Permits Committee

A permits committee was formed and met regularly to draft critical safety permits. New hot work, confined space, general permit to work, and excavation permits were written, approved, and introduced. A special squad of employees was formed into an at-height rescue team able to rescue someone suspended from a safety harness at height, and they were trained and equipped. A special three-story scaffold was erected as a permanent training structure for the team. This team was formed as a result of anployees concerns when working at heights. 

Safety representatives were appointed and trained in all nine divisions, and their monthly inspections contributed to making the workplaces free from hazards. 

During all this activity, four major safety competitions were run by the safety department. One was a spot the hazard competition that drew more than 2,000 responses. Prizes were offered and presented at mini functions held by the general managers. 

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A SHE permits committee was formed to revamp existing permits and approve new and updated permits critical to the SHE system. New hot work, confined space, permit to work, and excavation permits were written, approved, and introduced. 

Inspection Authority The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors is composed of the chief inspectors of states and municipalities in the United States and Canadian provinces which have made any pari of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code a legal requirement. This board promotes uniform enforcement of boiler and pressure-vessel rules. One of the board s imporiant activities is providing examinations for, and commissioning of, inspectors. Inspeciors so qualified and employed by an insurance company state, municipality, or Canadian province may inspect a pressure vessel and permit it to be stamped ASME—NB (National Board). An inspector employed by a vessel user may authorize the use of only the ASME stamp. The ASME Code Committee authorizes fabricators to use the various ASME stamps. The stamps, however, may be apphed to a vessel only with the approval of the inspector. 

To make sure that all contractors and subcontractors maintain a minimum level of safety performance, the client, or general or main contractor, should establish standards for compliance. During the project planning stage, affected prime contractors should have an opportunity to provide input and resolve differences. Cross-cut committees are encouraged to allow prime contractors to standardize or normalize such essential elements as procedures, permit systems, and training. 

The ACRS is an independent statutory committee that advises the Commission on reactor safety, and reviews each application for a construction permit or an operating license. It is composed of a maximum of fifteen members appointed by the Commission for terms of four years each. 

The results of these experiments have been considered by the Joint Committee for the Co-ordination of the Cathodic Protection of Buried Structures and, in view of the various types of buried structures concerned and the circumstances in which field tests are conducted, the Committee decided not to amend its provisional recommendation that when cathodic protection is applied to a buried structure the maximum permissible potential change in the positive direction on a nearby pipe or cable should be 20 mV. If there is a history of corrosion on the unprotected installation no detectable positive change in structure/soil potential should be permitted. These criteria of interaction have been adopted in the British Standard Code of Practice for Cathodic Protection . 

During the course of its conduct, the sponsor may need to amend a clinical trial, as a consequence of the emergence of new information. If the amendments are deemed to be substantial, in that they may impact on the safety of trial subjects, or change the interpretation of the scientific documents in support of the conduct of the trial, or are otherwise significant, the sponsor shall notify the Competent Authority and the Ethics Committee, using a Trial Amendment Form. The Ethics Committee are permitted 35 days to approve the amendment. 

The conduct of clinical trials is regulated in all the countries, except Cypms. In Cypms, the policy of the Ministry of Health is not to permit clinical trials for experimental medical products. Multicountry clinical trials for products licensed in developed countries are undertaken in some institutions and regulated by ethics committees (Table 8.5). In these countries, approval of clinical trials is carried out either by the DRA, as in Estonia, Malaysia, Tunisia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, or by ethics committees. When the DRA itself is responsible for control, information about the trials is processed centrally. In Tunisia, clinical trials form part of the registration process. Trials are requested, when deemed necessary, by the specialized committee charged with reviewing the new dmg. The trial proposal is then evaluated by the technical committee, and forwarded to the Health Minister for final approval. Cuba has a National Centre for the Coordination of... 

The director general, Paul Mueller, was married to Schmitz s sister. Although he lost his title, Mueller was kept as Schmitz s emissary. He was permitted also to sit on Farben s technical committee, which approved all Dynamit A.G. s expenditures. The new arrangement was friendly but firm. Mueller was to have some say in managing the business, but strictly subject to Farben s direction. 

