Safe handling of dangerous chemicals

Safe handling of radio-isotopes.

Failboxes: Provably Safe Exception Handling

The primary goal of exception mechanisms is to help ensure that when an operation fails, code that depends on the operation’s successful completion is not executed (a property we call dependency safety). However, the exception mechanisms of current mainstream programming languages make it hard to achieve dependency safety, in particular when objects manipulated inside a try block outlive the tr...

Safe patient handling and movement.

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Safe handling of tissue containing radioactive substances.

Patients recently treated with radioactive isotopes may present problems or even hazards during physical examination, operation or autopsy, especially following the use of iodine isotopes and 198Au. 32P is rarely a significant hazard. Contamination of victims of radiation accidents may be a problem initially, but they are usually promptly decontaminated. Guidance of the hospital's radiation saf...

Advice for Safe Handling of Malformed Messages

Although Internet message formats have been precisely defined since the 1970s, authoring and handling software often shows only mild conformance to the specifications. The malformed messages that result are non-standard. Nonetheless, decades of experience have shown that using some tolerance in the handling of the malformations that result is often an acceptable approach and is better than reje...