Working environment, safe, contribution

Chemists as employers should treat subordinates with respect for their professionalism and concern for their well-being, and provide them with a safe, congenial working environment, fair compensation, and proper acknowledgment of their scientific contribution. 

A medical examination screening process, required by some employers, to determine if prospective or current employees have or currently utilize drugs that may contribute negatively to a healthy and safe work environment due to their influence on the individual. 

The benefit of controlling critical safety elements is that the work being done to manage safety is channeled at reducing the risk and potential loss in areas that have been identified as crucial. Some critical safety elements help control the physical conditions that would contribute to the reduction of losses as a result of an unsafe work environment. Other critical safety elements are directed toward the control of the persons within a workplace. These controls would include items such as critical task procedures, rules, training, and activities to involve, motivate, guide, and train employees in safe work practices. 

The Safety Plan is produced to assist and contribute to the establishment of a safe, healthy and environmentally sound working environment, so as to benefit all workers and management personnel on site, neighbours and third parties, and to minimise the environmental impact of the work. It should include details of the project and its safety, health and environmental requirements, anticipated site hazards and conditions and their means of control. It will also contain rules developed following consideration of all significant hazards and their risks, and other items which are important for the safe and efficient conduct of the work. Significant hazards in this context refers to those hazards which a competent contractor could not be expected to identify in advance. 

This author does not favor the use of static charge meters because their use is subject to operator diligence. It is a safer procedure to avoid the conditions which promote static charge accumulation as a matter of routine. Low ambient humidity is the chief contributing factor in the accumulation of hazardous static charges. In many desert areas (which seem to be favorites for ordnance work), the daytime ambient humidity is below 20% and in temperate regions, winter-time air, and indoor air, has likewise a low humidity. For this reason, also, air conditioned air, in the absence of artificial humidification, should be strictly controlled. In order to maintain a relatively safe humidity above 50% RH, the use of evaporative coolers is helpful in a desert environment. The matter of humidity control in pyrot processing plants was recently considered by Avrami et al (Refs 55 56) Miscellaneous Laboratory Hazards... 

To the hundreds of scientists, engineers, workers, and technocrats who have contributed significantly towards the development of knowledge and technology for more efficient, safe, and environment-friendly working of these industries and who will continue to do so in future. 

The incident has also contributed to the company s determination to work harder at creating a culture of safety that is, an environment in which even the lowest level supervisors are totally committed to safety and will not tolerate any departures from safe practice. 

Where we can impel people toward safety we will then urge them forward and help them use their creative power to contribute to safety. Motivation is a two-way street and if we are not creating the environment that inspires employees to greater involvement in safety processes, we should not always point a finger at them and say they are not motivated. Our own personal test is do we always encourage, involve, inspire, and impel employees Do we do enough to recognize safe work reports and other near miss incident rqx)rts ... 

The collection of experiments from chemists around the globe illustrates the broad and rich principles of silicon chemistry. All are educators and want to share their knowledge and passion for silicon chemistry. I am very thankful for their wonderful contributions. The authors of these experiments have taken great care to describe the equipment and nature of the substances employed however, as with all chemical experiments, care should be taken in handling hazardous materials in an appropriate manner in a well-ventilated hood. The experiments are intended for advanced students working in a safe laboratory environment under qualified supervision. 

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