Recommendations implementation concepts

This issue has been addressed by a number of groups, including the ANS Scaborg Panel. Their conclusion has been that States should be called on to meet specified minimum standards of physical security, and that their performance in doing so should be monitored by an international authority, preferably the IAEA. Unfortunately, despite the general support for the concept, effective action to implement these recommendations has not taken place. 

The text summarises the activities and outcome of the Organic HACCP project (www.organichaccp.org) that was completed in 2005, how a database of critical control points (CCPs) was developed for some representative supply chains and how this was used to define a set of recommendations that were then developed into leaflets with advice to producers, processors, retailers or consumers, respectively. The chapter will thus explain how companies at every step of the production chain can utilise the concepts to improve customer satisfaction in a cost-effective manner. Finally, it will describe an example of implementation in a group of collaborating companies and suggest where additional activities are needed in order to develop the concept further. 

This chapter develops characteristics of high quality recommendations necessary for achieving successful implementation. The first section is a presentation of the major concepts related to recommendations, such as attributes of good recommendations, management of change, and inherent safety. The second section expands on the attributes and presents a systematic discussion of the flowchart for recommendations. 

Use Consistent Terminology and Concepts. Consistency of usage is needed within and between projects (see above on varied definitions of reference populations, for example). This is a recommendation that can be implemented quickly and relatively easily. Ultimately, this should become part of a larger effort to train various constituencies on what biomonitoring can and cannot tell one about environmental chemicals in humans. Both efforts are vital if there is to be any hope of establishing a minimum of shared knowledge among constituencies so that communicators eventually will not need to recapitulate the entire spectrum of education for each new project. 

The recommendations on waste classification should focus on concepts, principles, and approaches to implementation. Recommendations on approaches to using assumed limits on risk or dose to establish quantitative boundaries of waste classes expressed as limits on concentrations of hazardous substances would be presented, and precedents that could be used to define the assumed limits on risk or dose and to assess risk or dose for purposes of waste classification would be discussed. However, specific recommendations on values of any such limits and many of the considerations involved in establishing them would not be given, because this is properly the role of policy makers and regulatory authorities. 

This Section presents NCRP s recommendations on a framework for a comprehensive and risk-based hazardous waste classification system. These recommendations focus primarily on the concepts and principles embodied in the new system. Approaches to implementing the waste classification system by specifying quantitative boundaries of different waste classes in the form of limits on concentrations of hazardous substances are discussed in this Section and in Section 6.4.5, and numerical examples are developed in Section 7.1. However, NCRP believes that the task of specifying such boundaries is properly the role of regulatory authorities, and specific recommendations on limits on concentrations of hazardous substances in different waste classes are not presented. 

Measuring outcomes can seem to be a daunting task. This may have been why Anita s boss, pharmacist Pat (in the scenario), did not implement the corporate CQI program as recommended by his district manager. Thus the remainder of this chapter will present these concepts in an easy-to-understand manner and will include simple implementation tips. 

When one lodes into the details of the Capacity 21 programme, it is evident that environmental information is considered basic to the concept — within the 6 steps proposed by UNDP for the implementation of their programme, 2 make specific reference to the need for networks. Information and data collection are among the tools recommended for institutional and policy support. 

Review system s FDS against the URS This will determine if the design concept for each system within the open system being offered is in accordance with the original user requirements. The review will identify where functionality is not to be implemented (due to technology or cost limitations) and where extra functionality is offered (due to enhancements to operation recommended by the system supplier or because the functionaUty is standard on the system being offered). The results of this review should be documented in either a URS/FDS Review Report or as part of a DQ Report. 

It is noted that the updated European standard for resistance of hot asphalts to fatigue (CEN EN 12697-24 2012) has implemented the dissipating energy concept in the recommended testing procedures. 

A key concept of the lEC 61508 as mentioned before is the implementation of a safety lifecycle that includes hardware and software development life cycles for the safety functions. The AOP 52 recommends the usage of a lifecycle during development of hardware and software. One can say that there is a basic correspondence between the key concept of using process models for the development of safety critical systems. 

In Chap. 4, the concept of introductory courses was presented and explained. Introductory courses may include elements of design-implement experiences provided that they do not rely on specific technical disciplinary knowledge. In fact, we recommend that students encounter their first design-implement experience in an introductory course since it is a good way of introducing disciplinary... 

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