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Useful Advices - How to Create a Safe and Productive Workplace
Many times it seems that the only way to create a safe workplace is to send every one home and close the doors. Potential hazards abound in all places where goods are produced and services are rendered. Here are five simple steps for creating a safer and more productive work environment.
Step 1.
Step 1.
According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
Identify what you don’t want:
First of all get to know what it is you are trying to avoid. You are most likely trying to avoid having injuries. You don’t want lawsuits and fines. You also don’t want to loose productivity to implement the program.
Begin by identifying the most common hazards and ty
First of all get to know what it is you are trying to avoid. You are most likely trying to avoid having injuries. You don’t want lawsuits and fines. You also don’t want to loose productivity to implement the program.
Begin by identifying the most common hazards and ty
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
es of injuries or illness in your workplace. Look at your OSHA log or other records to see what types of injuries you have had in the past. Remember that what has happened in the past will happen again unless proper preventative measures are taken.
Interview employees to see what potential injuries
Interview employees to see what potential injuries
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
may have gone unreported. Take a look at the workplace yourself to see what minor injuries are occurring that the employees think are normal and not to be reported.
Monitor the supplies in the first aid kit. What supplies do you have to replenish the most? Where are they being used?
Next, identify
Monitor the supplies in the first aid kit. What supplies do you have to replenish the most? Where are they being used?
Next, identify
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
the most common cause of injuries and illnesses in workplaces similar to yours. Study the available data on similar industries. Talk with other safety professionals in your industry about what injuries they most commonly experience. Try to learn form their mistakes as well as their successes.
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d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
ly, do an assessment to see what potential sources of illness or injury can be found. Make your own assessment by walking around and observing. What to you see that might cause a person to get hurt? Also, get a team together and look at the workplace together. Identify as many possible sources of in
ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
ury or illness as you can identify.
Step 2:
Decide what you do want – a safe and productive work place.
Now that you have a list of potential sources of injury and illness you need to take steps to protect workers from the hazards identified. Or at least protect them from the most severe and most
Step 2:
Decide what you do want – a safe and productive work place.
Now that you have a list of potential sources of injury and illness you need to take steps to protect workers from the hazards identified. Or at least protect them from the most severe and most
easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
likely to occur incidents.
Begin by prioritizing your list. You will have identified many potential but highly unlikely potential events in you assessment. A good place to begin is with things that have actually happened. The logical place to start is with your most common type of injury or illnes
Begin by prioritizing your list. You will have identified many potential but highly unlikely potential events in you assessment. A good place to begin is with things that have actually happened. The logical place to start is with your most common type of injury or illnes
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
.
Look at all the ways that you can think of to eliminate the hazard or at least reduce the potential for it to cause severe problems. Keep in mind that the safest workplace is where nothing happens. This is also an unprofitable workplace. Find solutions that allow the workplace to continue to oper
Look at all the ways that you can think of to eliminate the hazard or at least reduce the potential for it to cause severe problems. Keep in mind that the safest workplace is where nothing happens. This is also an unprofitable workplace. Find solutions that allow the workplace to continue to oper
and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
te in a productive manner or these rules will not be followed when you are not looking.
Step 3:
Get clear about what you are trying to accomplish:
Step back and look at the overall picture. You are in business to produce a product or provide a service. It is your duty to perform this task in the
Step 3:
Get clear about what you are trying to accomplish:
Step back and look at the overall picture. You are in business to produce a product or provide a service. It is your duty to perform this task in the
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
afest manner for your employees.
Identify any issues that may be blocking you from implementing your preventive measures. Do your potential solutions cause even more problems? Get feedback from the people who are actually doing the job to see just how effective that your ideas are. If possible, per
Identify any issues that may be blocking you from implementing your preventive measures. Do your potential solutions cause even more problems? Get feedback from the people who are actually doing the job to see just how effective that your ideas are. If possible, per
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
form the job task yourself to see if your procedures or equipment are actually effective in preventing the potential consequence.
The better your understanding of the jobs that need to be done, the better the results you will achieve.
Don’t assume that employees want to get hurt and that they don’
The better your understanding of the jobs that need to be done, the better the results you will achieve.
Don’t assume that employees want to get hurt and that they don’
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
want to follow safety rules. Make sure that the rules are compatible with performing the job.
Give clear instructions on what to do not just what not to do. Make sure that you are very clear in how a job is to be performed. Train employees in the desired procedure and audit them to see if it is be
Give clear instructions on what to do not just what not to do. Make sure that you are very clear in how a job is to be performed. Train employees in the desired procedure and audit them to see if it is be
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
ng followed. If employees are taking shortcuts or not following the procedure, find out why.
Make sure they understand the importance of following the correct procedure. Adjust the procedure if necessary to ensure that they match how the employees actually do the work.
Step 4:
Get a clear vision
Make sure they understand the importance of following the correct procedure. Adjust the procedure if necessary to ensure that they match how the employees actually do the work.
Step 4:
Get a clear vision
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
of what your safe work environment looks like.
Know for sure what you are trying to accomplish. Make these measurable goals.
Report daily on the positive aspects of the work. For example, if you have twenty people in a department and one gets hurt, don’t report one injury, report 19 people worked
Know for sure what you are trying to accomplish. Make these measurable goals.
Report daily on the positive aspects of the work. For example, if you have twenty people in a department and one gets hurt, don’t report one injury, report 19 people worked
t?
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
afely.
Complement workers on doing the job right. Stop unsafe behavior instantly when you observe it even if it means shutting down a production line. Make sure workers know the importance you place on their safety.
Make sure every one has the same vision of a safe and productive work place. Pract
Complement workers on doing the job right. Stop unsafe behavior instantly when you observe it even if it means shutting down a production line. Make sure workers know the importance you place on their safety.
Make sure every one has the same vision of a safe and productive work place. Pract
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
ce making this vision real with everyone each day.
Step 5:
Let go and let the workers do their jobs. Allow them the freedom to express their opinion on hazards and what is the safest and most productive way to get the work done. Don’t try to micromanage the safety situation. If your instructions a
Step 5:
Let go and let the workers do their jobs. Allow them the freedom to express their opinion on hazards and what is the safest and most productive way to get the work done. Don’t try to micromanage the safety situation. If your instructions a
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
re clear and your procedures are workable, then all you have to do is sit back and let the system run itself.
Continue focusing on the positive aspect of your program. Focus on the things that work and do more of them. Note the things that don’t work and avoid them. Don’t spend a lot of time trying
Continue focusing on the positive aspect of your program. Focus on the things that work and do more of them. Note the things that don’t work and avoid them. Don’t spend a lot of time trying
.
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
to figure out why they did not work, just let go and try something a bit different.
Finally, a formula for success:
Don’t assume you know everything. Get to know the work the employees are doing and work with them to create new ways to develop a safer, more productive work environment together. Do
Finally, a formula for success:
Don’t assume you know everything. Get to know the work the employees are doing and work with them to create new ways to develop a safer, more productive work environment together. Do
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
’t get stuck in trying to force a particular method on your employees. Do what works for them. Let the system evolve naturally.
Let the employees know through your actions that you care about them and their future. By producing more product in a safer and more profitable manner, all parties benefit
Let the employees know through your actions that you care about them and their future. By producing more product in a safer and more profitable manner, all parties benefit
tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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