The goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) is to “ensure that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are evaluated and that information concerning their hazards is transmitted to employers and employees.” You can communicate the information through a comprehensive hazard communication program, which should include contai...

Understanding and complying with the guidelines of the American Society of Anesthesiologists will help ensure high-quality patient care, increase levels of patient safety, and minimize medico-legal risk. The author discusses important standards and guidelines for the administration of general anesthesia and sedation/analgesia in the office-based setting and compares the requirements of the diff...

Beside being a good neighbor and not causing harmonic voltage for others that are connected to your electrical distribution circuit, complying with the legal requirements of IEEE standards 519, and maintaining safe and economical operating environments for electrical equipment within your physical load, there is another very good reason to maintain a good power factor: saving money on your elec...

Recycling treatment of cable insulation resin generated from electric wires and cables was investigated. Conventional insulation PVC contains a lead component, tribase, as a thermal stabilizer and lead removal is necessary to recycle this PVC as insulation resin. This paper describes a solid surface adsorption method using ion exchange resin to remove the fine lead containing particles from PVC...

Health sciences libraries that provide fee-based information services must consider and develop policies and procedures for complying with legal requirements. This paper reviews the provisions of copyright law that pertain to document delivery, including two court decisions concerning copyright. Also discussed are recent actions by publishers to reinforce their view of libraries' responsibiliti...

Social systems are calling attention to adequate sets of rules as e.g. to comply with the rules of Asimov as a codex [BF05]. In the context of Multiple Sensor Data Fusion (MSDF) a variety of interacting (logical) sensor agents might autonomously self-organize their part of complex tasks’ organizational solution processes due to co-operations, communications and co-ordinations. Even computationa...