Unit-specific training

At Site I, hazards associated with the thermal oxidation unit had not been discussed in site-specific training. In addition, the Site I subcontractor s SSAHP lacked a description of the types of potential emergencies associated with site operations. 

It may be advisable to inspect containers midway through the incubation period. The filled units should be briefly inverted and swirled after filling to assure closure contact with the medium. Personnel who have had specific training in the visual inspection of media-filled units should perform these incubator checks. 

The management incorrectly assumed that the methomyl board operators had become proficient from many operating hours using the DCS on the larvin unit. It was not recognized that even minor differences in operation challenge an unfamiliar operator unless the operator has had process-specific training for new equipment. 

All patients in general intensive care units (both adult and pediatric) should be managed by physicians having specific training and certification in critical care medicine ("critical care-certified"). 

Specific measures at each location, such as protective equipment, location, and use of alarm systems, determination of when to use the buddy system as needed for safety, must be part of the specific training. Training unit coworkers from the same unit and shift may facilitate team work in the work setting. 

In practice, it was found that the number of RTC trainees who actually reached the types of units for which they had been specifically trained was small. This was especially true as increasing numbers of RTC graduates began to move directly overseas. It was the uncertainties of the replacement depot system that forced a change from specialized to more general technical training. 

To ensure that professionalism is maintained or enhanced, it is important that maintenance organizations have clear responsibility and accountability for work done and that they ensure that their expectations are clearly communicated. Additionally, an awareness of safety aspects and the consequences of improper actions need to be taken into account, specifically, the safety implications of confusing the nuclear power plant unit or train. 

Problem Definition InteUigent selection of a separator requires a careful and complete statement of the nature of the separation problem. Focusing narrowly on the specific problem, however, is not sufficient, especi ly if the separation is to be one of the steps in a new process. Instead, the problem must be defined as broadly as possible, beginning with the chemical reactor or other source of material to be separated and ending with the separated materials in their desired final form. In this way the influence of preceding and subsequent process steps on the separation step will be iUuminated. Sometimes, of course, the new separator is proposed to replace an existing unit the new separator must then fit into the current process and accept feed materials of more or less fixed characteristics. At other times the separator is only one item in a train of new equipment, all parts of which must work in harmony if the separator is to be effective. 

Remember as you set priorities that you and your team must consider the expected benefit to the company, division, or unit as a whole, rather than simply addressing a single gap. Obviously, any specific immediate risk you identify in the course of your assessment must be dealt with quickly and responsibly however, be careful not to let anomalous findings skew your perspective on broader priorities. For example, the absence of a capital project review process is a significant gap. However, if there is only one project per year this gap may have lower priority than an existing but seriously deficient operator training program. 

On many occasions, new equipment is installed or process workers have to work in other similar plant units in order to substitute for one of their colleagues. Despite the overall similarity of the new equipment, there might be some differences in their operation which may sometimes become very critical. We caimot always rely on the operator to discover these potentially critical differences in equipment design, especially under time pressure and excessive workload. If multiskill training in a range of plant equipment is not feasible, then training should be provided for the specific new equipment. The incident below was due to lack of training for a caimed pump. 

The computational paradigm in an ANN is based on an idealized model of a biological unit called a neuron. The unique characteristics of this ANN model are the inputs of signal from stimulus in a training environment. It is important to note that each neuron works independently of the other neurons. The specific characteristics of ANN models that attract industrial application are ... 

With use of electric and diesel-electric locomotives also came the ability to control power and tractive effort, not just for the unit in which a crew rides, but for multiple units (MU) coupled together in a locomotive consist—and this without need of additional crews in the following units. (A consist is the make-up of the train, in this case the full set of locomotives used.) With MU operation, locomotive managers had flexibility to size horsepower of the consist to operating requirements of a particular train and its territory or specific assignment. 

Broadband analysis techniques have been used for monitoring the overall mechanical condition of machinery for more than twenty years. The technique is based on the overall vibration or energy from a frequency range of zero to the user-selected maximum frequency, Fmax Broadband data are overall vibration measurements expressed in units such as velocity (PK), acceleration (RMS), etc. This type of data, however, does not provide any indication of the specific frequency components that make up the machine s vibration signature. As a result, specific machine-train problems cannot be isolated and identified. 

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