Team relations

Number of causal factors identified by incident investigation teams related to failures to properly apply or follow a safe work permit X ... 

S. Patel and M. Latterich, The AAA team related ATPases with diverse functions, Trends Cell. Biol., 1998, 8, 65-71. 

A safety team bulletin board located in a prominent location add metric and other safety team related materials... 

In March 2006 a research team related to Safety First Industrial Safety Services analyzed 31 recommendations pertaining to evacuation, escape and rescue (EER) after the Ocean Ranger accident (Leafloor 2006). The scope of work focused primarily on a literature search for historical and current information regarding the implementation of research and development, regulatory change, policy/practice amendment and technological innovation in response to selected recommendations within the two reports published by the Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster (RCOMD) (Hickman 1984). 

Team related factors was the smallest group, with only nine PSFs appearing across all five tools and SPAR-H did not contain any team factors. Quality of communications was the most common team factor, featuring in three of the tools. There was no agreement between the tools across the remaining six factors classified as team related. These covered actions by others, team structure, group identifications (THERP), crew collaboration (HEART), and supervision (ATHEANA). 

The team dimensions include two aspects of treatment team functioning—how effectively the team gets work done (teamwork) and how well the team members get along (treatment team relations). Perceptions of these aspects are highly related but distinguishable. For instance, a team could be unproductive or ineffective but have members who get along well with each other. Alternatively, team members may not play nice with one another but may prove to be highly effective. 

Team functioning also affects perceptions of the value the organization places on patient safety, the climate around raising patient safety issues, and the likelihood of team members talking to one another about safety-related behavior. These perceptions, in turn, affect safety outcomes, so teamwork and treatment team relations have both direct and indirect effects on patient safety outcomes (level of safe behavior, injuries, and preventable adverse event reporting). 

Treatment team relations are also affected by the leadership of the group. Supportive and trustworthy behavior by leaders tends to encourage trust among members of the team. 

WGR (Workgroup Relations) in non-medical fields is the equivalent of TTR (Treatment Team Relations) in healthcare. 

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The technical review team should compare the thoroughness of each scope of work related response between the candidate toller proposals. 

The technical review team should compare the overall response related to process safety, environmental, health, and quality capability-related items to the data gathered through questionnaires or visits. Does their practice match their policy ... 

Process Overview The process overview includes topics related to the equipment configuration, chemical and physical changes achieved in the specific toll, and special safe work practices related to the operations, maintenance and materials. Emphasis should be given to any new equipment and chemical hazards the startup team will encounter. 

More focus is being put on safety. OSHA and EPA will soon team up to investigate major chemical accidents or releases. The AIChE has established a safety center and it seems like a higher percentage of AIChE publications relate to safety. I can envision more chemical engineers being involved part or full time in safety. 

Security issues involving access controls are typically line management responsibilities. However, it is not unheard of to have the SSHO in charge of site access or other security-related matters. However, if the field team leader or site supervisors are in charge of access issues or other security matters, they should always strive for SSHO participation. The nature of a project may warrant assigning a member of the site security staff to the project team. Key duties of the security officer may include the following ... 

The OSHA audit teams found program defieieneies in two related areas the development of task- and operation-speeifie hazard analyses and the eonduet of monitoring programs designed to eharaeterize employee exposures to hazardous materials. These defieieneies are dis-eussed in more detail below. 

Complex or particularly significant problems regarding a system may not be resolved immediately, and require further action. In such a case, a team member, whose expertise is most closely related to the subject, is assigned the task of obtaining the information and reporting back to the HAZOP team for close-out. 

As with previous, similar exercises, encourage your team to be creative. Like any sound management system, your PSM system probably creates unexpected side benefits over and above those related spedfically to safety performance. For example, the pilot test may have demonstrated that a new system, once installed, enabled the facility to reduce unplanned downtime with better planning and use of preventive maintenance. Or perhaps the pilot test process itself may have helped improve relations between the facility and corporate staff. 

The various PIFs discussed so far provide a basis for the control of human error at the level of the individual. This section will consider various factors related to the performance of the team and the management practices related to safety. 

Less Less Flow Excess ammonia in reactor. Release to work area, with amount released related to quantitative reduction in supply. Team member to calculate toxicity vs. flow reduction. 1. Valve A partially closed. 2. Partial plug or leak in pipe. Automatic closure of valve B on reduced flow from phosphoric acid supply. Set point determined by toxicity vs. flow calculation. 

On the part of the contractor team, two root causes were identified, root cause 1 being insufficient training of the contractor team leader. He was uncertain of permit systems, specifically whether they should report in at the end of shift, and, if so, who should do it. The second root cause relates to the procedure used at the end of the shift for supervisors to sign back permits. Although according to procedure all workers should hand back permits to supervisors in person, in practice this did not occur. If no one is present, or they are busy, it had become common practice to either leave the permits on the supervisor s desk, or to sign them back in the morning. 

For example, treatment of dione 12 with hydrochloric acid yielded furan 13, a key synthetic intermediate for the production of a variety of compounds that were recently investigated for anticancer activity. Related inquiries by members of the same research team identified furans derived from IS as potential treatments for RNA viruses. Furan IS was prepared by condensation of dione 14 with catalytic sulfuric acid in refluxing acetic anhydride. ... 

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