Safety management local assessment systems

Much of this is also changing with international lending organizations such as the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank requiring environmental risk assessments to be conducted as part of the development project. Many countries now have their own local risk assessment experts and are not as dependent on outside expertise as they formerly were. One thing is sure safety does save money. Throughout this book, you can see numerous examples and sources of cost-benefit to safety. Businesses attribute this to better preventative safety management systems. 

An initial coordinahon is made with the location having a safety management system review. The preassessment is to begin the coordination with local leadership on the requirements of the assessment, its planning, and communicahon. 

One of the main objectives is to establish a transparent information system, which will enable everybody who is concerned about chemical food safety to obtain reliable information and data on the regulation and control of the food in their daily diet. This means that expert knowledge and expertise should reach the general public, i.e. all interested consumers. To these ends, besides the project web-site (www.safefoodnet.net ). several local, regional and European workshops will be convened. These will be organized in 2006 in different European locations with the participation of local authorities and relevant stakeholders in order to discuss the results of the project, investigate areas of cooperation, and propose steps forward a better assessment and management of food safety. 

Managing reference data can be particularly troublesome when two or more systems are merged for example when two local systems are being replaced by a single alternative and there is a need to preserve historical cliifical data. Each system is likely to have its own reference data and, particularly over time, it is common for these datasets to have similar purposes but with different content. For example, a Patient Administration System may have five different options for Admission type whilst the Electronic Health Record may have seven different options for that same field. Whilst it might be possible to live with this discrepancy on a day-to-day basis, the situation suddenly becomes very complex when it is necessary to merge the two datasets. Any proposed solutions need a careful safety assessment. 

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