Improve safety with better training and active databases
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Chemical process industries (CPI) facilities are considerably safer places within which to work compared to the workplace of many other industries with fewer inherent dangers. An analysis of almost all of the chemical process accidents that have occurred indicate that they could have been prevented, and that most of them had already happened elsewhere and been described in published reports. Preventable accidents that keep occurring within the CPI suggest that something is seriously wrong with the industry's safety training and availability of information. It is argued that CPI safety training ought to begin with discussions rather than descriptions of selected accident reports. An effective software program to detect/prevent potential accidents should also be develope
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 2000
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Supervision 101: managing the challenging employee
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Chemical process industry company supervisors confront a challenge in successfully dealing with a small but time-intensive group of employees who are considered marginal performers or problem workers. Given time, patience and diligence, such employees can be inspired and motivated to do better. A number of suggested tips may help supervisors to improve poorly performing staff. The most important thing supervisors should remember is that their goal should be to help all workers to achieve their full potential.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 1998
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Tackle abnormal situation management with better training
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Few people in the industrial workplace ever begin their jobs fully trained. The contemporary production operator must possess a variety of comptencies and the capacity to learn new ones to meet the changing demands of the 21st-century industrial work environment. A new training strategy/methodology paradigm is required that would closely link training and job activities situated in the everyday work place while creating a continuous learning environment.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 1998
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