Safety information, communicated

Table 10.1 A multilevel model of safety information communication...

This guideline describes methods to help the chemical processing industry apply the CCPS chemical process safety concepts to outsourced manufacturing operations, specifically the tolling vendor-client relationship. In addition to the focus on process safety, information and examples provided in this text foster good practices relative to community and worker health, and environmental responsibility. 

Examining the lists above makes it clear that a good toller-client relationship with open and honest communication of process safety information, process hazard analysis input and early recognition of issues can help avoid potential problems. 

Considering the merchant nature of the tolling business, these informal communications must still respect the confidentiality concerns and restrictions on both parties. While specific experience in allied technologies often may not be disclosed, it is incumbent on both parties to establish means to convey critical safety issues without disclosure of otherwise confidential information. 

Cover means of communicating health and safety information m all workplaces. Include illuminated signs, alarms, verbal communication, fire safety signs, marking of pipework, etc. 

Make sure your company s short-term objectives (e.g., updating aii P IDs) are consistent with broader PSM goais (e.g., accurate process safety information), sind communicate them in ways that clearly encourage work habits and procedures that support PSM performance. For exampie, your employees need to understand that the company will achieve its goal of reducing reportable incidents by changing its PSM procedures, not its reporting processes. 

Integration of reactive hazard information into process safety information, operating procedures, training, and communication practices. 

This document was drawn up at the international workshop on Future Perspectives in Pharmacovigilance, Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, 28 June-2 July 2006. It shares file values of file ice Declaration on Communicating Drug Safety Information of 1997, and of the Luxembourg Declaration on Patient Safety of 2005, but focuses on new and urgent contemporary issues. 

Guidance1 Drug Safety Information—FDA s Communication to the Public... 

Meeting the FDA s key goal, to ensure the safety of prescription drugs, requires not only evaluation of risks before approval but also communicating safety information to the public. The first half of the 2001 document presented below explains how the agency works toward this goal. 

III. WHAT DRUG SAFETY INFORMATION DOES FDA COMMUNICATE ... 

V. WHEN DOES FDA COMMUNICATE EMERGING DRUG SAFETY INFORMATION ... 

Table Summary of Selected Methods for FDA Communication of Drug Safety Information...

In addition to signs at the workplace and information leaflets, safety data sheets (SDS) are one of the primary tools for communicating risk and safety information (see [164, 195, 195]). 

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