Working alone

It is prudent to avoid working in a laboratory alone. However, if this must be done, arrangements should be made between individuals working in separate laboratories outside of conventional hours to crosscheck periodically. Alternatively, security guards may be asked to check on a laboratory worker. A worker who is alone in a laboratory should not undertake experiments known to be hazardous. 

Special rules may be necessary under unusual circumstances. The laboratory supervisor is responsible for determining whether the work requires special safety precautions, such as having two persons in the same room or in close proximity, during a particular operation. 

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Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 

These will include assessment of the work to consider the likelihood of injury and the possible consequences to the lone worker. Where hazardous substances, live electrical work, work at height or near water may be involved, lone working should normally be avoided. 

Lone worker alarms or other means of communication will be provided. 

First-aid facilities to treat minor injuries will be available during work periods and those working alone will be advised of this. 

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The most important rule when working with hydrogen cyanide is never to work alone. This appHes especially to sampling and opening lines and equipment. A second person must be in view at all times about 9 to 10 m away, must be equipped to make a rescue, and must be trained in first aid for hydrogen cyanide exposure. 

Frederick Seitz has recently remarked (Seilz 1998) that he has long thought that Nevill Mott deserved the Nobel Prize for this work alone, and much earlier in his career than the Prize he eventually received. 

However, such strategies are vulnerable to additional factors such as increased time pressure, and working alone. The combined influences of such factors may be more important than each negative factor in isolation. 

Some of Edison s commercial inventions were produced solely to break the monopolies of patents already granted. Many others represented improvements or changes of known devices these included Edison s electric light and dynamo and his quadraplex tclcgi aph and impro V cd telephone transmitter. This does not detract from the importance of his work, because in the cases of the electric light and dynamo, in particular, his work led to commercially practical devices that were widely adopted. Although some inventions, such his motion picture apparatuses, were not the result of his work alone, hut the result of the joint efforts of the staff of the laboratoiy, Edison s contribution as leader in these projects cannot he ignored. 

An assessment of each element of the program of work is carried out using the Assessment of Potential Hazards Form APHl (see below), which is to be completed by the person responsible for the task to be carried out. This may include hot work cutting/grinding work on electrical systems working alone use of hazardous materials (e.g. chemicals, solvents, etc.) confined spaces or any other work which may be of a hazardous nature. 

Managers responsible for services within works, offices or premises have an additional task in that when engaging service contractors they then have joint responsibility under the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 for the health and safety of the contractor s employees while on their premises. When engaging contractors to carry out work within the premises, systems must be implemented by which the contractor s employee works in a safe manner and does not create a hazard to the premises occupants or staff while carrying out this work. This responsibility is greater when there is an employee or service contractor working alone, as in most instances the premises communications do not allow for such circumstances (e.g. the lone employee may be working in remote areas such as plant rooms). 

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When the bottom plates are welded together, the coating is partially destroyed. Research and field work showed that protection can be achieved using volatile corrosion inhibitors under the tank [688]. This works alone or in combination with cathodic protection. Double tank bottoms for leakage monitoring are often specified for new tanks. However, the same problem of coating destruction occurs. Volatile corrosion inhibitors are an excellent solution from both a technical and an economic standpoint. This type of corrosion inhibitor... 

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The chemistry laboratory is a place for serious work. Do not perform activities without your teacher s permission. Never work alone in the laboratory. Work only when your teacher is present. 

At first, Carothers worked alone, experimenting with 75 pounds of elemental mercury. Breathing the vapor from elemental mercury was known to cause neurological problems, including agitation and depression. In many... 

Whether you are working alone or helping someone else brush up on their math, this book can help you improve math skills. 

If you are working alone to brush up on the basics, you may want to use this book in combination with a basic text or with Practical Math Success in 20 Minutes a Day. It will be helpful to read a summary of the different kinds of fractions and how to convert fractions into another form, before tackling fraction problems. If you are fairly sure of your basic math skills, however, you can use this book by itself. 

Melinda and Joaquin can restock an aisle at the supermarket in one hour working together. Melinda can restock an aisle in 1.5 hours working alone, and it takes Joaquin 2 hours to restock an aisle. If they work together for two hours, and then work separately for another two hours, how many aisles will they have completed ... 

If it would have taken her neighbor, working alone, 38 hours to build the shed, how long will it take Belinda, working alone, to build her shed ... 

I d like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Fan who showed confidence in me to take up this task and was always supportive. I d also like to thank the authors who contributed to this book despite their busy schedules. All of them are recognized and respected experts in the areas they wrote about. The most appreciation goes to my wife, Rae, who endured many missing weekends while I worked alone in the office. 

The working together of two substances to give a result of greater effect than would be expected by the simple addition of the effects of the two substances working alone. 

Looking back, we must state with a note of regret that the contribution by I.M. Lifshitz to the physics of polymers and biopolymers, however widely known and esteemed in the scientific community, is still known and esteemed insufficiently. Many of his ideas were not understood and had to be rediscovered, and his priority is not always mentioned, as it should have been. Especial regret is felt because the more general ideas that I.M. Lifshitz often presented and discussed in public, but never published in printed form, are practically unknown to the scientific community. Today, researchers are not used to presenting ideas as yet unpublished, and most people believe that the achievements of a scientist should be rightly judged by his printed works alone. This, however, would be most unjust when applied to I.M. Lifshitz. 

Analytical work, alone, has educed much helpful information on the structure of polysaccharides.1104 Results in this field have come primarily... 

Bring a friend. You must never work alone. If you have a serious... 

With a safety-related problem of this magnitude, is it likely that you and Tom worked alone on this problem If you need to recruit others from outside of your organization, how can you get them to place the same priority on this problem that you have ... 

Never work alone, or out of earshot of somebody else. Always work during normal office hours, unless special arrangements have been made for you to be accompanied. 

In his editorial, entitled "War Chemistry and the Alleviation of Suffering," Herty pointed out that in the area of medicinal chemistry the chemist cannot work alone. He must rely on the pharmacologist and the physiologist to determine the therapeutic potential of a product. Cooperation between the chemist and the biologist was thus essential. Herty complained that universities often lacked the funds and the necessary spirit of cooperation to undertake such studies, that most manufacturing establishments had inadequate facilities for these purposes, and that government laboratories suffered from insufficient appropriations for research. Certain privately-endowed institutions, most notably the Rockefeller Institute, provided the appropriate environment for such cooperative research, but there were few such institutions and their capacity for work was necessarily limited. 

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