Unsafe practices

Potentially unsafe practices likely to be implemented in carrying out the work ... 

Older laboratory workers could no doubt add many examples of their own to the list of unsafe practices. Modern laboratory planners and operators, however, are more aware of safety problems, and rules regarding safety have been made much more strict. It is up to the laboratory operator to become throughly familiar with such rules in order to organize and operate a safe laboratory. 

The elimination of unsafe practices and inferior or counterfeit products, with strong action against deliberate offenders. 

Butterfield, Fox. Study Finds Unsafe Practices by People Trained in Firearms. The New York Times, January 20, 1995, p. A12. Reports that although many people on both sides of the gun debate advocate firearms safety training, a study by the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who had taken safety courses are actually more likely to keep a gun loaded and unlocked at home. 

We have talked about safer sex —but what exactly does this mean Basically, any sexual contact that involves the exchange of body fluids is unsafe (the semen, vaginal secretion, blood, and urine of infected people all contain the virus). Unsafe practices become even more unsafe when used repeatedly or together, and the risk increases with the number of different partners ... 

The unsafe nature of these practices needs to be emphasized. Precautions should always be taken to minimize exposure to all laboratory compounds. Hands should be washed whenever a compound is spilled on them. Elating, drinking, and smoking in the laboratory are all extremely unsafe practices and should be forbidden. Even licking a finger to pick up a piece of paper should be avoided. 

At this stage it is also decided whether a patent application should be filed on the reaction or compound. It is the duty of the patent department to decide whether patent protection can probably be obtained, or whether it appears best to keep the observation secret until the whole field has been investigated so that there will be no possibility of avoiding the patent when it is granted. Only in rare cases is it decided to attempt keeping a discovery secret. This is an unsafe practice, and therefore is resorted to only in necessary cases. 

As we shall see later in the book, chemical disasters have occurred as a result of unsafe practices or of misuse. This brings me back to an earlier point chemicals must be used with respect. 

The agro-eeosystem is vulnerable to attaeks by terrorists which can narrow the margins between safe and unsafe practices. For example, the tacties used by terrorists ean have huge impacts on foodstuffs and feedstuffs and ean be as simple as, for example, disrupting the distribution of electrieal and fossil fuel energy. For example. 

Commonly reported near misses include such events as exceeding operating limits, a release of a chemical or other hazardous substance that does not meet the threshold for a process safety incident metric, activation of relief valves, interlocks, or ruptured disks. Companies may establish near-miss metrics based on the specifics of their operation, based on their observations of frequent upsets or failures, or to track and correct observed unsafe practices or behaviors. 

To maintain safety-conscious personnel, safety must be a priority with the well service company s management as well as with the oil company s personnel. Neither the service company nor the oil company should ignore unsafe practices. 

In the United Kingdom, inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have the power to close down any operation which they deem unsafe and to fine and imprison companies and individuals who carry out, authorise the operation of or allow unsafe practices to be carried out. Corresponding government bodies have similar powers in almost all other countries in the world. Thus, the law provides strong motivation for ensuring the safety of chemical processes, in addition to the ethical and financial (loss avoidance) reasons for doing the same. 

A study of the cause of injuries in 50,000 major and minor industrial injury cases reveals that 30 per cent are due to faulty instruction, 22 per cent to inattention, 14 per cent to unsafe practice, and 12 per cent to poorv, discipline, whereas 12 per cent are due to inability, physical and mentah unfitness of the employee, and only 10 per cent to mechanical hazards. 

The legal department should acquaint itself with all local, state, and Federal laws that pertain to the manufacture of the commodity, its transportation and application, atmospheric and stream pollution through the disposal of wastes, and the possibility of claims for injury, death, or disabilities in connection with the production and use of the commodity to be manufactured. The design engineer should be familiar with all such legal entanglements, so that he may advise the legal department on probable hazardous conditions and unsafe practices. 

Ensure that all protective clothing is worn and that safety procedures u-e adhered to. Unsafe practices are not only hazardous, but... 

Each employee in a low-temperature plant must be safetyconscious. He must know the procedures to be followed should he detect an unsafe condition emergency procedures must be a part of safety education. Unfortunately, in working closely with a particular system, an individual may overlook a hazardous situation that arises slowly. Accordingly, supervisors must observe operations closely. The National Safety Council suggests the use of a safety observation plan for this purpose.The plan is designed to permit observation of unsafe practices while work is in progress, discussion of these practices, and the enactment of corrective measures before an accident occurs. However, such a plan will work only if all personnel are convinced that it is needed. 

Discussing accidents or unsafe practices recently witnessed Reporting of unsafe equipntient, conditions, or practices... 

Keep in mind that a careless act occurs approximately three hundred times before a serious injury results and that there is, therefore, an excellent opportnnity to detect and correct unsafe practices before injury occurs. [Citation 35]... 

The basic premise of behavior modification programs is that the primary cause of accidents is worker error. This blame-the-victim concept provides little opportunity for effective accident prevention. Behavior modification does not focus on the fundamental safety problems that we face in the continuous process industry. For example, it does not address the need to change the dangerous contractor system or the unsafe practice of running plants far beyond their safe design limits, (p. 2)... 

As defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation 29 CFR 1910 (f) (6), a tag used in minor hazard situations where a non-immediate or potential hazard or unsafe practice presents a lesser threat of employee injury. See also Danger Tag Warning Tag. 

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