Training and Record Keeping

All employees using PPE should participate in a training program that must be provided at no cost to the employee and during working hours. 

At the time of initial assignment to a task where PPE is used. 

Retraining should be required when changes in the workplace or types of PPE to be used render previous training obsolete, or if inadequacies in an employee s knowledge or use of assigned PPE indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite understanding or skill. 

Material appropriate in content and vocabulary to education level, literacy, and language of employees should be used. 

The traming program should contain at a minimum the following elements. 

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Administration of the plant engineering organization and personnel as well as related financial considerations (budgeting, forecasting, cost control), training, and record keeping... 

The purpose of the noise section is to provide protection against the effects of noise exposure through noise monitoring, audiometric testing, determination of threshold shifts, hearing protection, employee training, and record keeping. Determination of the dBA should be computed in adherence to 1910.95 Appendix A—Noise Exposure Computation. 

Physical examinations, employee training and educational programs, medical protection, and record keeping, among others, are required. The regional OSHA office should be consulted for the latest rules and regulations. 

The scope of initial training always covers an induction period of perhaps four weeks, during which the trainee learns about the structure of the company which he has joined and the administration which he will be expected to carry out in the field. It is important that he learns about the legislation which applies to his job and the statutory forms which he must use. Surveyors are often required to keep a notebook, the purpose of which is similar to that of a police officer. He will later be required to cover the interests of all the clients who are his district , and he must therefore set up in his home the necessary administrative and record-keeping facilities to enable him to do this effectively and economically. 

The standard presents OSHA s determination that exposure to cotton dust presents a significant health hazard to employees and establishes permissible exposure limits for selected processes in the cotton industry and for non-textile industries where there is exposure to cotton dust. The cotton dust standard also provides for employee exposure monitoring, engineering controls and work practices, respirators, employee training, medical surveillance, signs and record keeping. 

Gallup, D., Beauchemin, K., Gillis, M., Altopiedi, D., and Manor, J. (2003), Selecting a Training Documentation/Record-Keeping System, PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, 57(1), January/February. 

The HCS requires information on hazardous chemicals to be transmitted to employees through labels, material safety data sheets (MSDS), and training programs. A written hazard communications program and record keeping are also required. 

Proper intervention planning and design, workmanship and quality control are essential since the non-reversibility of adhesion does not allow inspection and correction after cure. Compared to currently used mechanical timber joints, bonding requires more skilled and well-trained operators, and better organisation and record keeping for future traceability of possible problems and defective joints. 

Per Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation 29 CFR 1910.1450, Occupational Exposures to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories, is a written plan that includes specific work practices, standard operating procedures, equipment, engineering controls, and policies to ensure that employees are protected from hazardous exposure levels to all potentially hazardous chemicals in use in their work areas. The OSHA standard provides for training, employee access to information, medical consultations, examinations, hazard identification procedures, respirator use, and record-keeping practices. 

From the above, it may be seen that the application of quality systems to the management of health and safety at work has distinct benefits, especially when consideration is given to the tremendous overlap between the two subject areas. Overlap examples include policies systems and procedures standards documentation - records training (including record keeping) statistical analyses - causal, numerical accident/complaint investigations audits/inspections (internal and external) and the taking of remedial control action. 

The purpose of a fire prevention plan or a fire loss control program is the prevention of fires and minimization of fire loss. The following elements contained in the Responsibilities/ Procedures are considerations of what such programs might contain. These elements include Inspections, Education and Training, Fire Supression, Evaluation of Fire Possibility, Fire Prevention, Reports and Record Keeping, and... 

It should be possible to eliminate errors of this t)q)e by careful observation and record keeping, equipment maintenance and training of laboratory personnel. 

One tool that can help manage these obligations is an HSE matrix or calendar of regular requirements that can be used by facility personnel with compliance responsibility to schedule and complete the implementation activities. This matrix should include the required initial and refresher training (see next section) and record-keeping requirements. The matrix should also include a column of key actions to achieve and maintain compliance. For recurring activities, a date can be added to track when those obligations are due. 

Ensure the driver is provided with adequate instruction and training and keeps necessary records. 

In general, online versus off-line HIAR offers similar pros and cons as does the open versus the closed automated staining systems. Closed systems and online HIAR not only produce extreme consistency and require less technical knowledge, but it can also limit the number of antibodies that can be used successfully. Open systems and off-line HIAR allow the flexibility to use many more types of antibodies, but technicians need to be well trained and diligent in their record keeping in order to insure consistent staining. 

Any portion of the study that is a "field study" may also be audited. A field study auditor would inspect many of the same items already mentioned, but at the field site location. These include the training and experience of the field personnel, the calibration and maintenance of equipment, the field management and operations, the test substance application, and the sampling. Special problems are sometimes encountered in the field because the site is physically displaced from the main site of the study. Despite the physical displacement, the equipment must still be calibrated and maintained, the protocols and SOPs must be followed, there must be proper record-keeping, and there must be regular inspections by the QAU. 

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