Position description

Names, position descriptions, summaries of training, experience, and location of major personnel engaged in the study must be obtained. It is also necessary to examine the workload of selected individuals to determine if they actually had time to accomplish the task specified by the protocol. 

The active participation of the entire staff in a QA program is essential. Responsibility for QA is therefore included in every employee s position description in the BOC. This emphasizes the importance of QA in the laboratory, and demonstrates an expectation of participation in the program. Individual performance standards addressing QA provide a mechanism for evaluating an employee s participation in the program, and rewards those demonstrating a positive attitude towards QA. This also helps establish positive role models for participation in the program. 

Review the position description and performance standards. The position description and performance standards will form the basis of your interview questions. Examples of a position description and performance standards are provided in Table 9-2. 

The interview should be conducted in the following sequence (1) review and update the position description and performance standards, (2) discuss the performance ratings assigned to the employee using the prescribed appraisal form, (3) highlight strengths and accomplishments since the previous appraisal, (4) discuss objectives that were not reached since the previous review, and (5) discuss future performance and assist with career planning. 

Once the goals of the company have been determined and the corporation has made a decision as to where to dedicate its resources, actual position descriptions should be developed. It is important to note that the company s size and cultural objectives can determine the importance a pharmacist has within the company. For example, if the pharmacy department in an organization represents 70 percent of the company s total gross profit, this company would be more sensitive to recognizing and developing its pharmacists compared with an organization in which pharmacy represents only 10 percent of the company s total gross profit. The actual description of a position is called a... 

All the positions established for the EMO should have written position descriptions,... 

For the calculation of the principal moments, the structural description of a particular isotopomer must be translated into Cartesian coordinates. This can be done by an algorithm which has been given an efficient and widely applicable form by Thompson [58], Each atom is considered to be the origin of a local Cartesian base system whose axis directions are fixed by a prescription which references the two preceding atoms in the chain (and a few conventions if necessary). The positional description by the local base systems is then retransformed, in a stepwise fashion along the chain (by a translation plus a rotation), into that of the local base... 

Participate in after-action debriefings and document observations and recommendations for improvements for possible inclusion in the After-Action Report. Topics include Accomplishments and issues Review of pertinent position descriptions and operational checklists Recommendations for procedure changes ... 

Assurance of competent staff begins by preparing position descriptions that specify the educational requirements, operational experience, and duties of the laboratory personnel. The qualifications of the supervisors, analysts, and instrument operators who are hired must match these descriptions. Each staff position should have a set of core training specifications (e.g., radiation safety, chemical safety, waste minimization and disposal, quality assurance) plus specific training in its area of responsibility. Table 13.3 provides suggested position titles, educational requirements, and general responsibilities for the optimal laboratory staff. 

Do position descriptions for points-of-contact or coordinators responsible for chemical hazards management appropriately reflect their duties and responsibilities relative to chemical safety, as well as their training and subject matter competency ... 

The attributes of the organization unit include orgtmization rmit name, position, description, role list, leader, and the organization s associated activities and resources. The leader and subordinate relationships between different units are also defined in the organization unit In defining a team, the attributes needed are team name, description, project or process ID, associated personnel, and resources. 

Anthropometric Survey (ANSUR), 1113, 1114 Anthropometry, 1043—1050 alternative design, 1049 body position, description of, 1043 computer-aided models of man, 1050 databases, 1113, 1114 definition of, 1043 design criteria, 1048, 1049 digital human modeling, 1113-1115 databases, 1113, 1114 methods, 1113-1115 method of limits, 1048 physical vs. functional anthropometry, 1043 range-of-joint mobility, 1043, 1046 statistical descriptions, 1043, 1048 test population, 1120-1121, 1122, 1123 Anxiety, as obstacle to performtmce management, 1002 Anxiety allowances, 1397 APICS, 348... 

Pharmaceutical industry assembly in, 398 as process industry, 518 PHC (productive hour cost), 2314 Photoelectric sensors, 1902 Physical anthropometry, 1043 Physical automation technology, 156 Physical data independence, 116 Physical markets, 262 Physical models, 1630 Physical products, online retailing of, 266 Physical prototyping, 1288 Physical tasks, 1042-1100. See also Ergonomics Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs) and anthropometry, 1043-1050 alternative design, 1049 body position, description of, 1043... 

While it seems relatively straight forward, and pretty much common sense, to include information about safety risks and hazards in a job description, it is unclear whether this really is common practice. A study by Ramsay et al. (2006) examined the job descriptions of nurses from 29 Veterans Affairs hospitals from across the USA. The job descriptions were examined by an expert panel of occupational nurses for the degree to which they incorporated the 12 primary occupational safety and health risk factors which emergency department nurses face, as defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Surprisingly, virtually, none of the position descriptions included the key safety information. This seems like a missed opportunity, particularly given the importance of taking all possible steps to alert new employees to safety risks and hazards. 

Job assignments, job classifications, organization structures, position descriptions, lines of progression, and seniority lists... 

This is a purposely brief description of what a safety professional does. Following the response to its question—What is a Safety Professional — the instruction on the BCSP website is to click on Standards of the Safety Profession for a formal definition of the professional safety position. That will take you to a more detailed position description of the scope of what safety professionals do. You will come to an American Society of Safety Engineers document titled as in the next caption. 

Mention is made in more than one place in this book of the Scope and Functions of the Professional Safety Position. As a position description, it is exceptionally well done. Because of its thoroughness and accuracy, I recommend it as a knowledge source and as reference. With the permission of ASSE, the entirety of the document appears as the Addendum to this chapter. ASSE has requested that I state that the Scope and Functions paper may become an American National Standard. 

With the dissertation from BCSP on What Is a Safety Professional and with a good position description in ASSE s Scope and Functions of the Professional Safety Position, why go further to define the practice of safety For this reason If the practice of safety is to be recognized as a profession, it must ... 

I refer to the 1998 version of the American Society of Safety Engineers paper titled Scope and Functions of the Professional Safety Position. And I quote very briefly from that paper, which is an excellent and current position description for the safety professional ... 

The results mentioned indicate that the scattering is too large, and therefore the coefiB-cients of correlation are to small, to obtain a positive description of the consistency data of... 

The requirements that define the conditions, safe boundaries, and the management of administrative controls necessary to ensure the safe operation of a nuclear facility are contained in the Technical Safety Requirements for the facility. Figure 17.3-1 is an organization chart delineating the line of authority for HCF operations. Position descriptions defining the duties and responsibilities of each management and supervisory position are maintained and are readily available. 

Depending upon the level of experience and the degree of supervision involved, this position description may apply to the following job titles Apprentice Mechanic, Mechanic s Helper, Mechanic, Lead Mechanic, and Joume3onan Mechanic. Specialized jobs might include bodyman, fenderman, and painter. 

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