Techniques program audits

The selection of an effective audit team members is critical to the success of the program. Audit individuals should have adequate experience, knowledge and training with auditing techniques, practices and procedures. 

The CMA has issued program-wide secondary waste recommendations on restrictions and requirements for each facility to follow in pursuit of potential permit modifications that would allow off-site shipments of contaminated waste. These restrictions are the same as the ANCDF-proposed restrictions and include guidelines on packing, monitoring, shipping, transport, disposal techniques, and stakeholder involvement, as outlined above.11 The operating contractor and CMA personnel should also continue to audit the TSDFs being used to receive secondary wastes, to ensure that they are compliant. 

In any sampling, we must define the unit of sampling, the sampling frame, and the sample choice technique. For a human factors audit the unit of sampling is not as self-evident as it appears. From a job-evaluation viewpoint (e.g., McCormick 1979), the natural unit is the job that is composed of a number of tasks. From a medical viewpoint the unit would be the individual. Human factors studies focus on the task/operator/machine/environment (TOME) system (Drury 1992) or equivalently the software/hardware/environment/Uveware (SHEL) system (ICAO 1989). Thus, from a strictly human factors viewpoint, the specific combination of TOME can become the sampling unit for an audit program. 

In order to monitor the success of a safety program, both a successful auditing program and quality safety metrics are needed because audits are another technique used in the evaluation and data collection process of the program. An audit or inspection is the monitoring function conducted in an industrial organization to locate and report existing and potential hazards, or man-environment systems or conditions, that have the capacity to cause accidents or illnesses in the workplace (Petersen 1998). 

Control of the raw material constituents is critical to the reproducibility and ultimate performance of thick-film products. Traceability of each of the components and the intermediates is imperative for the quality control function in order to comply with the high standards of lSO-9000 and continuous improvement programs. Routing equipment calibration programs, vendor audits, and utilization of statistical process control techniques are also necessary to... 

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