There is no guarantee there's a second person on there; and, if there is, there is no guarantee that they are safety-competent.
The six patient safety competencies were based on the Canadian Patient Safety Institute's Safety Competencies Framework, 17 18 a tool developed to encompass the knowledge, skills and attitudes required by all healthcare professionals in order to be considered competent in patient safety.
The third justification, and by far the most controversial, is paternalism; the protection of the health or safety of competent individuals irrespective of their own expressed wants or desires.
When these ingredients, however, are used in cosmetic products, they are regulated under the Cosmetics Regulation which does not require risk assessments but a 'safety evaluation' by a competent safety assessor [1].
As a result, structural engineers who are responsible for structural fire safety and are competent to do their jobs by following the rules specified in prescriptive codes may find it difficult to move toward performance-based fire safety design which requires a deep understanding of both fire and heat.
These findings support the need for ongoing development of educators as competent safety ambassadors [ 30, 32, 45].
A depressed Homer hangs around the Simpsons' house, insisting he is a competent safety-minded worker while the rest of the family makes budget cuts until Homer can find a new job.
A number of approaches have been used to enhance the safety of replication-competent VACV vectors while maintaining their immunogenicity, such as the deletion of viral genes and expression of cytokines.
Regarding the significant problems arising in handling safety data sheets, the competent authorities and industry should jointly find workable solutions.
As for cell dose, according to our first-in-man experience and data available in literature [ 4, 13, 37], we agreed about safety purposes with the competent Italian regulatory body (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS) to set at 10 × 10 the highest CD133+ cells dose.
Current developments aim to improve the safety of the replication-competent vectors and to augment the production efficiency of the genome-free vectors by expression from heterologous viral or non-viral vectors.
