Safety best practices

As noted, socialization processes are likely to be perceived in a similar way to prestart training. That is, if an organization has a socialization process where new employees are introduced to safety policy and procedures, it might be reasonable to assume that this will have a positive impact on the new employee s safety-related behavior on the job. A study by Mullen (2004) supported this proposition, finding that early socialization processes could have a positive influence on safety behavior. Of course, socialization processes may have no effect at all. A new employee, who is asked during socialization to learn the organization s safety policy and procedures, understand the organization s emphasis on safety (its safety culture in the form of norms, beliefs, roles, attitudes, and practices), and learn how to complete appropriate forms (such as hazard sheets, near miss reports), may simply not achieve these expected outcomes. To help increase the chances that socialization will have a positive impact on new employees safety, best practice should be adopted. 

DEFENTTION— Implementation of Medication Safety Best Practices in the care environment. 

Educate The first step toward building a culture of safety throughout an organization is education. This area provides information and resources for safety managers to use in educating themselves, their workforce and management about safety best practices and principles. 

A safety argument must explain how the available evidence supports the overall claim of acceptable safety. Best practice, risk-based, safety arguments decompose this claim into arguments that justify the acceptability of the risk posed by identified system hazards. For each hazard, the argument states what adequately addressed means for that hazard and then identifies the evidence supporting the conclusion. This structure explains the purpose of each piece of evidence. 

Communicating safety information both internally within the safety oversight organization and to industry is paramount to safety improvements. Lessons learned need to be shared and both groups need to be educated to safety best practices. The two key activities of this office are to... 

Roles and Responsibilities Identifying, clearly defining, and documenting roles and responsibilities of employees directly or indirectly involved with regulatory compliance and safety best practices, and assigning and reinforcing these continued responsibilities. 

Fisher, R.J. (2000), Application of Safety Best Practice at AngloGold. In Proceedings of Minesafe Intematiorral 2000 . Perth WA WA Department of Minerals and Energy. 

Trans/ormaf/onol Leadership Style Predicts Safety Best Practices... 

Ignition Sources Normally it is best practice not to base explosion safety solely on the presumed absence of an ignition source. Explosion control should be based on prevention or protection techniques, or both. Even so, all reasonable measures should be taken to eliminate ignition sources. 

Investigations of incidents associated with tolling projects have identified that appropriate selection of a toller based upon proper equipment and expertise is important in reducing the likelihood of future process safety related incidents and environmental releases. It is likewise important to review toller safety, health, and environmental practices (current and past) in the selection process. This review can identify those practices that would need to be modified to be acceptable. Eliminating less qualified candidate firms at an early stage is a best practice. 

The safety alert concept is another tool that can be used by large or small businesses to communicate past best practices and indicate a path forward. On a daily basis, lessons learned should be communicated in a site safety meeting. A worker or supervisor may have discovered that a current practice could cause a potentially dangerous situation. Many times the correction or long-term fix for a hazard involves engineering... 

Section 11 of the 1968 Act states that Sections 1-10 of the 1956 Act and Sections 1-16 of the 1968 Act shall not apply to works subjected to the Alkalis Act (those premises now listed in the Health and Safety (Emission into Atmosphere Regulations)). These premises are therefore subject to enforcement by HMIP. However, sub-Section 3 of Section 11 does contain a proviso for the local authority, upon application to the Minister, to ask for an Order applying the Acts to the whole or part of the schedule works. If an Order is made, best practical means is applied to all (alkali) works whether or not provided for in the two Clean Air Acts. 

Taylor, B. T. et al. (2000) HAZOP A Guide to Best Practice (Institution of Chemical Engineers, London). USAEC (1975) Reactor Safety Study, WASH-1400 (United States Atomic Energy Commission). 

Consumers expectations about the safety of products such as poultry meat and eggs have never been higher. The need to improve food safety has led to renewed attention on controlling contamination at all stages of the supply chain from farm to fork . This collection reviews the latest research and best practice in ensuring the safety of poultry meat and eggs, both on the farm and in subsequent processing operations. 

BPT = Best Practicable (Control) Technology EPA - Environmental Protection Agency FDA = Food and Drug Administration FSIS = Food Safety Inspection Service IARC = International Agency for Research on Cancer NSPS = New Source Performance Standards OWRS = Office of Water Regulations and Standards PSES = Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources PSNS = Pretreatment Standards for New Sources RfD Dose u.f. = Uncertainty Factor... 

The employees, particularly the workers at the plants that would be exposed to the hazards to safety and health created by the raw material, the intermediates, and the finished products and by-products. A plant that is unsafe to workers would not be able to recruit the most capable staff, would not be able to manufacture the best products, and would encourage the formation of militant labor unions and punitive regulations. It is in the self interest of the manufacturers to make sure that the workplace is safe and to adopt the best practice. There is also a recent tendency for manufacturing to move to regions and nations where plant safety rules are less rigorously posted and enforced. 

First, consider efficiency. Many people incorrectly assume that, in the absence of codes, consumers would be helpless against greedy firms. But without codes, builders would compete on the basis of safety and features, and consumers could hire inspectors to evaluate structural quality (which already happens during mortgage inspections). Builders could also hire firms to certify that their structures comply with best practice (the construction equivalent of Underwriters Laboratories). Uncertified builders would be at a quality disadvantage. 

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Extra 6 Safety thresholds and best practices for extractables and leachables in orally inhaled and nasal drug products, PQRI Leachables and Extratables Working Group, available http //www.pqri.org/pdfs/ LE Recommendations to FDA 09-26-06.pdf. 

Debate the safety advantages and disadvantages of digital photography as compared to film photography. Consider not only safety issues but also photo quality. When considering safety, discuss darkroom best practices procedures and when considering quality, discuss photo size. 

To minimize subjectivity of safety judgments, information about the required behaviour of the system under construction and the project and its context itself is to be collected. The broad picture should include designers competence, tools efficiency, criteria of acceptance of their work, their responsibilities and dependence, or how data about the past are indicative of future trends and what the risks we are willing to accept in the future, agreements on best practice or limitations of knowledge and technology ... 

Last, but not least, safety is considered in terms of the analysis of the risks associated with potential hazards identified by detailed consideration of the proposed process flowsheet. Safety is the number one concern for chemical engineers and the reader should not confuse the fact that it is the focus of the final chapter in this book with its order of importance. However, in order to carry out a hazard study and risk assessment, one must understand the concepts on which a process flowsheet is developed, and these are covered in the preceding chapters. The procedure describe in Chapter 10 is recognised as best practice in the process industry sector. 

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