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Moreover, it is useful to distinguish between the standards prepared by the official standards organizations and the professional standards. The former s mission is to ensure that the conditions of the consensus of the widest assemblage of interested parties are followed. The professional standards are prepared by recognized professional organizations but limit the consensus to only the participating organizations. 

There are many professional organizations their influence is more or less in proportion to the number of members and they can be national or international. Among those dealing with petroleum products, the following examples are cited ... 

Agency. A second example of an external method of quality assessment is the voluntary participation of the laboratory in a collaborative test (Chapter 14) sponsored by a professional organization such as the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. Finally, individuals contracting with a laboratory can perform their own external quality assessment by submitting blind duplicate samples and blind standard samples to the laboratory for analysis. If the results for the quality assessment samples are unacceptable, then there is good reason to consider the results suspect for other samples provided by the laboratory. 

Assessment Phase The assessment phase aims to collect data needed to identify and analyze pollution-prevention opportunities. Assessment of the facility s waste-reduction needs includes the examination of hazardous waste streams, process operations, and the identification of techniques that often promise the reduction of waste generation. Information is often derived from obsei vations made during a facihty walk-through, interviews with employees (e.g., operators, line workers), and review of site or regulatory records. One professional organization suggests the following information sources be reviewed, as available (Ref. 7) ... 

Liaison with State Air Pollution Control Agencies and Trade or Professional Organizations... 

Liaison with Local Air Pollution Control Agency and Local Trade and Professional Organizations... 

Liaison with National Trade and Professional Organization... 

Si hes may be requested from professional organizations, chemical manufacture id from... 

The professional organization for chemists and chemical engineers in The Netherlands. 

A nonprofit professional organization that promotes aerosol research in areas including industrial processes, air pollution, and industrial hygiene. Composed of scientists and engineers associated with universities, technical institutes, private firms, and government representatives. 

A professional organization of chemists and chemical engineers. Conducts studies and surveys professional and student conferences and programs administers grants and fellowship programs maintains extensive chemical databanks, online services, and more than 33 divisions and hundreds of subcommittees covering all aspects offundamental and applied chemistry. Elelps interpret technical data and refers citizens to local scientists. 

A nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that provides training, information, and networking opportunities to environmental professionals in 65 countries. 

Merger of the ALEE and the IRE in 1963 into the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) preseiwed in its name a sense of the earlier bifurcation of the profession, but in fact the lines had become quite blurred and the numerous constituent societies drew and continue to draw from both traditions. At the end of the centuiy, the IEEE was easily the largest professional organization in the world with membership over 350,000. Its thirty-six constituent societies provided an indication of the degree to which electricity has pervaded the modern world, ranging from Communications and Lasers Electron... 

In some cases, the systems vendors can provide all of these courses. If not, there a number of companies and professional organizations that offer courses on most nondestructive testing techniques. 

ICSID members are professional organizations, promotional societies, educational institutions, government bodies, companies and institutions which aim to contribute to the development of the profession of industrial design. Today ICSID consists of 149 Member Societies, representing 52 countries from all continents (except Antarctica ). These Societies collaborate to establish an international platform through which design institutions worldwide can stay in touch, share common interests and new experiences, and be heard as a powerful voice. 

Professional organizations, such as the American Chemical Society, have published information on safety. Professional journals often carry safety articles, including stories about laboratory accidents of types not formerly experienced. 

In 1978 the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry produced a comprehensive summary of the objectives of External Quality Assessment (IFCC 1978). The first six points of Table 4.1 summarize the IFCC objectives the seventh has developed since that time and is of considerable importance in many countries where strict control over laboratories undertaking particular types of work is required by legislation or by appropriate professional organizations. 

A comprehensive listing of all the vendors that offer HTS instrumentation and platforms is beyond the scope of this chapter, but most vendors maintain informative websites and there are three professional organizations that disseminate useful information about automation platforms for HTS on the world wide web, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (www.sbsonline.com), the Association for Laboratory Automation (www.labautomation.org), and the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (www.lab-robotics.org). The latter maintains an online forum where vendors and experienced users often provide immediate and useful guidance. 

Methods in books published by professional organizations, e.g. The Royal Society of Chemistry (Analytical Methods Committee), Association of Official Analytical Chemists, etc. 

Many larger professional organizations have state, regional, and national special interest groups that include like-minded members. These groups offer resources to their members, often including manuals for treatment, fliers of... 

If these suggested recourses are not available, or if the counselor is not a member of or licensed by a professional organization, then legal recourse may be appropriate. If a criminal act has been committed, you may wish to contact law enforcement officials. If a law has not been broken, but you feel your rights have been violated, then you may wish to seek an attorney for civil action, such as malpractice. 

Disciplinary action. The imposing of sanctions on a professional by his or her professional organization for violation of laws or ethical codes. Existentialism. Deep philosophical and spiritual questions about meaning and... 

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A second point can be made about the way in which uni" processes came into existence. The emergence of unit process is analogous to that of unit operations, particularly with regard to relevant social groupings involved in this evolution. Industries, professional organizations, particularly AIChE and the American Chemical Society, and universities are involved, as in the case of unit operations. This time, however, the process leading to the identification of unit processes is simpler because the disciplinary identity of the chemical engineering profession is well defined and especially because unit processes, as the name shows, are patterned after unit operations. 

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