Safety officer

Historic practices of calling safety professionals safety officers should be changed, as should their roles. They are safety advisors because of the role they play and should not be portrayed as punishers or enforcers. If safety staff believe that employees actions are the only cause of accidents and are intent on focusing on the fault of persons only, this mind-set should be changed as part of the safety culture change. 

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The FDA is headed by the Commissioner of Food and Dmgs. This position is not a Cabiaet-level office but falls within the PubHc Health Service (PHS), a division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The post of FDA Commissioner is subject to HHS pohtical clearance and Senate confirmation, and the Commissioner is ultimately accountable to HHS, Congress, and the President of the United States. The Commissioner has a staff to assist ia poHcy making and several deputy commissioners to oversee operation of ah. the subordinate units. FDA has six regional offices within the country, each responsible for a section of the country, and 21 district offices. Persons with technical background typicahy work ia one of FDA s chemistry laboratories or as investigators or consumer safety officers. 

Having qualified persons in the role of health and safety officer is required. How to determine minimum qualifications at each site is a site-specific task. It would depend on site activities, required and anticipated levels of protection, training requirements, general joh knowledge, and a variety of other factors. Sometimes choosing a qualified SSO can he quite difficult. The authors are in agreement that personally contacting references is very important. 

A systems crash in the Safety office destroyed work in progress, requiring that much of our data concerning process hazards analysis findings will need to be reconstructed. 

Where specialist knowledge is required, the relevant aspects should be clearly established and the respective persons made aware of such. This expertise can be obtained, for example, from the company s safety officer, chemist, etc. Finally, the policy statement should make clear the level of responsibility of every employee. 

Numerous leaflets can be obtained from the local offices of the Health and Safety Executive or HSE Information Points. Remember, if you have any doubts about the health and safety risks involved with respect to any substance you may consider using, or any work you are planning to undertake, seek advice. This information may be obtained from your company safety officer, consultants, manufac-turer/supplier or equipment/materiaPsubstance, HSE or local Environmental Health Officer. Use their expertise and knowledge. Do not be a statistic. 

This rule varies from state to state. Some materials are exempt from Nuclear Regulatory Commission or State licensing requirements. Most institutions already have an institutional license which would specify the safety officer. It would be well for the clinical chemistry laboratory to check with this individual before beginning to use radioactive materials. If there is no license, many manufacturers of isotope materials will assist the laboratory in obtaining the proper license. 

For whom is this book intended For those involved in industry, particularly nonchemical operations), who have, for a long while (since the application of the Labour Code) had much experience in safety matters, but for whom my experience as a trainer in the department of Hygiene, Safety and Environment of the lUT allows me to say how inadequately prepared they are when confronted with certain aspects of risk chemistry. Public organisations, curiously, had, until recently, no obligation to administer the Labour Code and that which concerned hygiene and workers safety. This book is concerned with all these activities but is not addressed to all safety officers because it presupposes a basic knowledge of chemistry. For all that, the chemist may not be at ease with this book, which he may find difficult. For this reason, numerous examples are provided to illustrate the methods studied, and assist in their application, and to permit him to identify the limits. 

Anon., Inst. Univ. Safety Officers Bull., 1987, (8), 9... 

This compilation has been prepared and revised to give access to a wide and up-to-date selection of documented information to research students, practising chemists, safety officers and others concerned with the safe handling and use of reactive chemicals. This will allow ready assessment of the likely potential for reaction hazards which may be associated with an existing or proposed chemical compound or reaction system. 

The relative rarity of dust and powder ignitions makes them a unique sort of industrial safety threat. Because their occurrence is not routine, operating personnel eventually relax their guard, and too often this sort of behavior leads to dangerous incidents. The evidence that dust explosions are almost unknown within fluidized beds is an especially challenging problem for the safety officer, who must encourage vigilance even when no one remembers the last electrostatic incident. 

Once filed, an NDA undergoes several layers of review (Figure 4.12). A primary review panel generally consists of a chemist, microbiologist, pharmacologist, biostatistician, medical officer and biopharmaceutics scientist. Most hold PhDs in their relevant discipline. The team is organized by a project manager or consumer safety officer (CSO). The CSO initially forwards relevant portions of the NDA to the primary review panel member with the appropriate expertise. 

