Safety consciousness

The foregoing comparison of different valve arrangements for both full main air blower trains and TPG trains emphasizes its importance. The range of desired regenerator control, expected modes of operation, and system constraints all influence the choice of valve aiTangements. The selected arrangement depends on safety consciousness, cost considerations, and desired process flexibility. 

For a more thorough discussion of the safety consciousness one should develop when working with hydrogen, see our article on Heatin with Hydrogen (Home Power 34). The bottom line is ... 

Koivisto, R. 1996. Safety-Conscious Process Design. Espoo Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT Publications 264. 

A Some of the most interesting and informative experiments in this field were done by Pepper s group and then at Keele and elsewhere with anhydrous perchloric acid as the initiator. It is therefore historically important that in the present super-cautious, safety conscious era, few, if any, workers are ever likely to follow Pepper s pioneering work with this hazardous material, to test the reproducibility of these classical findings. The same applies of course to our studies on the polymerisation of various 1,3-dioxacycloalkanes, most of which were also done with anhydrous HC104, see Chapter 7. There is no substitute for it, as every acid behaves differently and in particular the lazy worker s substitute aq. HC104 + acetic anydride, is a very different initiator system. 

The need for safety consciousness around x-ray equipment is well known. In health and dental care facilities, rooms in which x-ray equipment is used are shielded so that x-ray technicians need only to step out of the room behind a shielded wall in order to be protected. Patients are shielded with lead aprons. 

The second layer of defenses is the supervision slice. This refers to the hrst-line supervisor and his or her safety-consciousness as well as organizational factors as displayed hy the operational decisions he or she makes. 

Measurement of power quality requires the use of proper instrumentation to suit the application. The user of the instrument must be well trained in the use and care of the instrumentation. The engineer should be knowledgeable in the field of power quality. Most importantly, the engineer should be safety conscious. All these factors are equally important in solving power quality problems. As indicated earlier, power quality work requires patience, diligence, and perseverance. It is very rare that the solution to a problem will present itself accidentally, although it does happen occasionally. Power quality work has its rewards. One that the author cherishes the most is the satisfaction of knowing that he has left clients happier than when he first met them. 

I didn t insist. She onfy Kved a few hundred yards away, and most of that was on the main road. There was a point where being safety conscious became paranoia. StiO, I watched throu the window as she went down the drive. 

No. My grandchildren were given computers. Of course, when 1 was young, chemistry didn t have the bad image it has today, and there was almost no safety consciousness. Dangerous experiments were part of the fun. 1 escaped several serious accidents in my basement laboratory, but my right hand was badly burned by the white phosphorus bomb I had concocted. 

Have fun, and always be safety conscious, so that you can have many more days of experimenting and discovery. 

The effectiveness of any hazard avoidance program is, of course, directly dependent upon the training and safety consciousness of the operators implementing the process. We have addressed this question for years with an involved training program which covers in detail the entire spectrum of different procedures the operator will be expected to carry out. 

The 1970s had opened with the first oil crisis. This geopolitical event made political leaders seek alternative energy sources. The chemical profession followed the money. Since grants were awarded for work on alternative energy sources and environmental issues, chemists started work in such areas. They became environmentally conscious (Baird 1995) and started cleaning-up their operation, whether in industrial plants or in academic laboratories. Everybody became safety-conscious, and pollution of the environment became drastically curtailed (Ember 1991, Rodrick 1992, McGinn 2000). 

To maintain safety-conscious personnel, safety must be a priority with the well service company s management as well as with the oil company s personnel. Neither the service company nor the oil company should ignore unsafe practices. 

If it s going to cost them money, they don t care. .. I think they d go to any extreme to save money, regardless of whose life it endangered... They will put up the facade of being safety-conscious, but the reality of working conditions - that is of little concern, because fixing them would reduce profits. .. They just want their profit and nothing else matters, (pp. 63-4)... 

Clarence J. Schilling, A Few Experiences on the Broad Highway Leading to Safety Consciousness, in Howard H. Fawcett and William S. Wood (editors). Safety and Accident Prevention in Chemical Operations, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1965, pp. 7-9. 

Gyekye, S. A., Salminen, S. (2005). Are good soldiers safety conscious An examination of the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviors and perceptions of workplace safety. Social Behavior and Personality, 33, 805-820. 

For scales to measure other safety-related factors, the reader can consult Costa and Anderson (2011) for trust measures Zohar (2000) for safety climate measures Barling et al. (2002) for safety consciousness Sneddon et al. (2013) for situational awareness Neal and Griffin (2006) for safety participation and compliance Chmiel (2005) for bending the rules Cox and Cox (1991) for safety skepticism Neal et al. (2000) for safety knowledge and safety motivation Tucker et al. (2008) for employee safety voicing Tucker et al. (2008) for perceived organizational and perceived co-worker support for safety and Diaz-cabera et al. (2007) for safety culture. Another good source of information on safety measures are meta-analyses (e.g., Christian et al. 2009 Clarke 2006). 

Co-workers should realize that new employees are a safety risk, and pose a danger both to themselves and to other workers. A safety advantage may be gained by workers responding in a positive (safety conscious way) when a new employee joins a workplace. Furthermore, new employees may be expecting that co-workers will actively engage with them to ensure their (and others) safety. 

The principles of the safety conscious helping culture, and the reason for training in the think before you help process Safety risks associated with helping, and reasons why employees in their initial period of employment are instmeted not to engage in helping... 

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