Workshop Attendees

Field Applicability Testing (FAT) Workshop. In March 1982, the EPA Office of Research and Development convened a workshop with the specific objectives to (1) assess the state of knowledge on determining the field applicability of laboratory bioassay tests, toxicity studies, microcosm studies, and mathematical chemical exposure models (i.e., the extent to which these methods have been tested/compared with field data), and (2) recommend research objectives and priorities to advance the current level of field testing. Workshop attendees included representatives from EPA research laboratories, universities, and private industry. 

The real inspiration for this book came while teaching innovation to clients and workshop attendees who kept asking, Where can we get all these techniques in one place We listened time after time until we had something of an epiphany. The answer was nowhere, and for good reasons. 

The results of the comparative testing experiments should be documented in a report summarizing all experiments and results. Considerable attention must be paid to details of all aspects, observations, and results of the experiments. In some cases, the results for the receiving laboratory may not meet the established acceptance criteria. Such situations should be addressed by a policy that must be in place to describe how such data would be handled. PhRMA workshop attendees were almost unanimous in stating that such failed acceptance criteria did not constitute the need for an OOS investigation. Regardless of whether such a policy is followed, an investigation into all results that fall outside of the acceptance criteria should be performed and summarized. 

California, Santa Barbara. Workshop participants included paper authors, six members of the Advisory Panel with economic or financial expertise, and a small number of outside experts who reviewed and critiqued the papers for revision. (See table A-2 for a list of workshop attendees.) This review greatly enhanced the quality and clarity of the contract papers, some of which became essential pieces of the R D assessment. 

Access to archives was discussed with much interest. Some workshop attendees consider many chemical journals to be at the bottom of their class in regard to access to archives, as well as author rights. Authors in chemical journals often do not retain the right to use their work in subsequent compilations, post it on their web sites, post and update it on e-print service, or automatically grant third-party noncommercial use. A number of participants expressed... 

Reaching the goal of constructing a quality workshop to be offered to one s peers turned out to be a strenuous exercise. By the end of the 10-day period the frameworks of both workshops were completed— proposed hourly schedules and lists of workshop requirements were assembled—but the written materials to be distributed to workshop attendees were still in unacceptable condition. These were available only after several months of rewriting and editing by the director and staff. The materials still are continually being updated and revis by both the teachers and the former NWW staff for use by the teams in their outreach workshops and demonstrations. 

Occasionally, it is not possible to engage a safety professional despite my facilitation skill set. In one case, a company that belonged to a consortium was volunteered by its operations manager to be one of the sites the workshop attendees would visit for a Safety Gemba Walk the day after the classroom portion of the workshop. In a pre-event planning phone discussion, which included the consortium facilitator and the site safety manager,... 

In this book, I talk a lot about the differences between compliance safety and continuous improvement safety. As noted, compliance safety is a requirement driven by OSHA and a company s internally written safety rules and regulations. Because of my work history, I am aware of many OSHA requirements, but I am quick to tell clients and workshop attendees that I do not... 

On Day 2, the workshop attendees were split into four kaizen (continuous improvement) teams and sent to specific work areas to observe associates at work. They were given opportunity logs onto which they were to record as many opportunities as they could identify. I joined the site manager for a Lean Safety Gemba Walk. We observed individual workstations and checked in with each kaizen team to ensure they understood their objective and were harvesting opportunities. 

Because I was presenting in English, the workshop attendees, who mostly spoke Russian, wore headsets and were Intently listening to the translator located in a booth at the rear of the room. For me, the lag time between what I said and when they heard it from the translator was a bit of a disconnect with my audience. However, it was not as bad as presenting a webinar, which requires you to talk to your computer and never see your audience. 

The next day, the workshop attendees were split into kaizen teams and sent to specific areas to engage the workers and identify opportunities. One of the teams worked in an area where there were large stainless... 

I love it when workshop attendees really take the Lean Safety training to heart and think about how they can use their new skill set to make a safety difference when they return to work. The quote above exemplifies that type... 

E) presented lectures (Appendix D) on topics that covered different aspects of the problem, and they addressed issues in all areas of chemical science and engineering. Considerable input for the report was also provided by a series of breakout sessions (Appendix G) in which all workshop attendees participated (Appendix... 

For testing of other sensors the techniques are not always so simple or elTective. Here are a few suggestions. The workshop attendees may have their own ideas to add here. With the aid of the flip chart we will sketch out and discuss methods for typical sensors. These will include ... 

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