Supplemental Safety Programs

Note llie author is indebted to Scott Geller (1989) for many of the ideas presented in this chapter. Scott is one of the true gurus of the behavioral safety field. 

208 Values-Based Safety Process Improving Your Safety Culture With Behavior-Based Safety. 

Second Edition Terry E. McSween Copyright 2003 John Wiley Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-22049-3 

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The HASP, on the other hand, foeuses on the site-speeifie aetivities and outlines the appropriate elements of the site s existing health and safety program to the related task. The existing programs are reviewed to identify those elements meeting the needs of the planned site aetivity. Program elements and proeedures are supplemented with worksite-speeifie detail and tailored to meet speeial or unique aspeets of the hazardous waste aetivity on an as-needed basis [1]. 

Wlien a worksite includes both radiological and nonradiological hazards, the HASP should address both hazards. A site-specific HASP can supplement health and safety programs by providing site-specific and pertinent information, requirements, and strategies for each task. 

EPA ARIP Responses to questionnaires sent by EPA from facilities that have had significant releases purpose is to learn about causes and consequences of hazardous material incidents 1986-Present Supplements NRC reports for more significant events Additional information on causal factors, consequences, and company safety programs Data are easily analyzed for common causes Includes all states and localities Survey relies on voluntary compliance Not comprehensive limited to select cases Checklist approach limits value of information to understand root cause Not designed to be a lessons-leamed database... 

Supplement Verification Program, Health Care Information, and Patient Safety. 

The HCF hazardous-materials safety program is implemented by the SNL ES H Manual, MN471001 (SNL 1998) and supplements to the manual. This manual incorporates all applicable DOE Orders and Directives as weii as OSHA and other applicable standards. Including 29 CFR 1910, DOE 5480.4 (DOE 1984), and DOE 5484.10 (DOE 1981). 

Frush, K. S., Fundamentals of a Patient Safety Program, Pediatric Radiology, Vol. 38, Supplement 4, 2008, pp. S685-S689. 

Complete and accurate written documentation of chemicals properties, process teclinology, and process equipment is essential to the PSM program and to a process hazards analysis (PrHA). This information serves many users including the PrHA team. The needed chemical information includes fire and explosion characteristics, reactivity hazards, safety and health hazards and the corrosion and erosion effects. Current material safety data sheet (MSDS ) information helps meet this requirement, but must be supplemented with process chemistry information regarding runaway reactions, and over-pressure hazards. 

By the year 2010, FDA will have a science-based regulatory program that fully implements the DSHEA. The plan addresses safety, labeling, clarification of the differences between drugs and dietary supplements, and enforcement activities. 

Schalch, W. and F. M. Barker (2005). Ocular and general safety of supplementation with zeaxanthin and lutein plasma exposure levels of carotenoids and 3 -dehydro-lutein—Results of the LUXEA study. ARVO 2005 Abstract Book on CDROM Program 1765. 

For many, familiarity with the TSCA generally stems from its specific reference to polychlorinated biphenyls, which raise a vivid, deadly characterization of the harm caused by them. But the TSCA is not a statute that deals with a single chemical or chemical mixture or product. In fact, under the TSCA, the EPA is authorized to institute testing programs for various chemical substances that may enter the enviromnent. Under the TSCA s broad authorization, data on the production and use of various chemical substances and mixtures may be obtained to protect public health and the environment from the effects of harmful chemicals. In actuality, the TSCA supplements the appropriate sections dealing with toxic substances in other federal stamtes, such as the Clean Water Act (Section 307) and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (Section 6). 

Finding a new indication is an obvious opportunity to increase market size by enlarging the potential pool of patients that can benefit from the product. In this case, two pivotal, well-controlled phase IV studies demonstrating efficacy will usually be required, at a minimum. If there is the potential for a new type of clinical hazard to be associated with new disease being studied, then a safety database, of a size that regulators will find acceptable, will be needed for the supplemental application, too. Clearly, whenever such a project is contemplated, then a financial assessment is needed of the balance between the cost of the program, the probability of success and the size of the eventual revenue increment that may or may not justify it. 

The information assembled in the original 1978 printing of the Pocket Guide was the result of the Standards Completion Program, a joint effort by NIOSH and the Department of Labor to develop supplemental requirements for the approximately 380 workplace environmental exposure standards adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1971. 

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