The Minutes of the Rapid Action Fire Protection Seminar, AMC.AMCCOM Safety Office 23rd and 24th,October, 1984 121... 

A protocol for the light microscope radioautography of Lilium longiflorum pollen tubes labeled with [14C]-proline follows. This protocol, which does not require tissue embedding in paraffin or Paraplast, can be modified for paraffin-embedded tissues see Chapter 2). Thus, by employment of the protocol, together with the preceding introductory information in this chapter, one should be able to derive a protocol applicable to the cells or tissue in question. The performance of the protocol requires approval of an institution s Radiation Safety Officer. An inventory of incoming radionuclides, their presence in secondary containers, and their waste must be carefully recorded. The waste must be further broken down into solid waste, liquid waste, and animal carcasses to aid in its proper disposal. 

Strength GVW personnel provided specific directions to responders reporting to the command post (CP). Safety officer appointed at CP per established department policy. 

Strength Habitability surveys conducted at CP (command post) upon arrival of Haz-Mat team. EPA conducted surveys at CP upon their arrival. SRS (Savannah River Site) and Richmond County Haz-Mat resources arrived on scene within a timely manner and were designated by FDIC (Fire Department Incident Commander) to be responsible for Haz-Mat operations. Haz-Mat personnel assisted in CP location determination. EPA utilized Coast Guard Gulf Coast Strike Team to provide monitoring and on scene response. By comparing consist (a list of all the cars in the train which describes their position in the train, type, contents, destination, etc.) to entry team visual inspection, chemicals involved were accurately identified. Written response plan and safety procedures implemented for Haz-Mat operations. Briefings provided to Haz-Mat responders by Safety Officer on entry considerations maps were covered for responders unfamiliar with the area. 

Improvement Item Habitability surveys were not conducted initially at Command Post or Forward Operations. Safety Officer was not initially assigned for the incident, however one was appointed when Command Post (CP) relocated to Kmart parking lot. 

Incident Safety Officer The incident safety officer is a position mandated by Occupational Safety and Health laws. He/she is attached to the incident commander, and should be the person with the most knowledge about the various safety aspects at a hazardous materials scene. As provided under OSHA law, the incident safety officer has the power and authority to alter, suspend, or terminate the operation when, in his/her opinion, the conditions are unsafe. 

The second option considered was use of interception wells. One- or two-pump wells could be constructed at calculated spacings to create a hydraulic trough parallel to the canal to intercept the product. This design was considered more acceptable to the safety officer and the facility engineer, but was rejected by the maintenance foreperson because of the relative complexity of the operation system. The number of submersible pumps and sophisticated electronic controls would have required employment (or training) of technical specialists beyond the cost budgeted under normal operations. 

The big boost for reform came, in fact, with the Factory Acts in England. Three such acts were passed between 1833 and 1867, and they did much to improve working conditions and, in particular, initiated the training and use of Factory Inspectors to ensure that the provisions of the acts were implemented. These factory inspectors grew into the labor inspectors, safety officers, and occupational hygienists of today. 

Generally, though, when BZ was being tested, the technicians did their best to keep delirious subjects out of mischief and protect them from injury. Unfortunately, one afternoon, an unsteady volunteer lost his balance while under the influence of BZ and fell back against a hot radiator, sustaining a mild second-degree bum to his back. It was just the sort of accident that I (certainly not he) actually welcomed - not too serious, but enough to make the Safety Office nervous. 

All accidents and injuries should be reported to the lab safety officer in charge. 

Blind studies with chemical substances that have a characteristic odor or irritant effect are difficult to manage. If, as with ozone, the odor sense tends to diminish, then odor sham protocols are possible. However, keeping the subjects and the investigators (other than the safety officer) truly uninformed about the nature of a particular experiment is not a trivial problem. 

Your occupational health and safety officer at work can and should tell you whether chemicals you work with are dangerous and likely to be carried home on your clothes, body, or tools. Ask if you should shower and change clothes before you leave work, store your street clothes in a separate area of the workplace, or launder your work clothes at home separately from other clothes. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) for many chemicals used at your place of work. MSDS information should include chemical names and hazardous ingredients, and important information such as fire and explosion data, potential health effects, how you get the chemical(s) in your body, how to properly handle the materials, and... 

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