Responsibilities devolving

During an attack communication between Garrison Commanders and the various defence posts was to be maintained by telephone, but should the land lines become disrupted then responsibility devolved upon a squad of motorcycle despatch riders. As a last-ditch resort, two lofts of carrier-pigeons were kept to maintain communication should even the despatch riders be unable to get through. After some negotiation, the two bird-keepers, Mr Bond and Mr Ashman of Pickwick Road in Corsham, although civilians, were authorized to indent for the birds ... 

The final way in which the EU ETS differs from many other trading systems is in the devolution of allocation responsibilities, in this case to its 25 Member States. This was an essential part of the deal that enabled the adoption of the Directive Member States would never have ceded to the European Commission the power to distribute valuable assets to their industries. Nor is the EU ETS unique in devolving powers of allocation it is typical in a number of US systems. Moreover, there are different degrees of harmonization, applicable to different aspects of the EU ETS, and the Commission can and does seek to increase the degree of harmonization through guidance notes (del Rio Gonzales, 2006). 

The central theme of authenticity and its social negotiation has been pursued in this chapter mainly in relation to cultural settings. In this natural-environment example the quest for authenticity is transmuted into the experience and appreciation of naturalness. Wildlife in their natural environment, behaving naturally, were key responses of all post-visit tourists. The ability to observe wildlife at close quarters reiterates the theme that quality encounters matter. This line of thinking is consistent with the view expressed earlier in this chapter that authenticity is devolving into more specific and localised concepts in accounting for tourists on-site experiences. 

Even more significantly, risk assessment responsibilities have been devolved to the private sector. Registration of chemicals produced or imported in quantities of at least 10 t per manufacturer and per year (pm/py) must be accompanied by a Chemical Safety Report (CSR), which is a renamed but other otherwise largely unchanged risk assessment as formerly required from NRAs under Directives 67/548/EEC20 and 93/67/EEC.21... 

The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl s intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man.29... 

Much of the responsibility for the operation and management of access security controls will devolve on the assigned System Administrator. The System Administrator is the person who will effect the measures required to maintain and operate the database within a compliant framework. These are ... 

I. The technical editor of an organic chemicals firm, in reviewing past difficulties, stressed the pirating of personnel among AEC contractors. He told of filling a chemist-editor s position by compromising for a biologist who had once prepared army parts manuals, only to have him snatched away by a competitor in less time than the 9 months it had taken to fill the position I He likewise deplored the personnel turnover in the library and related how the responsibility for it finally devolved upon the reports file super-... 

The official duties and responsibilities of hospital stewards were set down by Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833-1884) in The Hospital Steward s Manual - Because the hospital steward had, under the direction of the surgeon, general supervision over aU aspects of the entire hospital,23 the manual covers not only his duties but those for whom he was responsible wardmasters, nurses, female nurses, cooks, and laundresses. Virtually everyone, except physicians, reported to the steward, who served as the hospital s chief administrator. On the instractions of the senior medical officer, aU issues of order and security, light and ventilation, quality and quantity of food, cleanliness and orderliness of the wards and grounds devolved to the steward. In accordance with the breadth of his responsibilities, he was to receive obedience from all non-commissioned officers, enlisted men, and citizen nurses in the hospital. 24 As part of the steward s regular duties, he was also supposed to make thorough inspections of the entire... 

Upon the steward in charge of the dmgstore devolves the responsibility of compounding the prescriptions of the medical officers. The following brief remarks on this subject may perhaps, therefore, be found useful. 

The responsibility, risks, and rewards of investing profit-sharing money devolve upon employees, as they do with 401k plans. They begin as soon as the first contribution is credited and last through retirement. Money re-... 

Whereas just war theory has been regarded historically as being directed at only the very highest levels of political and military leadership, responsibility is increasingly being devolved to lower levels politicians in general, civil servants, officers and ordinary service people . 

The Republic of Sudan has a federal system of government in which power shall effectively be devolved. Pending a final decision on the status of Darfur in accordance with this Agreement, responsibility shall be distributed between the national and other levels of government in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. 

Much attention will usually inevitably devolve onto the provision of gloves, barrier creams, skin cleansers and after-work creams. Interest should be expressed during the visit in the methods of selection of such products and their resulting suitability for the job(s) in question. It may be worthwhile, on occasion, to ask to meet the individual(s) at the plant responsible for such decisions. You will find that such personnel often betray the fact, or know only too well themselves, that they do not have adequate knowledge on which to base their purchasing strategy. Your visit may then act as a catalyst for an employer to acquire more expertise in the area of prevention, as well as in the initial prediction of risk from contact irritants and allergens. 

I have looked back at these four courses to see whether there is anything to be learnt which may be of help to us in our coming deliberations. Personally, I find some disappointment that over the nine years there seems to have been so little response to the distilled wisdom. Programmes still seem to devolve from the tenet that if sufficient people say that the tokamak is good, and say it often enough, then indeed the tokamak must be good ... 

Institutionally, privatization replaced a unified vertical command structure with a complicated structure of some sixty independent businesses contracting with each other. Some of these had previous railway experience, others had none. The new structure separated the operation and the maintenance of the infrastructure from the operation of train services. At the centre of the new structure are the infrastructure controllers, the only widespread element in the new system (HSE, 1996 129) and important because they have been allocated central safety responsibilities (see below). Railtrack, which was set up in April 1994, is so far the only infrastructure controller and as such it owns and manages the track, signalling, and other operational infrastructure of the railways. The company is devolved geographically into ten zones. BR remains in operation to control those parts of the industry not yet privatized, so the company is effectively being slowly run down. 

Involving teachers directly in curriculum development is widely seen as the right way forward. Myron Atkin and Paul Black (1996) report how, in the majority of the international sample of development projects that they surveyed for the OECD, considerable responsibility was devolved to teachers for deciding content and approaches. 

Alternatively, one could argue that if the individual is to retain full health through his/her normal span of life then the management of safety at work must be a shared social responsibility. Such a responsibility cannot be devolved to industrial companies or to individual risk-exposed workers. And if this is the case, the social control of occupational safety should be well defined, functionally supported by valid preventative legislation, and underpinned by a well-resourced and competent industrial safety inspectorate. 

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