Safety considerations contracts

Department of Defense policy is to rely on performance based requirements whenever practicable and to not require standard management approaches or manufacturing processes in solicitations and contracts. By establishing performance requirements and then relying on contractors to meet those requirements, we dramatically reduce contractual call-out of specific specifications and standards and enable innovation. Most importantly, this allows contractors to meet our full needs—including safety considerations—at the lowest cost. 

This interim SoBP applies to the activities of contract assessment, software development, assurance, verification and validation and initial acceptance. It does not consider the in-service phase, nor does it consider in detail the concept and assessment phases. Nevertheless, many of the in-service issues are similar in scope to those presented here, especially considerations such as upgrading systems and die use of COTS products. It is the intent that further woik will be performed to provide guidance on through-life safety considerations, including operational safety. 

Prazosin, doxazosin, and terazosin are all efficacious in patients with BPH. These drugs are particularly useful in patients who also have hypertension. Considerable interest has focused on which -receptor subtype is most important for smooth muscle contraction in the prostate subtype-selective K1A-receptor antagonists might lead to improved efficacy and safety in treating this disease. As indicated above, tamsulosin is also efficacious in BPH and has relatively minor effects on blood pressure at a low dose. This drug may be preferred in patients who have experienced orthostatic hypotension with other -receptor... 

Estimates of the number of people injured by pesticides vary widely but may be 100-times the accidental death rate on a worldwide basis (j5, 6). In 1985, 2500 occupationally-related accidental pesticide poisonings were officially reported in California and the real number of injuries may be considerably higher. Neither is the record of safety in pesticide manufacturing in the USA unblemished. Serious injuries to workers involved in manufacturing the insecticide chlordecone, the nematicide dibromochloropropane (DBCP), and, possibly, the insecticide leptophos have been reported in the last 15 years (4, ). There is preliminary but disquieting epidemiological evidence that frequent users of some herbicides may have an elevated risk of contracting cancer, particularly if standard safety precautions are not observed (e.g. 7.,8). 

If the onployed agreed, in consideration of special remuneration, or otherwise, to work under conditions in which the care which the employer ought to bestow by providing proper machinery or otherwise, to secure the safety of the employed, was wanting, and to take the risk of their absence, he would no doubt be held to his contract, and this whether sudi contract were made at the inception of the service or during its continuance. But no such case is in question here. There is no evidence that any such contract was entered into. (Atiyah, 1979, p. 707)... 

In this section, the risks which the client, engineer and contractor undertake, have been sketched very briefly. The subjects of contract law, bonding and insurance are complicated but, as we will discover in later chapters, very important in considerations of structural safety. 

System Level Safety requirements exist at the aircraft, system, item, component and material level (refer, inter alia, ARP4754A para 4.1.3). The contracting agency and the assessor therefore must consider the system level of the design and scope the assessment accordingly. The illustration in Fig. 1.1 shows a hierarchy which distinguishes between the different system levels. This illnstration, or a derivative thereof, can be applied to the SSA as it helps us define what the system under consideration is, and demonstrates that each level is supported by the key (i.e. summarised) results of the lower level assessments. For instance ... 

When safety requirements are clearly set forth in contract specifications, the probability of that sort of problem occurring is reduced considerably. Some safety professionals have demonstrated to their... 

Consideration should be given to the health and safety implications of decisions concerning finance, staffing, investments in new plant, premises, processes or products and to the health and safety attitude of the companies with whom contracts are placed. 

Culture is variously defined, but is generally accepted as being the collective sets of values, beliefs and ideals that exist within an or nization. In other words, It s the way we do things around here . Essentially, culture is established by what the leaders of an organization pay systematic attention to. A pro-active safety culture is typified by management s stated cormnitment, and its observed actions, in support of positive safety initiatives and outcomes. However, if, for example, leaders place a heavy focus on cost contairunent, or if there is a loss of some key contracts, then cost will become the dominant consideration and may well be placed ahead of arty other considerations, perhaps even its approach to safety. 

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