Risk communication useful guidelines

The safe and effective use of lithium is best ensured by close collaboration among patients, physicians, and significant others, all of whom must remain well-informed and up to date about treatment guidelines, benefits, adverse effects, risks, and precautions. While verbal communication and education is invaluable, it should be constructively supplemented with written information (45,46). 

Tube wall or skin temperature is an important reliability parameter and should be closely monitored, and guidelines for tube fife can be developed. Guidelines should be effectively communicated to operators so that appropriate mbe temperature can be determined that could meet the production requirement while minimizing the risk of mbe damage. It is important for operators to know that over-firing is the main cause of mbe damage. Process plants use skin thermocouples and infrared pyrometers to monitor TWTs. 

Environmental Risk assessments (ERA), Directive 2001/83/EC — Community code relating to medicinal products for human use and Guideline on the ERA... 

Many pieces of data are not known precisely. When an organization has not experienced a particular negative event, it may be oblivious to that risk and loss potential. It is crucial that the safety manager follow aitical thinking guidelines. The assumptions and uncertainty in the inputs should be considered in each step of the assessment s methodology to determine how they affect the outputs. Uncertainty in the outputs should then be communicated to the decision maker, as well as the assumptions that underpin the analysis. It is also useful to consider the impact of the uncertainty and how sensitive the assessment of risk is to particular pieces of uncertain data. 

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