Personal safety issues

Industrial recognition of customer and employee safety is a major factor and is included in international programs such as ISO 9000 and ISO 14000. Further, a number of national and state agencies and associations deal with aspects of the environmental and personal safety issues on an ongoing basis. 

An extremely important safety issue with respect to ah. wood product manufacturing processes is personal worker safety. Ah of the processes use much moving machinery, usuahy including many saws or knives. Workers must continuahy remember the inherent dangers these machines involve as weh as other possible dangerous situations which could result from malfunctions or other errors. In addition, most processes are more or less dusty and noisy. Most employers require use of safety glasses and many require hearing protection, safety shoes, and hardhats as weh as other kinds of protection needed for Specific jobs. 

The health and safety issues outlined herein for particleboard also apply to MDE. A special note should be made of the fact that, because the MDF raw material is of dry fiber base, there exists in MDF a large component of very small, broken, dust-like wood fibers. These contribute to the dust concerns in the manufacturing areas, requiring exceUent dust-control systems, good housekeeping, and personal protection. 

On the other hand, on larger, more complicated sites, one person might have only one job, or one piece of a job. As described earlier, the SSHO may have many levels of competence. We previously mentioned three levels commonly accepted at government sites. There may be three levels or more of SSHO. Each site may be different, yet the principles are the same. The HASP should show how safety issues are addressed. Typically, a flow chart can be used to clearly depict levels of responsibility along with straight-line versus dotted-line levels of reporting. 

Surveys of professional lawn chemical applicators were conducted during the summer and fall of 2004. Subjects recruited included participants in Ohio State University s OARDC (Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center)-sponsored turf care professional educational seminars (Northeast Ohio Lawn Care Seminars). Approximately 300 professionals attended these events (held at the Wooster campus of Ohio State) to inform practitioners of best management practices, new technology, and health and safety issues. Participants included those who own and work in the lawn care industry in Ohio, spanning companies from small, one-person owner operated firms to large franchised national outfits. Professionals attend these seminars for purposes of certification participation in the survey was optional. 

The court saw two issues being raised by this case Does the constitution or common law give individuals an absolute right to carry a loaded gun on a public highway And failing that, does travel on a public highway automatically constimte the personal safety hazard required by the stamte ... 

Chemical safety is inherently linked to other safety issues including laboratory procedures, personal protectives, equipment, electrical safety, and hazardous waste disposal. 

Also, the development of new medicines is expensive, and the expenses are increasing year after year. Most of the expenses go to clinical trials that demonstrate that the medicine is both effective and safe and with newer and more effective medicines, the safety issue becomes more and more acute. What helps one patient may be dangerous for another. The result is that the industry is beginning to discuss individualized medicine, where both the type of medicine and the treatment regime, dose and timing, are personalized. 

Chemical safety is inherently linked to other safety issues, including laboratory procedures, personal protective equipment, electrical safety, fire safety, and hazardous waste disposal. Specific chemical substances, uses, and possible health effects are discussed in different chapters of this book. The responsibility of workers as well... 

If access is denied, it should be clearly explained as to why (e.g. public health risks, interference with caring for the sick and injured, safety issues, and so forth) and a plan to provide ongoing communication to media outside inaccessible areas made where possible. In that manner, denying physical access doesn t mean denying access to information (L. Barrett, personal communication, 2006). Evidence strongly suggests that media coverage is more factual when reporters have more information (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). 

Disasters worldwide are best seen as complex emergencies where the main issue, that is, famine, flood, or pandemic normally is underpinned by political, ethnic, or tribal conflict. Working in such environments presents an increased risk to personal security. Nurses must always ensure that personal safety is of the utmost priority. 

Such support can involve responding to complaints about promotional activities, which may come from other companies or external agencies such as, in the UK, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority. A medically qualified person should certainly have overall responsibility for clinical drug safety issues (see Section 9.3.6). Pharmaceutical physicians are usually involved in the training of sales representatives. In addition, a good pharmaceutical physician can be a credible ambassador for the company when lecturing to external audiences or dealing with the communication media. 

Another remotely activated device has been described by Groning et al. (57). They demonstrated in a model the remote control of a device to delivery insulin (Fig. 7). This possibility of external programming and monitoring of insulin pumps is possible for continuous subcutaneous infusion. The use of SMS allows immediate transfer of commands to the pump. There are many pitfalls to overcome the ethics of taking control away from the patients and their carer is but one, and there are safety issues, should the GPS system fad, and presumably if in error the pump is activated by the physician or indeed by individuals accidentally. But there is no doubt that telepharmacy wiU impact on future medicine, whether personalized or not. The personal element could come simply as a result of automated reminders to patients to take their medications also discussed above, but the more sophisticated systems described by Groning et al. wiU also have their place. 

Chapter 2 examines the extensive literature which documents the high accident rate associated with new employees. Research on the relationship between job tenure and accidents, on the relationship between age and accidents, and on the relationship between employee turnover rates and accidents is reviewed. All of the research evidence points to safety issues associated with new employees. Smdies from around the world, and conducted in many different industries, have consistently shown higher accident rates associated with new employees. Furthermore, it is very likely that many of the accidents where the injured person is a senior employee (an individual that has worked for the organization for sometime) have in fact been directly caused by a new employee or by factors associated with new employees. Targeting new employee accidents is thus not only necessary to help reduce, and hopefully eliminate, accidents where new employees are injured, but should also help reduce the overall accident rate in an organization. 

Every person that starts a new job can be classified as a new employee. This is true, regardless of the nature of their previous employment history. Of course whether a new employee is a school leaver or has many years of previous work experience will have implications for their new employee-associated safety risks. However, previous job experience does not remove all the safety risks associated with being a new employee. In Chap. 3, different types of new employee are defined, and how safety issues vary across the four types of new employee is discussed. Arguably, an organization that understands the specific safety issues that are associated with a new employee will be in a better position to manage that employee s safety. It is also important that new employees understand their own vulnerabilities, and strategies are discussed which allow an organization to help different types of new employee protect themselves from risk. 

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