Professional organizations and agencies

These are national organizations that specialize in the many aspects of occupational safety and health. They have a wide range of resources as well as unique materials that have been developed by individuals and organizations with special expertise in occupational safety and health. Some key organizations and agencies are as follows  

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The mission of AMCP is to serve as an organization through which the membership pursues its common goals to provide leadership and support for its members to represent its members before private and public agencies and healthcare professional organizations and to advance pharmacy practice in managed healthcare systems. 

Today, Web sites are an essential source of information from government agencies, professional organizations, and commercial suppliers. Statistics, standards, patents, and other information that nsed to be difficnlt to identify and locate is now often just a few clicks away. Many journals are available in electronic editions, and the TRIS database (now TRID) is accessed online. Print resonrces remain important, however. As with any engineering discipline, handbooks, manuals, and textbooks are still critical information sources. 

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. 

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... 

Sources of information Possible sources of scientific information include advocacy groups, the media, universities or other research organizations, government agencies, contract research, NGOs, and scientific publications. In the case of POPs decisionmakers have gotten scientific advice from international conferences the internet, and scientific journals. There are also professional organizations such as Stockholm Convention Implementation Office of SEPA (CIO). 

ANSI is a federation of over 1,000 national trade, technical, professional, labor, and consumer organizations, governmental agencies, and individual companies. It coordinates the standards development efforts of these groups and implements national standards when they are approved. Among other publications, it publishes documents on health and safety. 

We talked about the structure for research grants. The big driver is the pocketbook, so where is the money coming from Is it coming from the federal agencies, is it coming from the state organizations And there is accreditation. We talked about the ACS Committee on Professional Training (CPT) and whether or not there should be a question or a focus issue about women in the accreditation process. 

The profiles are used by federal, state and local health officials and health professionals, interested private-sector organizations and groups and members of the public. The agency s intent is to revise and republish profiles as newer data become available. 

To Err Is Human contains a four-part plan for decreasing the number of medical errors, and each part has implications for the pharmacy profession. To provide leadership and a research focus for patient safety. Part one recommends the creation of a center for patient safety within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Pharmacy organizations and pharmacists have the opportunity to contribute by including the study of medical errors in their applied research agendas. Using their expertise, pharmacists can provide input to the national goals, their content, and professional responsibilities for medicahon safety. ... 

Valuable assistance in finding information can be obtained by consulting information intermediaries with subject expertise who can identify and access information resources unknown or unavailable locally. These individuals may be in local information centers or may be brokers who specialize in individual information services or creation of compilations of data for a fee. An example of this type of service is the Comprehensive Health and Environmental Monographs (CHEMS) division of Health and Environment International. This service creates detailed reports on the health and environmental effects of a chemical. Professional organizations, database producers, and government agencies can also be sources of experts as well as providers of direct information. An example of the former type of service is UNEP-Infoterra, an international referral and research organization of the... 

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