The purpose of a Safety Data Sheet (SDS), formerly known as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), is to provide information on the hazards of working with a chemical and procedures that should be used to ensure safety. State and Federal law require that employers obtain an SDS for each hazardous substance they use or store and make the SDS available to employees. The PI/instructor is responsible ...

Architects use a variety of techniques to evaluate designs for the desired levels of specific quality attributes. Reasoning frameworks are used to guide architecture definition by determining the extent to which a software architecture satisfies its quality requirements. There is much work on reasoning about quality attributes such as performance and modifiability but there has been little work...

The purpose of a Safety Data Sheet (SDS), formerly known as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), is to provide information on the hazards of working with a chemical and procedures that should be used to ensure safety. State and Federal law require that employers obtain an SDS for each hazardous substance they use or store and make the SDS available to employees. The PI/instructor is responsible ...

background : in china, over 80% of all work-related deaths in the mining industry occur in coal mines and human factors constitute 85% of the direct causes of coal mine accidents, which indicates that significant shortcomings cur-rently exist in the safety behavior management of chinese coal mine workers. we aimed to verify the impact of human psychological behavior in coal mine accidents syste...

the establishment of good process safety management (psm) is widely considered as the most effective means of improving safety levels in process industries. this study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of establishing and implementing psm requirements based on occupational health and safety assessment series 18001 standards (ohsas 18001) and health, safety and environment management sys...

background: one of the necessities of industrial societies is the application of developed measures/strategies for the prevention of occupational incidents in industrial companies. the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the role of the safety management system on safety culture of an oil and gas exploration and production company. materials and methods: this study was condu...

Introduction I always feel guilty when I go see the dentist. We all know the rules—avoid sweets, brush after every meal, floss several times a day. Talking about tool and shop safety gets the same treatment in articles and books– always read the owner’s manual, inspect your tool for hazards daily, make sure your tools are properly grounded (sound familiar?) The challenge I present to you is tha...

To cite: Koppel R. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs2015-004746 With their health information technology (HIT) safety framework, Drs Hardeep Singh and Dean Sittig offer many admirable suggestions to improve the safety of computerised provider order entry and electronic health records (EHRs). As I shall try to explain, however, I find their pr...

Achieving best practice in process safety leadership and management is a goal that I firmly believe is essential for the chemicals industry, and something I am determined to help CIA member companies attain. Our industry has a strong tradition of learning lessons from one another and health and safety is no exception. Over recent years, the industry’s safety record has been a good one, in part ...

We introduce Rambrain, a user space C++ library that manages memory consumption of data-intense applications. Using Rambrain one can overcommit memory beyond the size of physical memory present in the system. While there exist other more advanced techniques to solve this problem, Rambrain focusses on saving development time by providing a fast, general and easy-to-use solution. Rambrain takes c...