Inspectors also need to understand the relevant food laws and regulations, including methods they can legally use to inspect industry facilities and hold producers accountable for the findings.
On the federal level, before the spill, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hadn't inspected Freedom Industries, and the E.P.A. seems to have left matters entirely to state officials.
Of the 174 auditors inspected by their industry's newish regulator, almost half have been deemed to have some trouble doing their job satisfactorily.
Blowout preventers — the device that failed in the BP explosion — must be inspected and certified by industry, government and third-party professionals.
The industry inspects itself, reporting its own safety lapses to ward off fines.
Since 2007, Apple had built one of the most extensive auditing programs in the electronics industry, inspecting over 800 facilities.
The federal Food and Drug Administration the world's foremost regulator of drug safety refuses to inspect the cottage industry for fear of legitimising it.
- It sets strict safety standards, inspects private (yikes!) industry manufacturing plants, imposes fines (e.g., Genzyme just paid $175M) for unsafe practices, and can ask prosecutors to indict violators who, upon conviction, could go to jail.
Later, Gap was the driving force behind the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, an industry group that inspected all 587 factories from which its members source and provided safety training to 1.1 million factory managers and workers.
This paper reviews various optical inspection approaches in the semiconductor industry and categorize the previous literatures by the inspection algorithm and inspected products.
