Workforce

Despite all that has been written about the workers behavior being the basic cause of the majority of accidents, the worker is in reality the person with the most knowledge about the workplace, work activities, and workplace risks. The worker is the expert and may have many years of experience doing a particular job, so why not consult him or her about the risks of the job and how to make it safer Perhaps we are so busy trying to fix the worker to prevent the accident that we have overlooked him or her as a source of safety information. A good policy is that if in doubt, ask the expert, and by speaking to the worker you will be speaking to the expert. 

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Even if geological conditions for the presence of hydrocarbons are promising, host country political and fiscal conditions must also be favourable for the commercial success of exploration ventures. Distance to potential markets, existence of an infrastructure, and availability of a skilled workforce are further parameters which need to be evaluated before a long term commitment can be made. 

The scientific area is often characterized by a highly fluctuating and international workforce. This makes it necessary to document the source code and to represent e. g. the class structure in order to introduce new staff to the system easily. Conversely, non-existent documentation may lead to the necessity of reimplementation. 

The workforce consists of 92 shift and 8 daily workers. Approximately 20 to 30 different fine chemicals are produced per year which range ia volume from 20 to 200 metric tons per train and ia campaign length from 20 to 180 days. 

Manpower Labor Contracts. Some faciUties prefer a strict manpower contract that suppHes skilled or unskilled labor as requited to fill ia and supplement an existing workforce. Arrangements can be made at the outset for temporary workers to be hired by the faciUty, if the need for thein service continues and they fit well iato the ia-house organization. 

The adoption of the Taylor system in the late nineteenth century changed the lines of responsibihty for product quahty (4). This management philosophy was based on using incentives, such as pay based on output, to motivate worker productivity. As the workforce became better educated and labor unions gained strength, it became difficult to motivate workers doing simple, repetitive tasks (5). 

The technical workforce has become more diverse. Technology managers need to educate themselves about the changing nature of the workforce, the implications for the future, and the opportunities made possible by a more heterogeneous organization (66). 

Tables 27-1 to 27-3 have concentrated on the personnel makeup of control agencies. For a broader look at places of employment. Table 27-4 shows where 8037 members of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) of the United States and Canada worked in 1982. (This list includes foreign as well as domestic members of APCA but does not include the membership of the air pollution control associations of other countries.) This table shows that only 10.7% of the members work in control agencies. This table gives a somewhat distorted picture because in many air pollution organizations only the senior executive, professional, and scientific personnel belong to APCA, whereas the total North American workforce in air pollution includes several times the 8037 membership total who are in junior, technical, service, or manual sectors and are not association members. These numbers could be still greater if those engaged in this work outside North America were included. The Air Pollution Control Association changed its name to the Air and Waste Management Association in 1988. The Air and Waste Management Association had a membership of over 14,000 in 1993, but only a portion of the members were active in the air pollution profession.

Training and instruction of the workforce. Retraining. This should cover both normal and emergency situations. 

In the first environment, we are concerned with the potential health risks that chemicals pose to the public, as well as possible impacts on the ecology. In the latter case, we are concerned with indoor air quality and its possible adverse impacts on the health and safety of the workforce. In both cases the health dangers may be either acute, or long-term chronic health risks. We will first discuss general concepts of air pollution and table our discussions on... 

In an effort to keep a workforce interchangeable, site management may attempt to have all workers trained in selected topics to perform the services that they provide. This philosophy has certain advantages, such as ... 

An educated workforce that can recognize a variety of hazards... 

Announce to the workforce that you now have a quality policy that affects everyone from the top down. 

Logically, a representative carries the wishes of the people they represent to a place where decisions are taken that affect them - this is the case for Members of Parliament, Union Representatives, Committee Members, etc. The note would appear to address the need for representation outside the business. Inside the business, the representative represents management to the workforce but not in the same sense. The person carries the wishes of management (i.e. the policies) to the workforce so that the workforce makes decisions that take into account the wishes of management. 

Occupational Safety and Health, Iowa Workforce Development... 

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As indicated previously, PSM information and messages have different values for different audiences. Your company s workforce has a more immediate and specific interest in the initiative than people who are less directly affected, such as plant neighbors, shareholders, or the general public. This doesn t mean confining communications efforts solely to company employees it simply suggests that you organize communications priorities to reflect levels of interest and information needs. 

Measures to reduce human error are often implemented at an existing plant, rather than during the design process. The decision to conduct an evaluation of the factors that can affect error potential at an existing plant may be taken for several reasons. If human errors are giving rise to unacceptable safety, quality or production problems, plant management, with the assistance of the workforce, may wish to carry out a general evaluahon or audit of the plant in order to identify the direct causes of these problems. 

As discussed earlier in this chapter, the main requirements to ensure an appropriate safety culture are similar to those which are advocated in quality management systems. These include active participation by the workforce in error and safety management initiatives, a blame-free culture which fosters the free flow of information, and an explicit policy which ensures that safety considerations will always be primary. In addition both operations and management staff need feedback which indicates that participation in error reduction programs has a real impact on the way in which the plant is operated and systems are designed. 

Success is more likely if the appeal is direct and specific rather than diffuse and general. Similarly, the propaganda must be relevant for the workforce at their particular place of work or it will not be accepted. 

The worker knew that valve A had to be closed. However, it was believed by the workforce that despite the operating instructions, closing B had a similar effect to closing A and in fact produced less disruption to downstream production. Possible cause violation as a result of mistaken information and an informal company culture to concentrate on production rather than safety goals (wrong intention). 

From the perspective of the CPI, this result suggests that it would be valuable to carry out a survey of the perceptions of the workforce with regard to the risks associated with different aspects of plant operations (both field and... 

A considerable area of research has focused on the way in which age can affect performance. This has been prompted by the increasing age of the general workforce. In general, the effects of age on performance will be determined by two factors, namely, characteristics of the particular task and level of experience with it. Literature reviewed by Murrell (1965) has identified four biological changes which take place with age, namely ... 

This section sets out a step-by-step procedure for setting up a data collection system, including the important issues of gaining workforce acceptance and management support. 

The first area focuses on the cultural and organizational factors that will have a major influence on the effectiveness of a human error data collection system and how well the information derived from such a system is translated into successful error reduction strategies. Regardless of how effectively the technical issues are dealt with, the system will not be successful imless there is a culture in the organization which provides support for the data gathering process. No data collection system aimed at identifying human error causes of accidents will be workable without the active cooperation of the workforce. 

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