Transfer Task Safety

Communicate the plan of action to the patient and other workers to ensure that the transfer takes place using smooth and unexpected moves. Remove any obstacles and focus on maintaining sure footing. Patients should wear slippers that provide good traction. Maintain eye contact, communicate with the patient, and stay alert for trouble signs. Record any problems on the patient s chart so that other shifts will know how to cope with difficult transfers. Also note the need for any special equipment. Implement measures to reduce or prevent back injuries such as 

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It is important to make a list of every task that will be performed in the laboratory, down to the smallest detail. Operations such as pH measurements, transfer of flammables from safety storage to shelf bottles, or recording observations must not be overlooked. Even in a small laboratory, the number of individual tasks will be quite substantial. 

The aim of this introduction is to fill the gap between experimentally obtained results and plant technical requirements from a safety engineering point of view. This transfer of experimental data to true plant conditions and the compatibility assessmoit of plant and process remain the main tasks of chemical safety engineering. 

A permit system requires a special document (permit), which acts like a checklist, to be filled out. Usually, the work involves some type of hazard. Personnel involved in the hazardous work must fill out a permit and the permit must be inspected and verified as complete before work can begin. The function of the permit system is to force personnel involved in a hazardous task to take the time to review all the steps, the personal protection equipment (PPE) required, the type of hazard(s) expected, and equipment required to perform the task safely. The permit system also temporarily transfers custody of a piece of equipment. As an example, a unit has a failed pump that must be repaired. This will require the pump to be removed from the process unit and taken to maintenance repair shop for repairs. The permit system places responsibilities on the issuer of the permit (operators) and the recipient of the permit (maintenance personnel). In essence, a permit system is an extra step in the direction of safety and accident prevention. Some of the more common permits are ... 

Additionally, under Title I, Section 102(c)(2), safety professionals should be aware that conducting preemployment physical examinations of applicants and asking prospective employees if they are qualified individuals with disabilities is prohibited. Employers are further prohibited from inquiring as to the nature or severity of the disability, even if the disability is visible or obvious. Safety and loss prevention professionals should be aware that individuals may ask whether any candidates for transfer or promotion who have a known disability can perform the required tasks of the new position if the tasks are job related and consistent with business necessity. An employer is also permitted to inquire about the applicant s ability to perform the essential job functions prior to employment. The employer should use the written job description as evidence of the essential functions of the position. ... 

From the societal viewpoint the critical infrastructure there are mutually interconnected networks and systems that include the identified sectors and institutions (including humans and procedures) that provide the reliable flow of products and services substantive for defence and economic safety, that is understood as the state capability to compete on global markets while there are on acceptable level the real public incomes and the public administration functions on each society levels (Moteff et al. 2003). It means that the critical infrastructure is a set of partial infrastructures from different sectors of a human system (see e.g. act No. 183/2006 Col.), that are composed of physical elements and of processes that used these elements for fulfilment of the tasks of each partial infrastructure. A functionality of this set of partial infrastructures predetermines the human system safety (Prochazkova 2007a). It is caused by a fact that to economic safety there are joined the other ones (Moteff et al. 2003), the physical safety that is connected with risks caused from disasters of all kinds and the cyber safety that is connected with the disasters affecting the computer networks. Individual items o f each infrastructure according to this work are subdivided to elements and typical processes as there are the distribution, storage, payments, recycling, data transfer, transport etc. 

In Chapter 1 we briefly considered the critical phenomena in branching chain reactions consisting in the qualitative transfer from the slow mode of reaction to the intensive (self-accelerated) one at negligible changes in the parameters of a reaction system. Investigations of critical phenomena are still urgent. Increased interest in this problem is closely associated with the practical tasks of combustion, fire and explosion safety, inhibition of oxidation processes, etc. [1-3, 26-50],... 

A key issue is to make sure that on-the-job training is sufficiently well structured, and that the training and assessment is by competent people. In practice this relies heavily on the quality of the procedures for safety-critical tasks. A key piece of evidence for this would be a well-structured plan for training and assessment. ( Guidance on procedures for control and monitoring of fuel transfer is included in this appendix). 

Safety-critical tasks, such as commencement of fuel transfer, tank changeover, and end of transfer, should generally be scheduled to avoid shift handover times. 

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