Safety performance requirements

Designing for successful occupational health and safety performance requires a systematic approach. This includes understanding that the workplace is a system where changes in one element lead to influences on the other system components. It also means that efforts to make improvements must... 

The integration of safety-related appHcation software into SRECS shall include tests that are specified during the design and development phase to ensure the compatibility of the appHcation software with hardware and embedded software platform such that the functional and safety performance requirements are satisfied. 

Behavioral safety is a magic bullet. There is no magic bullet. Improving safety performance requires a thorough understanding of related areas of psychology, leadership, and culture. Addition-... 

There is a need to specify the functional safety performance requirements for each safety function and this is the objective of the E/E/PE system safety requirements... 

The gathering of information and training materials is the linchpin that holds the safety management system together. Establishing a structured method to gather and maintain information and data specific to your operational environment increases your ability to influence and design safety performance requirements and/or job practices. 

The assessment of the impact of system changes on its safety performance required the use of ISP QRA... 

In the second category, specific system safety performance requirements were elicited through the review of mitigations/protection measures in the hazard log. Those mitigations/protection measures that are related to novel equipment, or new processes, or any novel environment states within which the conventional equipment or a process is to operate, were converted into safety requirements. Those safety requirements that are related to novel equipment were further analysed in order to facilitate the representation of these in the QRA, either as base events or logical gates. 

Undertaking a culture change to improve safety performance requires the systemic engagement of the entire workforce from leadership to wage roll. Senior... 

Color Properties Required. Colorants must be chosen to permit formulation of a coating that can meet performance requirements such as exterior durability and resistance to solvents, chemicals, and heat. Health and safety regulations may also affect colorant choice. 

Performance. Consumer acceptance is a criterion on which cosmetic marketers caimot compromise. Whereas the likes and dislikes of consumers are in a state of constant flux, some product features are critical. A deodorant that does not deodorize or a hair coloring that fades in sunlight is unacceptable. Performance is tested by in vitro techniques during formulation, but the ultimate test of a product s performance requires in-use experience with consumers and critical assessment by trained observers. Performance tests can sometimes be combined with in-use safety tests, and protocols for such programs have been developed. 

These applications have considerably more stringent performance requirements than any other application. Circulating water pumps, boiler feed pumps, forced-draught (FD) and induced-draught (ID) fans, pulverizers (ball mills) and condensate pumps are components in a thermal power station that may require extra safety in a standard motor to make it able to fulfil these requirements and withstand abnormal service conditions and system disturbances. Abnormal operating conditions may be one or more of the following ... 

In setting priorities for action, you must aiso consider avaiiabie resources. You may identify an action step that produces the single largest improvement in process safety, and discover that it requires all of your available resources. Alternatively, you may be able to spread your efforts among a number of lower priority actions that together have a greater impact on overall safety performance. 

Where an effective informal system exists and is followed, the issue is one of style, not substance. A facility or unit may have a strong safety culture and sound safety practices, but its managers lack the habit of form documentation, or simply don t think it is important. Assuming that safety performance meets applicable standards, you will probably assign cases like these a relatively low priority, compared with other noncompliance situations. Cases like these are also often the easiest to fix since the fundamentals are already in place, what s required is simply to formalize the informal system by preparing and implementing documentation procedures. 

The shortest distance between A and B is not always a straight line. Keep in mind as you consider intangible factors that you must influence behavior in order to improve companywide safety performance. Achieving this may require a combination of skills and tactics, some of which may not be directly related to explicit PSM requirements. 

A hot alignment check is performed exactly like an ambient alignment check with the added safety precautions required for hot machinery. The accuracy of a hot alignment check depends on how soon after shutdown dial indicator readings can be taken. Readings may be taken within a few minutes with the use of shaft-mounted brackets that span a flexible coupling. To speed up the process, assemble the brackets to the fullest extent possible prior to shutdown so that they need only be bolted to the shafts once the machine stops rotating. 

However, like with metals, there are many stresses that cannot be accurately analyzed. Hence one is forced to rely on properties that correlate with performance requirements. Where the product has critical performance requirements, such as ensuring safety to people, production prototypes will have to be exposed to the requirements it is to meet in service. 

Properties Fire safety continues to be a major performance requirement. Creep and heat distortion are other important properties to be considered. A major deterrent for the architect and builder is lack of common knowledge about plastics physical properties. 

Cure systems play an important role in achieving the performance requirements of mbber articles. Furthermore, these performance requirements are becoming more and more demanding due to ever-increasing severity conditions, health and safety concerns, and quality expectations. 

Pt 2 - Specification for safety and performance requirements for Group I instruments reading up to 5% methane in air. 

Environmentally safe destruction of obsolete chemical weapons must be performed In facilities which assure total containment of blast effects and toxic gas In the event of an accidental detonation. Functional process requirements and recommended structural design procedures for containment rooms to accomplish this purpose are presented. The requirements presented are consistent with Department of the Army and Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board requirements. 

Despite numerous safety measures, accidents with hazardous substances still occur even though Safety Indicators (Sis) have been developed as pre-warning signs to focus companies resources on risk areas. Moreover, Sis required by authorities enabled them to assess the safety performance of companies and focus their resources on companies which have problems controlling their risks, Modarres (Modarres et al., 1994). 

The precursor was identified in the maintenance sub-process. In practice, the operators from technical support observed the presence of substances inside the packaging machines. Subsequently, they consulted the chief operator on how to remove the substances from the machines and perform the most suitable intervention. These actions correspond with the control elements on the operational control level. The actions were performed in order to resume production quickly, and adhere to planned schedules. Additionally, experience and training provided the operators with guidelines on how to perform the maintenance effectively. In practice the production manager, responsible for any preventive solutions was not aware of the existence of this precursor and consequently had no overview of these deviations even though the company s quality and safety standards required an overview of all deviations and... 

I. Achieving a required safety level can be a matter of selecting the appropriate safety performance indicator. 

Failure occurs when the component ceases to perform its required function. In the case of catastrophic failure, such as the rupture of a pipe or electrical breakdown of an insulator, this is obvious, but in many cases there is no such clear end of life. For example, is the end point when a small amount of environmental stress cracking has occurred, or when cracks have reached 5 mm in length Broadly, the definition of end point is that a property has reached a level at which safety, performance or market acceptance dictate that the component or product can no longer be used. 

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