Track workers

Employee recordkeeping system. Tracks worker training, job location, and job assignments, as well as employee courses and qualifications. May be used in conjunction with TOXIC ALERT. 

On April 6, 1994, OSHA published its final revisions to the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standard in the Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 66. With the implementation date of July 5, 1994, the regulation, applicable to the general industry, represented major changes in the selection and use of PPE. OSHA believes that through compliance with the PPE standard, safety statistics that track worker safety will improve. These improvements will add up to 712,000 lost workdays and 95,000 recordable cases. 

If the Army decides to create a programwide electronic database for tracking worker monitoring, guidance provided in three National Standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials could be applicable ... 

Two track workers were killed by a passing train. 

Kerrabee is a remote location with few trains. Before commencing work the track workers needed to phone a control centre to obtain details of trains running at the time. They were told of three trains, but noted only two of them. The third train killed them. As with aviation, protocols required that verbal exchanges include read-back confirmations as a second layer of protection. The track worker mistakenly read back only two trains, but the control centre operator did not notice the read-back error. 

Each workers compensation claim is either directly or indirectly a drain on the profit margin of the company. This is the primary business reason to track workers compensation claims. Many employers who have a less than stellar experience modification rate (EMR) may have difficulty in procuring work, or bidding on work, when perspective buyers assess their safety and health performance. 

A recent design of the maximum bubble pressure instrument for measurement of dynamic surface tension allows resolution in the millisecond time frame [119, 120]. This was accomplished by increasing the system volume relative to that of the bubble and by using electric and acoustic sensors to track the bubble formation frequency. Miller and co-workers also assessed the hydrodynamic effects arising at short bubble formation times with experiments on very viscous liquids [121]. They proposed a correction procedure to improve reliability at short times. This technique is applicable to the study of surfactant and polymer adsorption from solution [101, 120]. 

In 1964, workers at the Joint Nuclear Research Institute at Dubna (U.S.S.R.) bombarded plutonium with accelerated 113 to 115 MeV neon ions. By measuring fission tracks in a special glass with a microscope, they detected an isotope that decays by spontaneous fission. They suggested that this isotope, which had a half-life of 0.3 +/- 0.1 s might be 260-104, produced by the following reaction 242Pu + 22Ne —> 104 +4n. 

The term control panel refers to the instrumentation console in a central control room through which process information is communicated to the process worker and via which the worker changes the state of the process. This category includes display elements such as chart recorders, bar indicators, dials, and modem VDU-based systems together with control elements such as buttons, switches, track balls and mice. The control panel is the human-machine interface (see Chapter 2) that has traditionally received the most attention from human factors specialists. 

The needle stick log will help both employees and employers track all needle sticks to help identify problem areas. The log must be maintained to protect the confidentiality of the injured employee. In addition, employers must have a written Exposure Control Plan that is updated annually. During the annual review, inquiries must be made about new or prospective safer options. If new safer devices are available, they should be adopted for use in the agency. The new guidelines will help reduce needle stick injuries among health care workers and others who handle medical sharps. Safety engineered devices such as self-sheathing needles and needleless systems can be used. 

One study has reported effects on neurobehavioral function in lead-exposed workers at mean PbB levels of 50 pg/dL (Williamson and Teo 1986). Neurobehavioral function was measured using tests that are based on information processing theory in 59 lead workers and 59 controls matched for age, type of job, time on the job, education level, smoking history, and alcohol consumption. Statistically significant decreases in the lead-exposed workers were seen for critical flicker fusion reaction, simple reaction time, tracking speeds, hand steadiness tests, and sensory store memory. Sensory store memory speed showed a low but statistically significant correlation with PbB concentrations. Measurements of neurobehavioral function seemed well chosen, and repeated measures with associated appropriate statistics were used. 

An early application of fuzzy logic was in the control of a cement kiln and applications to similar or identical systems have continued to appear (see, for example, Jarvensivu et al.1). This is an example of a practical application in which generation of high quality product may depend on the skill and experience of a small number of workers. Even when computer control is available, workers may describe the way that they adjust conditions to provide a high-quality product by statements such as, "The kiln rotation rate should be lowered slightly," and that, in order to compensate, "The temperature should be diminished just a bit." Fuzzy logic now has a lengthening track record of use in such situations. 

On February 6, 2005—a month after the Graniteville wreck—the three-man crew accused of failing to switch the railroad track back to the main line before disaster hit were fired by Norfolk Southern Railways. A railroad spokesman stated that the workers were terminated because they failed to perform their duties properly. Union officials said the three men will appeal, and each man had at least twenty-five years experience. The accident on January 6, 2005, killed nine people and injured hundreds more. 

Incident data collected by OSHA and EPA provide no functional capability to track the occurrence of reactive incidents with serious worker or public impacts 23 such data are a valuable resource for analyzing incident trends and developing prevention actions at a national level. 

The other type model attempts to track the plume using techniques inspired by observation of animal subjects. Some of the models actually emulate the search behaviors observed. A variation on this type model, perhaps more appropriately called an adaptation, is that of Ishida and co-workers [33],... 

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