Safety representatives

If a PSSR is extensive, the PSSR team should include a toller company engineer and an engineer from the client. In addition, an operations supervisory representative and operations personnel with appropriate knowledge and skills along with a maintenance and safety representative may also be included on the team. The PSSR leader must ensure enough manpower and expertise is available on the team to review the new facilities and major modifications thoroughly. 

A guide to the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989 - guidance on Regulations... 

It is hoped that this book will prove valuable to safety advisers, environmental health offieers, emergeney serviees personnel, safety representatives and those engaged in the transport or disposal of wastes - in faet, to anyone involved with ehemieals in the field , i.e. away from ready aeeess... 

A general description of the three major classes of MDI s and brief descriptions of adhesive applications are shown in Table 1. More recently, MDl has become the isocyanate of choice in adhesives, partly because MDI has a lower vapor pressure than TDI does (see pp. 296-297 in [18]). Isocyanates have been shown to cause an allergic reaction in a small percentage of the population. This reaction can manifest itself in the form of an asthmatic condition [19]. Before starting work with isocyanates, researchers are encouraged to read about the proper precautions to take, in order to work safely with these materials. Researchers should also check with their local health and environmental safety representatives [20]. 

You should consult your employees (through safety representatives, if you have any) about the policy statement. Everyone should be able to see from the policy statement exactly who is responsible for different things, such as advice, reporting an accident, and first aid. 

You will need to involve a number of different people, including your safety representatives and employees, to do the risk assessments. 

This will keep the topic of near misses high on everyone s mind and will continually improve the understanding of what a near miss is. This system works best when a dedicated scribe is in the meeting. Consider including trade union safety representatives. 

Other participants can be involved in a full time or in a limited consulting role depending on the nature of the incident, ft is important to include people who know what actually happens in the field—not just what is supposed to happen. The team selection should be able to withstand third party scrutiny such as that of employees, departments, union representatives, community groups, and legal. Some companies include trade union safety representatives in the incident investigation. Positions to consider include ... 

There must be an approval mechanism to reduce unnecessary inspection and testing if repeated testing shows ideal performance. Many test frequencies are initially self-imposed to be annual, which could be too frequent. Those type of changes should have an approval trail which includes the unit manager, or second-level supervisor, the critical instrument testing supervisor and a process safety representative. 

If a required team member is not available, the project manager shall determine with the concurrence of the project safety representative, if the review can be adequately accomplished without the designated member. In such cases, a substitute individual from the supplemental member list below, should usually be provided in his place. A review should not be undertaken if an operations representative or his delegate is unavailable. 

A Risk Engineer or the Safety Representative should have a minimum of five years experience (engineering, operations, inspections, etc.) in loss prevention practices in the petroleum, chemical or related industries. 

One interviewee described that employer opposition to the Worker Safety Advisor scheme has halted its development across all industry sectors in the UK [395, 396]. French interviewees described several safety representative state-sponsored schemes in France, but the resources appear far more restricted than in Sweden. There was no evidence from the interviews or literature review to indicate that Germany has such a scheme. Evidence from the interviews indicates that such schemes in France and Sweden link to their strong social health care system, with very high union membership distinguishing Sweden from France. 

Regional Safety Representatives visit many micro-enterprises (fewer than 10 employees) [391]. This activity is made possible by high state provisions heavily supplemented by trade union contributions [392]. 

Safety Representatives, The Swedish Trade Union Confederation Regional LO, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001. 

Should an Environmental, Health, and Safety representative review each procedure ... 

Nevertheless as the research reported in the next section shows, trade union health and safety representatives surveyed in the study commissioned by the HSE (Research International 1997) were considerably better informed about OELs than were enqjloyers. The explanation the researchers offered for this finding was that the safety representatives in their survey were mostly drawn from larger enterprises. A further factor would have been the extent of health and safety training received by the representatives - which is considerably greater than that received by the average small enterprise owner manager and which deals specifically with representing workers that use hazardous substances. 

An extension of a maximum of 10 days may be given if the time allowed in the first place is judged as insufficient. There is no appeal against the terms of the notice. Health and safety representatives should be given a copy of Improvement Notices. 

According to the Decree in all enterprises whatever their size a safety representative (RLS) most be elected or naminated. In enterprises employing 15 or less workers the safety iqireseiitative is elected directly from eiiq)lo)%es. To help these small enterprises copii with the obli tion of having a safety representative, the Decree opens the possibility of having territorial safety... 

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