Resistance to change

The introduction of a new safety and health system or element of a safety management system, such as near miss incident reporting, will inevitably be met with resistance from various levels and individuals within the organization. This is normal and expected as with any new safety idea, program, or drive. 

There are four main reasons for resistance to change. 

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ISO 877, Determination of Resistance to Change upon Exposure under Glass to Daylight, ISO, Geneva, Swit2edand, 1976. 

Durability. The term "durable" has several meanings, but in the present context it is used to describe an asphalt that possesses the necessary chemical and physical properties required for the specified pavement performance, being resistant to change during the in-service conditions that are prevalent during the life of the pavement. 

Resistance to change. The unwillingness of many businesses to change is rooted in their reluctance to tiy technologies that may be unproven or based on a combination of the barriers discussed in this section. 

Educational campaign. The training and promotion of PTPM philosophy is a must. This is useful to reduce the resistance to change. The education should cover how PTPM will be beneficial to both the corporation and the individuals. 

Stability implies a resistance to change, and may be defined qualitatively in those terms. In the specific case at hand, stability is defined as resistance to molecular or chemical disturbance. This requirement recognizes that a flocculated dispersion may be more stable than a peptized dispersion from the standpoint of its future behavior. A physically stable dispersion is one which will not undergo molecular replacements at the interface between the dispersed solid and the continuous phase. 

Mass is a measure of the quantity of material in a sample. We can measure that mass by its inertia —the resistance to change in its motion—or by its weight—the attraction of the sample to the earth. Since weight and mass are directly proportional as long as we stay on the surface of the earth, chemists often use the terms interchangeably. (Physicists do not do that.)... 

A buffer solution is a solution of a weak acid and its conjugate base or a weak base and its conjugate acid. The main property of a buffer solution is its resistance to changes in its pH despite addition of small quantities of strong acid or strong base. The student must know the following three things about buffer solutions ... 

The neuromuscular junction and muscle are more resistant to changes in sodium concentration, to which they are minimally permeable at rest. In fact, the consequences of sodium disturbance relate instead to the role of this ion in maintaining the osmotic equilibrium between the brain and plasma and range from depression of consciousness, coma and seizures caused by hyponatremia, to brain shrinkage and tearing of superficial blood vessels due to excessive serum osmolarity due to hypernatremia. 

If a wave function is an approximate one, as is usually the case, p. will not be constant everywhere and electron density should move from regions where p. is too positive to regions where p. is too negative. This will equalize p, and also change the assumed p to a better one. The hardness acts as a resistance to changes in p due to differences in p. The energy will decrease from °, the value calculated for the approximate wave function, to E, a better one. 

Serum calcium levels were depressed with the feeding of 18 to 100 g of wheat bran to human subjects in the study by Heaton and Pomare (10) but were unaffected by the feeding of approximately 20 g of wheat fiber in the study by Jenkins et al. (19). Since blood serum calcium levels tend to be resistant to change except under conditions of severe calcium deficiency, measurement of blood serum calcium levels is probably not sufficiently sensitive to indicate change in calcium nutritional status in short-term feeding studies. 

Figure 5. The effect of proton beam sensitivity (QH at 125 keV) on the response (i p) of the MOTSS copolymer resists to changes in proton beam energy.

An OECD study identifies several barriers for a new technology to penetrate the market (OECD, 2002). These are lack of awareness, cognitive dissonance, lack of concern for future generations, fear of and resistance to change and, finally, lack of adequate professional advice. Each of these barriers must be countered with special measures if the acceptance for a new technology, in this case hydrogen, is to be increased. 

O O Because blood is buffered, it resists changes in pH. To model blood s resistance to changes in pH, design an investigation that compares the effects of adding an acid or a base to buffered and non-buffered systems. Your teacher will tell you what materials you may use. The following tips and suggestions will help you get started. 

Enter Charles Goodyear. Charles had no background in science, wasn t well known, and he had a lot of debt from a failed hardware store. What Charles did have, though, was a powerful desire to invent things. Charles became fascinated with rubber and how to make it more stable and resistant to changes in temperature. 

Resistance to change There is reluctance to change to an unknown technology, has different technological properties and depends on skilled operators. 

Considerable inertia in established practices can be observed everywhere, a tediousness and resistance to change, against which the substitution of hazardous substances has to struggle. Although in many cases the problems of hazardous substances are evident to a large extent, and although substitutes are available, indeed available for many areas of application, the substitution process is not progressing. The substitution of asbestos was a typically extremely tedious process (cf chapter 2.2). 

Until recently there has been a great resistance to change from this batch processing model, driven by several factors ... 

Resistance to change is overcome and qnality management is achieved throngh the ongoing incremental improvement of the laboratory processes. 

Viscosity is a property of a fluid indicating its resistance to change of form (or resistance to flow). It is expressed as g/cm sec or Poise 1 Poise = 100 centipoise. 

Is chemically resistant to changes in pH, while cement grout tends to be broken up by either high or low pH. 

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