Safety share

The Basic Safety Standards [2] can be applied only by means of an effective infrastructure for radiation safety, which includes adequate legislation and regulations, an efficient regulatory system, supporting experts and services, and a commitment to safety shared by all those with responsibilities for protection and safety, including both management and workers. 

Safety Share Discussions. Safety-sharing discussions can provide an effective safety meeting agenda. After the meeting gets started, simply go around the room and have all participants relate something safety related they have done within the last 24 hours (or 48 hours or even the past week). 

This simple awareness booster—"What have you done for safety "—helps teach an important lesson. Employees learn that safety is not only loss control, an attempt to avoid failure, but can be discussed in the same terms of achievement as productivity, quality, and profits. As a measurement tool, it is possible to count and monitor the number of safety shares offered per meeting as an estimate of proactive safety success in the work culture. 

The choice of contract type will depend upon the type of work, and the level of control which the oil company wishes to maintain. There is a current trend for the oil company to consider the contractor as a partner in the project (partnering arrangements), and to work closely with the contractor at all stages of the project development. The objective of this closer involvement of the contractor is to provide a common incentive for the contractor and the oil company to improve quality, efficiency, safety, and most importantly to reduce cost. This type of contract usually contains a significant element of sharing risk and reward of the project. 

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has been formed, consisting of nuclear plant operators over the entire world who have pledged to assist each other in the achievement of safe operations (25). There are four centers from which this international program is adrninistered one in the United States in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by INPO one in Paris operated by Electricitir de Prance one in Moscow operated by the Ministry of Nuclear Power and one in Tokyo operated by the Central Research Institute for the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). Through this mechanism, teams of operators from the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia visit CIS plants to share safety experience and know-how, and similarly, plant personnel from Russian and Eastern European nuclear units visit European, Asian, and U.S. plants. 

One of the six elements of Responsible Care is the Codes of Management Practice, and one of the codes is the Process Safety Code of Management Practices (34). This code emphasi2es management commitment and accountabiUty, information sharing, and community relations, but also includes 11 of the 14 specific elements of the legislated process safety management standards developed later. 

Center for Chemical Process Safety. In 1985, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers estabHshed the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) (New York). The objective of the CCPS was to help prevent catastrophic chemical accidents by compiling information on the latest scientific and engineering practices, safety programs, and adininistrative procedures of the larger members of the chemical industry, so that they can be shared with other (and particularly the smaller) members of the chemical and petrochemical industries. 

Once a toller has been selected and any required preliminary confidentiality protection is in place, the client typically shares more detailed information. The toller can then make an informed decision about the economic, technical, and safety aspects involved in bidding the work. If the two parties decide the project will be mutually beneficial, agreements and obligations are negotiated and then formalized in a written contract. Both parties—the client and the toller—have roles in fulfilling the contract and in carrying out their responsibilities to the workers and the public. The purpose of the written contract is to clarify and document those roles and responsibilities to effectively execute, maintain and eventually terminate the project. 

It is essential that health, safety, and environmental data be shared between the parties. This can be mentioned in the contract or a sup-... 

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In addition, the DOE has issued a variety of publieations that pertain to hazardous waste. We will share some of the pertinent DOE and other information with you in a variety of plaees throughout this book. Mueh of the information that the DOE has published is useful when eonsid-ering work aetivities involving hazardous materials. Numerous other DOE orders that outline speeifie requirements on safety and health programs, industrial hygiene, eonstruetion safety, oeeupational medieine, and nuelear safety will also be eited as appropriate for eomparison. 

Site-specific health and safety requirements and site personnel, including contractors, are typically held responsible for managing and conducting all activities safely. Every worker should understand that he or she is responsible for sharing in the commitment to a safe workplace. In addition, employees should perform their work in accordance with any applicable laws, regulations, contract provisions, and established site-specific requirements. 

Contract documents should be reviewed. The HASP should reflect and possibly reference contractual agreements. Contract documents can contain much information pertinent to site safety. For example, many contracts contain monetary incentives for completion of site work accident free. If management wishes to share some of this monetary incentive with site workers, the HASP is an excellent vehicle for communicating safety incentive programs. 

Tlie DOE Office of Environmental Safety and Health distributes monthly summaries ba.scd on data retreived from the DOE Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) to share chemical safety concerns throughout the industry to alert operators of similar processes. In addition quarterly and annual reviews feature lessons learned from ORPS by trending analyses of ini an... 

Like VDA 6.1, AVSQ 94 does not include the requirements of ISO 9001. In this way issues of copyright are overcome, a practice shared by VDA and EAQF but not QS-9000. However, unlike VDA 6.1, AVSQ 94 follows the 20 elements of ISO 9001 with two additional elements, covering financial considerations and product safety. Those questions that go beyond ISO 9001 are marked and as every question is numbered it simplifies the evaluation process. A scoring method is employed to classify organizations in terms of a conformity index. Each question is awarded a point (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, or 10), where 10 points means full compliance, 7.5 points means minor inadequacies, 5 points means inadequacies in application requiring improvement, 2.5 points means serious inadequacies in application, and 0 points is used for criteria not applied. Unfortunately all questions carry the same weight as no account of the impact of omission on product quality or customer satisfaction is included. 

Those who want to spend more money to make a plant safer and those who think enough has been spent share a false premise they both assume more safety will cost more money. 

Many companies are quite wiiiing to share information on their PSM programs with other firms. CCPS and industry associations provide good places for networking to make the initial contacts that begin this. Attending process safety conferences is a good way to meet people who share your interest in PSM. 

This ranking exercise can be assigned to one or two team members as a subtask. Consider selecting a teammate with experience in facility operations to compile the necessary data and one with process safety and computer experience to run the models. The resulting report can then be shared with the full team and included in the plan you submit to your management. 

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