Staffing levels

Project management also influences the likelihood that staffing levels wiU be adequate for the tasks required. This latter factor, together with the extent to which appropriate jobs are assigned to individuals, and the complexity of the jobs, all influence the level of time pressure likely to be felt by the operator. The detailed calculations, which show how the probability of human error is influenced by changes in the sociotechnical factors in the situation, are given in Appendix 5A. 

Similar assessments are performed to evaluate the probability that effective operating instructions are available (Table 6) that staffing levels are adequate (Table 9) and that time pressure will be high or low (Table 10). In this latter case, since three influences impact upon time pressure, eight joint assessments need to be made. 

If Project then weight of evidence that Staffing Levels are Weight (Project... 

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A qualified member of the management team should be responsible for managing the fire protection program and assuring that an adequate budget is provided for fire protection maintenance. The assignment of this responsibility may be dictated by the size of the facility and the staffing levels, for example ... 

As a result of the high staffing levels of such a unit. 

Negotiation is important because many factors (e.g., staffing levels, workloads, or stressful work conditions) can affect the fairness of an expectation. The more the employee is involved in setting or updating standards and agrees they are clear and reasonable, the greater the chances for successful performance. 

In-house staffing is based on long-term workload projections, which focus on the peaks rather than the valleys. The CRO is used as a back-up, when the workload exceeds projections, or when staffing levels fall due to a hiring freeze. The CRO is treated as an extension of in-house staff and may be asked to relocate its personnel to the sponsor s site. In order to minimize risk, the sponsor contracts the minimum range of services and retains the critical activities for its own staff. The decision to use a CRO is delayed until all other options are exhausted. CRO evaluation and selection occurs at the eleventh hour in a crisis atmosphere, where time is the major concern, rather than quality or cost. 

The fundamental components of the Standard are the statement of objectives of clinical pharmacy, the documentation of procedures for selected clinical activities, the guidance on staffing levels, and the defining of an intervention. The issues of boundaries of clinical practice, resources required, training, education, quality assurance, and documentation requirements are addressed. 

For example, prices for the services, minimum opening hours, staffing levels, presence of basic or specialized equipment, and so on. 

SAIC is in the process of prioritizing the data so that the highest-priority issues will require a response from the site. At present, a site does not have to respond, since there are too many issues in the database relative to staffing levels at the site. Additionally each ECP approved by any site is discussed at a biweekly ECP review teleconference. At a subsequent teleconference the sites inform the PLL team of what action will be taken regarding the ECP. These appear to be among the few issues that are handled in this more structured manner. The ECP review process consists of the following steps ... 

In order to increase the outreach of EEIS information, it will be necessary to put into place a dissemination network of Secondary Contact Points (SCPs) which will be the principal interface of INTIB/EEIS with the end-users. While there should be no barrier to end-users interacting directly with the PCP, staffing levels and the focus of the PCP mandate are likely to act as a constraint on the dissemination range of the EEIS. It is therefore thought that the number of potential users can be significantly increased by creating a network of secondary organizations. 

Radiation safety staffing levels may vary widely among facilities on the basis of facility size, radioactivity levels, and number of samples processed. Each facility is required to have an RSO that meets the education, training and experience requirements by the NRC or DOE. The DOE protocol is for government laboratories while NRC and Agreement State licenses control other radionuclide-using entities, including commercial and academic laboratories. 

Staffing levels and skills mix. The cost of staffing will very likely be the highest component of operating costs. The temptation might be to de-skill, or re-skill, tasks wherever possible. The use of experienced and appropriately qualified staff will be vital to the delivery of good quality DM care. 

Developing a hybrid solution may first appear to be the easiest and most practical way forward. Experience has shown, however, that this solution is usually intricate, and it is easy to get tied up in knots. For corporate computer systems, there may be hundreds of new manual procedures with all their implications on higher staffing levels and training. 

The actual efficiency should be computed and monitored each week. If there are definite upward or downward trends in efficiency, adjustments in staffing levels should be made. The work level at which a department is staffed is a critical parameter. One approach could be to perform a sensitivity analysis and compute the ETE requirement at various levels of case activity and then decide on the appropriate staffing level. 

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