Other Joint Committees

In other joint committees, there may be either more employee participants (for example, at construction sites where several different trade unions represent employees) or more management participants (especially where safety, medical, and industrial hygiene professionals are counted as management). The top management at the workplace frequently chairs these conunittees. In other cases these committees are employees who are elected by the committee itself [7]. They work by consensus and do not take formal votes. Their usual functions are similar to those of the joint labor-management committees. 

These committees are usually union safety committees, with membership determined by the union. Some workplaces with more than one union will have more than one union safety conunittee. The committee operates without management and meets regularly with management to discuss safety issues. At these meetings, the committee raises concerns. 

At non-union sites the central safety committee may consist of the site manager and a member of the top management. In recent years, some companies have discovered that it is helpful to have employees on the committee. Some sites rotate employees on this committee so that all employees can participate in safety planning. At other sites, management selects the employees for their experience and achievements in other safety management systems [7]. 

The central safety committee is an oversight committee with an interest in every part of the safety program. It sometimes serves as the hazard correction tracking management system. It is sometimes known as a follow-up committee. In this case, the committee receives reports of all inspections, incident investigations, and hazards reported by employees, and makes sure that all reported hazards are tracked until they are resolved [7]. 

Safety observers usually work with the area supervisor to get hazards corrected. Normally, they do their inspection alone. Some companies periodically bring together their safety observers to brainstorm problems or ideas that extend beyond the individual work areas. For your safety 

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A computer file of about 19,000 peak wavenumbers and intensities, along with search software, is distributed by the Infrared Data Committee of Japan (IRDC). Donated spectra, which are evaluated by the Coblentz Society in coUaboration with the Joint Committee on Atomic and Molecular Physical Data (JCAMP), are digitized and made avaUable (64). Almost 25,000 ir spectra are avaUable on the SDBS system developed by the NCLl as described. A project was initiated at the University of California, Riverside, in 1986 for the constmction of a database of digitized ftir spectra. The team involved also developed algorithms for spectra evaluation (75). Other sources of spectral Hbraries include Sprouse Scientific, Aston Scientific, and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). 

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) began work in 2000 to develop and provide advice to the Codex Alimentarius Commission on microbiological aspects of food safety. In addition to providing risk assessments, JEMRA develops guidance on related areas such as data collection and the application of risk assessment. JEMRA works most closely with the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, but has also provided advice to other Codex committees, such as the Committee on Fish and Fishery Products. 

The projects were divided into two categories, one on the occurrence and recovery of petroleum, and the other on its composition and properties. Mr. Teagle, chairman of the Board of the API in March 1931, appointed two advisory committees to be known as the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Research on the Composition and Properties of Petroleum (ACFRCPP) and the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Research on the Occurrence and Recovery of Petroleum (ACFRORP). These committees replaced the two earher joint committees. 

Joint labor-management committees are a popular method of employee participation. Other types of committees also have been used successfully to allow employee participation. At many unionized facih-ties, employee safety committees (with members selected by the union or elected by employees) work alone, with little direct management participation, on various tasks. In other workplaces, employees participate on a central safety committee. Some worksites use employees or joint committees for specific purposes, such as conducting workplace surveys, investigating incidents, training new employees, and implementing behavioral-based safety (BBS) systems, etc. [7]. 

In 1938, Szent-Gyorgyi reported that subsequent tests failed to confirm the results of his earlier experiments. Similar work in other laboratories verified his conclusions. Although the observation that flavonoids display a synergistic action towards ascorbic acid was demonstrated, the initial claim that some or all of the flavonoids are indispensable food components equivalent to vitamins was not substantiated. As a result, in 1950 the joint Committee of Biochemical Nomenclature of the American Society of Biological Chemists and the American Institute of Nutrition recommended that the term vitamin P be dropped. Following this, the name bioflavonoids came into use except in France and the U.S.S.R., where the term vitamin P persisted. Then, in the late 1960s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded that, not only were the bioflavonoids not a vitamin, they were without any nutritional value whatsoever. 

The chairperson must be elected by the committee and this position should be a rotating position between labor and management. Each committee member should receive training on the joint committee process and receive other specific instructions that are deemed necessary, such as job-related safety and health training. The labor members should be paid for all committee duties, including attendance at meetings, inspections, training sessions, etc. 

The Joint Committee consisted of eighteen members, nine from the Senate and nine from the House, with not more than five senators or five representatives from the same political party. The law vested the group with full jurisdiction over "all bills, resolutions, and other matters in the Senate or the House of Representatives relating primarily to the Commission or to the development, use, and control of atomic energy." An important proviso also required the Commission to keep the Joint Committee "fully and currently informed with respect to the Commission s activities." The Joint Committee could appoint its own staff as well as utilize the services, information, facilities, and personnel of the executive branch. ... 

Sections of the 1954 act reflected the state of the technology by establishing two classes of licenses for atomic facilities. One section authorized the AEC to issue commercial or "class 103" licenses (after the section number in the law) whenever it had determined that a facility had been "sufficiently developed to be of practical value for industrial or commercial purposes." Since the agency and the Joint Committee interpreted "practical value" to mean that atomic facilities had to be judged economically competitive with other energy sources, issuance of class-103 licenses was postponed until the industry had passed through its research and development phase. ... 

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