Reported Significant Observation Studies

A modification of The Critical Incident Technique was published by the Division of Safety, Standards, and Compliance of the United States Energy Research and Development Administration in 1976. Because the method was also to be applied in the nuclear industry, where the terms Critical and Incident have their own connotations, a new name was used Reported Significant Observation (RSO) Studies. In a paper with that title, it is said that RSO was formally recognized as a significant hazard reduction tool. ... 

Reported Significant Observation (RSO) Studies. Division of Safety, Standards, and Compliance of the United States Energy and Development Administration. Springfield, VA National Technical Information Service, 1976. 

SSDC 5 Reported Significant Observation (RSO) Studies SSDC 6 Training as Related to Behavioral Change SSDC 7B DOE Guide to the Classification of Recordable Accidents SSDC 8 Standardization Guide for Construction and Use of MORT Type Analytic Trees... 

Reproductive Toxicity. Increased miscarriages were reported in one study of nurse-anesthetists exposed to trichloroethylene and other solvents (Corbett et al. 1974). A retrospective case-control study has should an approximate 3-fold increase in spontaneous abortion in women exposed to trichloroethylene and other solvents (Windham et al. 1991). Significant effects on sperm parameters were not observed in men occupationally exposed to trichloroethylene (Rasmussen et al. 1988). Adverse reproductive effects were not noted in humans that ingested water contaminated with trichloroethylene and other solvents (Byers et al. 

Initial tests of Brownian pumping required the measurement of Th in colloids separated from seawater samples. " Th proved to be an especially useful tracer of colloidal uptake of metal species because of its constant source and relative abundance. Baskaran et al. (1992) and Moran and Buesseler (1992) used cross-flow filtration to separate the colloidal fraction and both studies reported significant (up to 78% of total) " Th in this fraction. Subsequent work largely supported these observations (Moran and Buesseler 1993 Huh and Prahl 1995) and suggested the importance of colloidal organic matter in scavenging Th (Niven et al. 1995). 

On this point, the findings were mixed, as a significant increase in fractional Ca absorption p <. 01) resulting from consumption of 8 g/day of a blend of inulin and FOS was measured in the Houston cohort however, no significant effect was observed in the Omaha cohort. No gastrointestinal issues associated with the use of inulin were reported for these studies. 

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