Priority planning

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Overview of NHTSA Priority Plan for Vehicle Safety and Fuel Economy, 2015-2017, June 2015 http //www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/ nvs/pdf/NVS priority-plan-June2015 final.pdf (2015). Accessed 14 Oct 2015... 

Priority planning while an order for a major customer may be priority number 1 for the focal firm in Figure 1.3, the existence of the order may not be visible to upstream partners. Each has different priorities to manage - and each has a different perspective about what order should be processed next. 

In addition to chemicals covered under TRI, many other chemicals are released. For example, the EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards has compiled air pollutant emission factors for determining the total air emissions of priority pollutants (e.g., VOCs, SO, NO, CO, particulates, etc.) from many refinery sources. The EPA Office of Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) contains a wide range of information related to stationary sources of air pollution, including the emissions of a number of air pollutants which may be of concern within a particular industry. With the exception of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), there is little overlap with the TRI chemicals reported above. 

Select the criteria on the checklist that most closely represent the local district s needs and priorities for emergency response planning. It is not expected that all criteria listed will apply. 

Identifies the essential elements that should be present in the plans based on regulatory requirements and local community priorities. 

To make sure that safety is a priority at your projeet, the safety plan needs to be adhered to. All workers should beeome familiar with and trained in at least those parts of the safety plan that may aflfeet them. Workers should not be deemed qualified to perform their assigned job funetions until site management is satisfied that they have reeeived not only the required funetional training, but other safety-related site-speeifie instruetions. 

As this list suggests, the first priority for this facility is its own people, who will require the most comprehensive information and who should receive priority attention. Others on the list have widely varying information needs and levels of interest, all of which the facility manager must take into account in developing a communications plan. 

Undertaking a PSM initiative will requite time, staffpower, and funding— direct and/or indirect. The task team s first priority will be to develop a detailed plan for the Core Management Group s review and approval, including specific schedules and cost estimates. 

In the immediate term, however, your plan may be most effective if you focus on the specific needs and priorities you have identified in the course of your work so far. If you clearly define the scope of your plan, and it directly addresses specific needs, your efforts will be far more successful than if you try to do all things for all people. Moreover, focusing on priority needs will almost certainly provide a sound basis for expansion or adaptation for example, procedures developed to address training for operators using high-hazaid materials at one facility (see Rextown vs. Effingham in Figure 5-2) should be readily adaptable to lower-hazard substances at another facility— far more so than the other way around. 

In setting schedules and deadlines, try to be realistic while maintaining your sense of urgency. Be sure to build in sufficient time for group meetings to evaluate progress to date. Also, remember to consult those most immediately affected (for example, people whose staff will be called on) by the plan, whose other priorities must be taken into account in scheduling. 

Then consider these selling benefits in the context of your company s business priorities, match them against the goals management has established for PSM, and then try to distill the comments into a few key points that summarize the long-term value of your plan to the company as a whole. 

As you near completion of each PSM element s modification or redesign, it s useful to check results against the criteria you established as part of developing your plan. You may find it helpful to review the plan at intervals, and to revisit Section 3.2, which discusses PSM criteria. Similarly, you will want to assure that the modifications you devise address the priorities you identified as part of the planning process (see Section 5.3). 

The implementation plan you and your team developed (Chapter 5) provides the framework for the installation phase it defines your strategy, priorities, resources, and timetable. The specific PSM systems you have designed (Chapter 6) provide the substance they ate the activities you plan to install. What remains is the series of tasks requited to translate words on paper into tangible action. 

While you may wish to defer a firm decision about where, specifically, to start rolling out the system until the pilot test is completed, it s wise to consider a number of options as part of the planning process. The priorities you identified in Chapter 5 (both facilities and elements) provide useful guidance similarly, the implementation strategy you have adopted (companywide, facility-specific, or hybrid) will affect these decisions. 

As part of developing the PSM implementation plan (Chapter 5), you and the team identified benefits unique to the approach you selected, using them to help win management s approval. For example, your plan may focus on priority elements because the assessment you conducted suggests that this method will yield the greatest overall improvement in safety performance. And, as part of the pilot test described in this chapter, you focused on facility-specific benefits to enlist the support of local management and staff. 

Defining priorities helps determine the scope of the plan. Remember that you may not be able to achieve total integration as a first step. Total integration may be achieved over an extended period and with a series of individual projects. You must design your plan so that subsequent integration projects can dovetail with yours. 

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Develop a nursing care plan for Ms. Morris, a 28-year-old, woman who is admitted to the obstetric unit with premature labor during her third trimester. This is her second child, and die has had two miscarriages. She is prescribed ritodrine for preterm labor. Analyze what nursing diagnoses would have the highest priority. Discuss how you would explore and plan to meet her emotional needs. 

EPA. 1979. Water-related environmental fate of 129 priority pollutants. Vol. I Introduction and technical background, metals and inorganics, pesticides and PCB s. Washington, DC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Planning and Standards. EPA-440/4-79-029a, 27.1-27.16. 

It is always surprising to find how even very small quantities of some chemicals can create contamination or waste disposal problems. As a result, such matters should be given high priority when planning a new or modified laboratory, purchasing new equipment, or introducing new procedures. 

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