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It follows that with any tool or equipment that is potentially dangerous or operators who may suffer injury from its use must be protected. To meet this requirement, training must be provided. 

The waste of soda by absorption into the beds of the ordinaiy furnaoes is avoided, and no tools being used iu the process of mixing, the surface of the brick lining is less subject to injury from working than the bottoms of reverberatory furnaces,... 

Kumar, A., Singh, J.K., Mohan, D., Varghrse, M. Farm hand tools injuries A case study from northern India Safety Science vol. 46 (54- 5) 2008. 

Chapter 14—Using the Tools Accident Prevention Techniques—The occupational safety and health community has provided many tools to assist us in preventing occupational injuries and illnesses. These tools range from audits to the use of consultants. In this chapter, these tools will be presented along with practical examples of how they can be put to use. Some forms will be provided that can... 

Tools — The right tool for the job will more likely be used in a 5S/6S system, because it will be available This can lead to a reduction in ergonomic and other injuries from using the wrong tool. This can also aid with Lockout/Tagout compliance as equipment will be available and orderly. 

TPM is perhaps the closest lean tool to workplace safety It is well recognized that worker injuries can occur from poorly maintained equipment. Whether it be point-of-operation injruies, flying debris, or repetitive injuries from excessive machine vibration or noise, poorly maintained equipment poses safety hazards. By focusing on identifying and preventing machine trouble spots, many injuries can be prevented. This process also involves heavy coordination with the company s lockout/tagout procedures, so safety professionals certainly need to be involved in several aspects of TPM. 

Hot Work. The objective of a hot work standard is to prevent fires, explosions, and other causes of injury which might result from workplace ignition sources such as welding (qv), cutting, grinding, and use of electrically powered tools. The OSHA standards have specific requirements (36,94) for fire prevention and protection and a permit system. 

Cause-consequence analysis serx es to characterize tlie physical effects resulting from a specific incident and the impact of these physical effects on people, the environment, and property. Some consequence models or equations used to estimate tlie potential for damage or injury are as follows Source Models, Dispersion Models, Fire Explosion Models, and Effect Models. Likelihood estimation (frequency estimation), cliaractcrizcs the probability of occurrence for each potential incident considered in tlie analysis. The major tools used for likelihood estimation are as follows Historical Data, Failure sequence modeling techniques, and Expert Judgment. 

An important class of noncompetitive antagonists selective for AMPA receptors is represented by the 2,3-benzodiazepines such as GYKI 53655. These compounds act at sites different from those acted on by cyclothiazide and are useful tools for isolating synaptic responses mediated by kainate receptors. These compounds also show some promise as neuroprotective drugs for treating ischemic neuronal injury. 

Policy makers, practitioners, and scholars from a variety of disciplines have recently embraced a new approach to risk reduction in health care—a "systems approach"—without proposing any specific reforms of medical liability law. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) placed its imprimatur on this approach in its recent reports (Kohn et al., 2000 IOM, 2001). In its simplest form, a systems approach to risk reduction in health care posits that an injury to a patient is often the manifestation of a latent error in the system of providing care. In other words, a medical mishap is the proverbial "accident waiting to happen" because the injury-preventing tools currently deployed, including medical liability law, are aimed at finding the individuals at fault rather than the systemic causes of error. Coexistence of a systems approach to error reduction and medical liability law as a conceptual framework for policy makers implies that the latter is likely to evolve in an incremental fashion as the former makes more visible different aspects of the medical error problem. 

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