Safety committees Committee

Safe handling practices are essential at all stages of production, from the laboratory to the manufacturing operations. The safety committee should inspect and advise on processing equipment and be responsible for providing personal protection, eye wash fountains, safety showers, etc. 

CIA 1990. A Approach to the Categorization of Process Plant Hazard and Control Building Design. Prepared by Working Group 3 of the Major Hazards Steering Group. Issued by the Safety Committee of the Chemical Industry Safety and Health Council of the Chemical Industries Association, Eondon. 

A guide to the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989 - guidance on Regulations... 

Use it as a deskside book on safety. Dip into it at odd moments or pick a subject for the staff meeting, the safety committee or bulletin, or the plant inspection. 

Flame arresters meeting this specification also comply with the mini-mnm reqnirements of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Maritime Safety Committee Circnlar No. 373 (MSC/Circ. 373/Rev. 1). This specification is not widely nsed in the US chemical indnstry (Pietrowski 2000). 

The Chemical Safety Committee does not review chemicals used by contractors. 

From tire National Joint Health mid Safety Committee for Water Service. ... 

National Joint Health and Safety Committee for Water Service, Safety Aspects of Storage, Handling and Use of Chlorine and Sulfur Dioxide, London. April 1982. 

Where health and safety consultation is in place (e.g. joint safety committees) the structure with regards to members representation should be described. 

Provide technical support to, and membership in, the, Army Nuclear Weapons System Safety Committee... 

If you recognise a trade union and that trade union has appointed a safety represetv tathie, you must consult them on matters affecthg the emplr ees they represent -see Safety Reoresentatwes and Safety Committees Regulations 1997. 

If you have a health and safety committee, you could list what it does, who is on it and how often it meets. 

Prepare a formal safety review memo for the gas-fired furnace described in Problem 10-4 and shown in Figure 10-16. This memo will be given to each committee member before the formal safety review committee meeting. 

Professor Crowl has an active research program on flammability and reactivity and has published numerous papers in these areas. He serves on several AICHE/CCPS committees, including the Undergraduate Education Committee, the Technical Steering Committee, the Inherent Safety Committee, and the Risk Assessment Committee. He is also a member of the advisory committee for the Institute for Safety Through Design of the National Safety Council. 

International Titanium Association, The (ITA), safety committee of, 24 865 International Technical Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), 75 181 International temperature scales (ITS), 75 749 24 436... 

IPEC (1997). Europe Safety Committee The proposed new guidelines for safety evaluation of new excipients. Eur. Pharm. Rev. Nov. 1997 13-20. 

The SOCMA process safety committee informally shares information on incidents at member facilities, but it does not offer a formal incident reporting mechanism such as the ACC PSCMS. 

In addition to the publications cited above, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) committee and the American Petroleum Institute (API) recently have addressed various aspects of blast protection technology relevant to this report, tn particular, CCPS has developed (iuidetinexfor Evaluating (he Characteristics of Vapor ( loud Explosions, hi ash hires, at id... 

In December 2001, the NDF representative on the coproducers safety committee informally discussed the causes and corrective actions with the other coproducers. 

A 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine s Immunization Safety Review Committee concluded that available evidence favored rejection of a causal relation between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. In like manner, a recent retrospective cohort study conducted by the CDC did not support a causal association between early prenatal or postnatal exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines and neuropsychological functioning later in childhood. 

International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC). The proposed guidelines for the safety evaluation of new excipients, The IPEC Europe Safety Committee. Eur Pharm Rev 1997. 

College Safety Committee, Code of Practice against Radiation Hazards, 6th edn. Imperial College, London, 1973. 

The Environment, Health and Safety Committee shall have the authority and the responsibility to assess any and all aspects of the company s decisions that pertain to operating policies and practices at its facilities to determine their impact on worker safely and health and on the environment in and around its facilities and to make recommendations to the board of directors and the management of the company. 

However, the policy assigns ultimate responsibility for safety to line management. Even the chairman of the board of directors Environment, Health and Safety Committee is a line manager as vice president for manufacturing. 

In many cases sulfuric acid is present at the user s site as part of a manufacturing process. The hazard risk is then generally small and under control nevertheless, all operators or company health and safety committees should periodically reexamine their acid handling systems to ensure that all that can be done to prevent dangerous situations occurring is in fact being done. 

The Contrast Media Safety Committee of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) has produced guidelines on the effects of iodinated contrast media on thyroid function in adults (Table 1) (576). 

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