Promoting safety

Does management throughout the organization promote safety m order to mcrease safety awareness ... 

In order to promote safety, companies have contests, conduct periodic safety meetings, give prizes, award plaques, and conduct big advertising campaigns. Managers feel that making the employee aware of safety will help improve the company s over-all performance. Experience has shown them to be correct. 

Fenstermaker, R. W., "Study of Autoignition for Low Pressure Fuel-Gas Blends Helps Promote Safety", Oil and Gas Journal, February 15,1982. 

Federal, state, and local programs already exist that—with varying degrees of effectiveness—encourage or require the operators of chemical facilities to boost their efforts to promote safety and security and to share information that can help local governments plan for emergencies (Schierow 2006). 

James Reason offered another useful model, often referred to as the Swiss cheese model, that explains how the many factors can converge, resulting in an incident (Figure 6-5). A company tries to promote safety and prevent catastrophic incidents hy putting into place layers of system defenses, depicted in Figure 6-5 as slices of Swiss cheese. Essentially, the term system defenses refers to the safety-related decisions and actions of the entire company top management, the line supervisors, and the workers. This model recognizes that each defense layer has weaknesses or holes. 

The following are some universally accepted rules and regulations, which must be followed in toto in order to promote safety during storage. 

A bureau of the Department of the Interior active in promoting safety in coal mines and in carrying out broad programs in mining and related fields. 

Where pesticides must be used in public health, WHO, in collaboration with industry and other relevant institutions, should further promote safety and judicious use. 

The Labor Department agency employs three strategies to promote safety and health in American workplaces strong, fair, and effective enforcement outreach, education, and compliance assistance and cooperative and voluntary programs. 

Another source mentions institutional realities that undercut corporate safety goals, such as incentives that promote safety violations in the interest of short-term profitability, shielding upper management from bad news and turnover of management staff. 157 A third says that Many chemical plant disasters have been precipitated by an unplanned change in process, a change in equipment or a change in personnel. 158... 

For managers to promote safety and supervisors responsibilities. Industrial Training Systems Corporation Rental 95 (3-day), 175 (10-day) Purchase 495... 

Supervisor s role in promoting safety, rewarding safety behavior, and correcting unsafe acts. 

A language barrier should not stand in the way of hazard communication. In some ways, a precedent has already been set vis-a-vis the four-digit placard. This placard, without the use of words, communicates the symbol, color and class number. The four-digit UN number simply identifies the specific commodity. Is the white flame on a red background with Class Number 3 any less a Flammable Liquid label than with the use of those words Or, is the green label with the white cylinder and Class Number 2 any less a Non-Flammable Gas There will be those who will object to the additional training necessary in a world without words. It is suggested that such a step will not be as difficult as it may appear, and further, it will promote safety and economic benefits in both international and domestic trade. 

In conclusion, NO -catalyzed aerobic alcohol oxidation is a growing research area and offers the potential for metal-free aerobic oxidation reactions. Applications of nitroxyl/NO -catalyzed oxidation reactions that employ the sterically unhindered bicyclic nitroxyls (e.g., F-AZADO, ABNO, keto-ABNO) are especially effective with a broad range of substrates bearing diverse functional groups, and reactionengineering advances that allow using these reactions in continuous processes should help to enhance reaction efficiency and promote safety. 

Voluntary Protection Program—The Department of Energy Voluntary Protection Program (DOE-VPP), which promotes safety and health excellence through cooperative efforts among labor, management, and government at DOE contractor sites. DOE has also formed partnerships with other... 

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