Qualification standards

There is also a kind of division of labor between industrial suppliers of apparatus and plant engineering companies. As installation of a plant amounts to about 10% of all costs [16], pressure from the engineering companies was great enough to introduce common qualification standards and also standardized interfaces between industrial apparatus. 

The California market incentives helped wind and CSP developers and investors move their technologies forward, reducing cost and acquiring valuable operational experience that improved reliability. Wind engineers developed their qualifications standards during this same period like early PV technologies, wind systems often suffered from poor reliability until their certification standards were established and required in the marketplace. 

The CPV community has completed the first CPV qualification standards in time to respond to market opportunities, although additional safety, performance, and tracker standards are still needed. 

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section IX (2004) Qualification standard for welding and brazing procedures, welders, brazers, and welding and brazing operators. (ASME International). 

There are various ways of reaching the necessary qualification standard, depending on reactor type and design. Differing training objectives may be necessary. In some countries differences concerning the acquisition and preservation of the qualifying standard are to be expected, but this Section examines only the UK position. 

CER 391.49 — Alternative physical qualification standard for the loss or impairment of limbs. 

Of particular importance for safety professionals is the area of reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. Safety professionals should be aware that the company or organization would be required to make reasonable accommodations for any/all known physical or mental limitations of the qualified individual with a disability, unless the employer can demonstrate that the accommodations would impose an undue hardship on the business, or that the particular disability directly affects the safety and health of that individual or others. Safety professionals should also be aware that included under this section is the prohibition against the use of qualification standards, employment tests, and other selection criteria that can be used to screen out individuals with disabilities, unless the employer can demonstrate that the procedure is directly related to the job function. In addition to the modifications to facilities, work schedules, equipment, and training programs, the company or organization is required to initiate an informal interactive (communication) process with the qualified individual to promote voluntary disclosure of his or her specific limitations and restrictions to enable the employer to make appropriate accommodations that will compensate for the limitation. ... 

FN6. Respect for this distinction does not entail the requirement, as Echazabal claims, that qualification standards be neutral, stating what the job requires, as distinct from a worker s disqualifying characteristics. Brief for Respondent 26. It is just as much business necessity for skyscraper contractors to have steelworkers without vertigo as to have well-balanced ones. See 226 F.3d, at 1074 (Trott, J., dissenting). Reasonableness does not turn on formalism. We have no occasion, however, to try to describe how acutely an employee must exhibit a disqualifying condition before an employer may exclude him from the class of the generally qualified. See Brief for Respondent 31. This is a job for the trial courts in the first instance. 

Licari, J. J., Weigand, B. L., and Soykin, C. A., Development of a Qualification Standard for Adhesives Used in Hybrid Microcircuits, NASA Final Report CR-161978 (Dec. 1981)... 

The Company is committed to hiring only the best, safest, and most qualified drivers. To achieve the objectives of this policy. The Company has implemented the following driver qualification standards and procedures. All company employees involved in the driver qualification and hiring process will be expected to conform to this policy and its procedures. 

Part 391 establishes minimum driver qualification standards (for all drivers of commercial motor carriers) and motor carrier responsibility with reg u d to ensuring these standards... 

These minimrun qualification standards are listed here, in Subpart B. And here is also where you begin the process of establishing and setting your hiring standards bar. 

Establish minimum driver hiring and qualification standards that meet or exceed those listed in 391.11. 

Are our new driver qualification standards set too low — do we favor quantity over quahty in new driver applicants ... 

The Company s driver hiring qualification standards have been developed to achieve two basic objectives ... 

Established your minimum quantifiable qualification standards. This helps add consistency to your hiring process. Setting minimum qualification standards provides a foundation (or base) for new driver hiring. 

For more information on developing company hiring and qualification standards, see the Recruiting chapter in this manual. 

Engineering Coundl, UK Standards for Professional Engineering Competence The Accreditation of Higher Education Programs, 2004. Available at http //www.engc.org.uk/ professional-qualifications/standards/UK-SPEC. Accessed November 11,2013. 

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