Red Flags

When near miss incidents like these happen, most workers are simply relieved they were not injured and then forget about what happened moments later. However, when employees narrowly avoid injury like this, they may have just been lucky (the three luck factors ). Because there was no injury, the event is not reported, therefore, the accident causes will not be identified or rectified. 

Another person is very likely to be injured by that very same hazard or practice in the future. In fact, the difference between a near miss incident and a serious injury (contact or no contact with a source of energy) is often a fraction of an inch or a split second of time. This can be defined as being lucky. These are red flags waving at employees to let them know something is unsafe and requires immediate attention. 

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At the end of each month, the field cost engineer collects all current information on a detailed cost report form. As these are actual costs, they can be used to estimate future job costs to completion. Daily reports of unit-cost progress for concrete, excavation, masonry, steel, piping, and electrical work, etc., are then used to predict possible overruns or underruns for the various items. Analysis and comparison with the original estimate point out trouble spots for early attention. If an item is running into difficulty, it is red-flagged to the resident and projec t engineers for remedial action. 

Alarm (or red flag) symptoms include worsening of constipation, blood in the stools, weight loss, fever, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting. 

Barium enema, sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy maybe indicated in the presence of red flag symptoms (fever, weight loss, bleeding, and anemia, which maybe accompanied by persistent severe pain), which often point to a potentially serious non-IBS problem. A barium enema may identify polyps, diverticulosis,... 

Refer any patient presenting with red flag signs for medical evaluation. 

TABLE 31-1. Headache Red Flags That, if Present, Warrant Urgent Further Evaluation... 

Deviation. How much each measurement differs from the mean is an important number and is called the deviation. A deviation is associated with each measurement, and if a given deviation is large compared to others in a series of identical measurements, the proverbial red flag is raised. Such a measurement is called an outlier. Mathematically, the deviation is calculated as follows ... 

Figure 2. Current view of post-translational histone phosphorylation. Red flag mammahan specific or common, Blue flag Drosophila melanogaster specific, Black flag Saccharomyces cerevisiae specific. (See Colour Plate 18.)...

Chemistry may be a practical science, but it also has its pitfalls. This icon raises a red flag to direct your attention to easily made errors or other triclty items. Pay attention to this material to save yourself from needless frustration. 

After loading the explosives, the appropriate Fire Division symbol should be displayed on the vehicle by the side of the red flag, for guidance to the firefighting personnel. If the vehicle is loaded with explosives of more than one Fire Division, the Fire Symbol to be displayed on the vehicle should be of the more hazardous Fire Division. 

Readers are left to consider the logic the most extreme temperature prediction model was chosen simply because it produced day and night temperatures. That should have been a red flag. If seasonal or annual temperature predictions from a model are unreliable or extreme, then the smaller-scale values, such as daily or intra-day values, are even more unreliable. The USNA Synthesis Team should have checked predictions from its chosen... 

Duds Destruction. Destruction can be achieved either by burning (for small items of ammunition) or, preferably, by detonation. As soon as a dud is located, it should be marked with.a red flag and reported to personnel trained for destruction of live ammunition. Whenever possible the dud should be destroyed at the spot where it is found. 

If you are invited to participate in a group interview with other applicants, a commission-only sales position is often being offered. If the employer evades questions about its product or service, or refers to extremely high income potential, that should definitely raise a red flag in your mind. 

Many supplement sellers make pretty much the same claims. Because of this, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) came up with a list of claims that are automatically considered red flags. The following are some claims that dishonest supplement makers advertise ... 

Equation (4.14) reveals that the lesser the oil viscosity, the larger the allowable water particle drop DM. The oil viscosity is appreciably lowered by increased temperature. It is thus concluded that temperature should be increased as much as is feasibly and economically practical. This statement, however, is not true for all cases, as increasing the temperature of heavy oil—say, 12°API and lower will decrease the density difference between the oil and water. I have personally witnessed this phenomenon in two projects. For oil 15°API and above, increased temperature causes little if any change in density difference. The red flag here, therefore, is to take caution if the oil gravity is below 15°API otherwise, apply as high a temperature as feasible. 

The 505(b)2 application process is mired in controversy. Many reviewers in the Agency seem obstructionist, apparently viewing the process as an attempt to skirt important regulatory controls. Many in the industry are (as a result) skeptical of the value of the approach, fearing it enters the process with a red flag mark against it. Yet the intent and value of the 505(b)2 provision are clear and positive. 

The reality is that the FDA does not generally track annual due dates at all, and the failure to file would not result in any short-term warning or action. At a later date, of course, when the complete document package is reviewed, a missing annual report will raise a red flag. But the responsibility to track and file annual reports rests solely with the submitting organization. 

The //-alkanes usually range in chain length from 21 to 31 or 33 carbons. Hydrocarbons with fewer than 20 carbons commonly occur as pheromones, defensive compounds and intermediates to pheromones and defensive compounds, but their volatility makes them unsuited to function as cuticular components, n-Alkanes have been found on almost every insect species analyzed, and can range from less than one percent of the total hydrocarbons, as in tsetse flies (Nelson and Carlson, 1986 Nelson et al., 1988) to almost all of the hydrocarbon fraction, as in the adult tenebrionid beetle, Eurychora sp. (Lockey, 1985). Depending upon the species, they can consist of essentially only one major component, such as n-pentacosane in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Jackson, 1972) to a series of //-alkanes, such as the series from C23 to C33 in the housefly, Musca domes-tica (Nelson et al., 1981), with trace amounts to C37 (Mpuru et al., 2001). In all cases, the odd-numbered alkanes predominate, due to their formation from mostly two carbon units followed by a decarboxylation (Blomquist, Chapter 3, this book). Small amounts of even-numbered carbon chain //-alkanes often occur, and presumably arise from chain initiation with a propionyl-CoA rather than an acetyl-CoA. Occasionally, gas chromatographic analyses reveal similar amounts of even-numbered chain //-alkanes and odd-numbered chain components. This is a red flag that the samples must be checked for contamination. 

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