The Council and the Commission must adopt positive fists of additives, authorised to the exclusion of all others, fists of foods in which the additives may be used with conditions of use, and rules on carrier solvents. The Standing Committee on Foodstuffs must approve adoption of purity criteria for listed additives and, if necessary, methods of analysis to verily these purity criteria, sampling procedures and methods of analysis for food additives in food. The directive includes provisions that a member state may temporarily suspend or restrict application of an authorisation if it has detailed grounds for considering that the use of the additive in food, although permitted, endangers health. The... 

As required by Directive 89/107/EEC, criteria of purity have been drawn up for all the listed food additives (with a couple of exceptions). Purity criteria for all the permitted sweeteners have been prescribed in Directive 95/31/EC,6 as amended, and criteria for all the permitted colours are contained in Directive 95/ 45/EC,7 as amended. Directives that prescribe purity criteria for all the additives authorised under Directive 95/2/EC have been drawn up in stages. Directive 96/ 77/EC8 containing purity criteria for antioxidants and preservatives is amended by Directives 98/86/EC which lays down purity criteria for emulsifiers, stabilisers and thickeners and 2000/63/EC which contains purity criteria for most additives numbered E 500 and above, and for certain other additives not covered in the earlier directives. Purity criteria for most of the few remaining permitted miscellaneous additives are contained in Directive 2001/30/EC however, purity criteria for E 1201 polyvinylpyrrolidone and E 1202 polyvinylpolypyrrolidone are still being considered by the Scientific Committee on Food. Some methods of analysis for verifying prescribed purity criteria have been developed at EU level these are contained in Directive 81/712/EEC.9... 

The EU Directives 94/35/EC, 94/36/EC and 95/2/EC on sweeteners, colours and food additives other than colours and sweeteners, limit the amounts of certain food additives that can be used and the range of foods in which they are permitted. Similarly, the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants (CCFAC) has published its General Standard on Food Additives (GSFA), which lists the maximum use levels recorded world-wide. Care should be taken when using data from the EU Directive annexes or the GSFA because the figures represent the maximum permitted in each food group. In practice, use levels may need to be much lower to achieve the desired technical effect, particularly if used in combination with other additives intended for the same purpose. Furthermore, the additive is unlikely to be used in all foods in which it is permitted because other additives compete for the same function in the marketplace. 

The standards and limits adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission are intended for formal acceptance by governments in accordance with its general principles. Codex Alimentarius permits only those antioxidants which have been evaluated by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) for use in foods. Antioxidants may be used only in foods standardised by Codex. The antioxidant provisions of Codex Commodity Standards are included in and superseded by the provision of this Standard. Food categories or individual foods where the use of additives are not allowed or are restricted are defined by this Standard. The primary objective of establishing permitted levels of use of antioxidants in various food groups is to ensure that the intake does not exceed the acceptable daily intake (ADI). 

Only antioxidants which satisfy the requirements laid down by the Scientific Committee for Food may be used in foodstuffs. Having regard to the most recent scientific and toxicological information on these substances, some of them are to be permitted only for certain foodstuffs and under certain conditions of use. On the other hand, a wide range of natural antioxidants may be added to all foodstuffs, with the exception of formulae for special purposes (such as for infants), following the quantum satis principle. 

The acceptability of the dunnage treater for permitting also remains an issue. For the CST, the committee notes that Parsons/Honeywell has stated as follows (Parsons, 2001) ... 

The Demo II test evaluated all of the major effluent streams for a full suite of trace species and reaction byproducts. At the time the committee was preparing its Demo II report, not all of the data were available and the impact of trace species, particularly in brines and atmospheric releases, on facility permitting remains to be determined. This information was still unavailable to the committee as of the time the present report was being prepared. 

The Sponsor must inform the MHRA of any refusal by an ethics committee to permit the trial. 

In order to permit a smooth transition, the two committees (that on Safety of Drugs and that on Safety of Medicines) met simultaneously from Jime 1970 onwards, the CSD continuing to appraise products for clinical trials and... 

The applicant undertook to inform the LA of any refusal to permit the trial by an ethical committee and... 

No further extensions to the period referred to in the first subparagraph shall be permissible except in the case of trials involving the medicinal products listed in paragraph 6, for which an extension of a maximum of 30 days shall be permitted. For these products, this 90-day period may be extended by a further 90 days in the event of consultation of a group or a committee in accordance with the regulations and procedures of the Member States concerned. In the case of xenogenic cell therapy there shall be no time limit to the authorisation period. 

In summarizing the permit situation, the committee made the following observations ... 

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