the hazard is probably one or more fatalities. A hazard may also be measured in financial terms from low severity (small financial implications) to high severity (crippling financial loss to an organisation). 

Common Data Source Approach. Another approach is to use a common source of data for benchmarking a set of chemicals. Examples of potential data sources include Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) from product manufacturers, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), the International Uniform Chemical Information Database (lUClID), the High Rroduction Volume Information System (HRVIS), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Screening Information Dataset (SIDS), and the Canadian Domestic Substances list... 

Reported issues which cannot be resolved locally warrant escalation to the manufacturer. This critical interaction is an opportunity to ensure that the manufacturer addresses the concern with an appropriate level of priority too low and the hazard persists for longer than is reasonable, too high and valuable resources are diverted inappropriately. Healthcare organisations can greatly assist manufacturers in providing the salient information that is needed to ... 

Clearly, there is a need to measure sources of variation in safety culture perceptions relating to individual and hospital characteristics within hospitals, in order to implement targeted interventions (Jackson et al. 2010). For instance, it is hypothesised that members with the same educational background share a common set of cultural features. In addition, hospitals comprise many different types of wards and units, with a high diversity in offered services, patient populations, organisational stractures and protocols, which might explain variability inpatient safety culture perceptions. So it can be assumed that safety culture is associated with specific professions and with the levels of complexity and intrinsic hazards associated with healthcare delivered in different work areas (Singer et al. 2009). 

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