Property-specific training

Because many mines have railroad tracks and/or rail yards on their property to convey materials to and from their mines, potential jurisdictional conflicts between MSHA and the FRA do arise. A common example is MSHA s attempt to impose its training requirements on railroad employees because MSHA interprets the employees conduct as a mining function. By contrast, the FRA may interpret the same employees conduct as a railroad function that does not require mine-specific training. Despite the relative frequency of such debates, there are no formal memoranda between MSFIA and the FRA regarding issues of overlapping jurisdiction, nor are there established processes to resolve jurisdictional disputes. When conflicts do arise, they are generally worked out between the FRA s Office of Chief Counsel and the Department of Labor s Office of the SoHcitor. However, this is not always the case, and any mine operator who may have to contend with potential conflicts between the FRA and MSHA should be prepared before they arise. 

The most conuiion cause of fire accidents in process plants is equipment failure. Tliis is primarily a result of poor equipment maintenance or poor equipment layout and design. Maintenance perfonned according to a detailed and well structured schedule will significantly reduce tlie occurrence of fire accidents. Tlie second largest cause of fire accidents is ignorance of tlie properties of a specific chemical or chemical process. Proper training of employees will increase tlieir knowledge of tlie properties of a specific chemical and chemical process and can prevent many of tliese chemical fire accidents. 

Ryzl claims to have used this kind of training to develop strong psi abilities in a number of people. One such percipient, Pavel Stepanek, was able to demonstrate significant psi abilities to other investigators for many years. Ryzl s studies are a good example of relatively sophisticated use of a d-ASC because he used the specific properties of the hypnotic d-ASC in a way that might help psi and recognized that psi potential must be learned in the d-ASC, rather than simply expected to manifest. Unfortunately, there has never been any adequate attempt at replication of Ryzl s results the few published attempts [7, 30] did not duplicate his main conditions. 

As in Lyman s Handbook, emphasis is on broadly applicable estimation methods. Given the many and varied reasons that one might be interested in chemical property estimation, we believe that most users of this book will have less interest in chemical class-specific estimation methods. Obviously such methods are reliable only for that class, which may be defined very narrowly, and they may produce substantial yet unknown error if applied to compounds that differ significantly. Many of the newer methods were developed using much larger and more varied training sets, thus are more likely to be useful for diverse and/or structurally complex compounds. Therefore, in contrast to the situation that existed in 1982 when Lyman s Handbook was published, current users often do not need to make decisions about which of several class-specific methods seems most applicable to the compound of interest. 

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