A Review of Personnel Policies and Procedures Developed for St. Charles County in 1984

This paper will discuss the development, design and formulation of personnel policies and procedures for St. Charles County in 1984. At the time the process of development started, the county was without an approved personnel policies and procedures system and was concerned about a possible federal audit that could result in their losing federal funds because of the lack of formal policies. In order to develop a system that would be used by the various county offices, input was sought from elected and appointed officials as well as other levels of county employees. The success and failure of this method is discussed, along with how it provided a basis for developing policies accepted by the majority of the people who were involved in the process. The policies and procedures that were approved by the county court are included in the paper. Statistical analysis of the county and surrounding areas is also included to illustrate the constituent makeup of the county and how the local government responds to what it perceives are the desires of its constituents

A Comparison Between Emergency Nursing Stress and Completion of the Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course

A descriptive, retrospective, correlational study design was used to determine emergency nurses’ perceptions of stress before and after completion of the Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC). A sample of 93 randomly chosen emergency nurses completed the Modified Clinical Stress Questionnaire. Using the paired t-test, differences were found between the before and after mean scores on stress, threat, and challenge (p \u3c .01). Scores were lower after ENPC for stress and threat, but higher for challenge. The t-test was used to compare the mean scores of nurses with and without certification in emergency nursing. The only significant difference between the two groups was on the threat score after ENPC, with the certified group reporting lower perception of threat (t = -2.40, p = .02). Overall, lower perception of stress was reported in all groups following ENPC

SAFETY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ASSESSMENT FOR SMALL AIRCRAFT AIRFRAME SYSTEMS

Safety performance indicators are the parameters used for monitoring and assessing safety performance. Such factors are determined based on available safety databases, collected on government level (in Poland Civil Aviation Authority) or by aircraft operators. Aircraft system failure during different flight phases can cause an accident or an incident. Polish Civil Aviation Authority between other data bases manages two important ones called: European Coordination Centre for Aviation Incident Reporting Systems (ECCAIRS) and Aircraft Continuing Airworthiness Monitoring (ACAM).General Aviation (GA) operates mainly aircraft with MTOM<5700 kg powered by the single piston engine. At present, reliability of GA aircraft systems in Poland is unknown. Increasing size of this fleet in Poland requires taking necessary measures in order to establish safety risks and safety performance targets for GA fleet. The authors have performed processing of the data included in available databases analysing airframe failures based on criteria like: phases of flight, ATA chapters concerning aircraft systems and the category of occurrence. The goal of this article is to present method of the current reliability of GA aircraft systems assessment. The results of this analysis can support the decisions of supervisory authorities in the areas where security threats are most important also can help production organizations in identification of the aircraft systems, which required design changes

Safety performance indicators assessment for small aircraft airframe systems

Safety performance indicators are the parameters used for monitoring and assessing safety performance. Such factors are determined based on available safety databases, collected on government level (in Poland Civil Aviation Authority) or by aircraft operators. Aircraft system failure during different flight phases can cause an accident or an incident. Polish Civil Aviation Authority between other data bases manages two important ones called: European Coordination Centre for Aviation Incident Reporting Systems (ECCAIRS) and Aircraft Continuing Airworthiness Monitoring (ACAM).General Aviation (GA) operates mainly aircraft with MTOM<5700 kg powered by the single piston engine. At present, reliability of GA aircraft systems in Poland is unknown. Increasing size of this fleet in Poland requires taking necessary measures in order to establish safety risks and safety performance targets for GA fleet. The authors have performed processing of the data included in available databases analysing airframe failures based on criteria like: phases of flight, ATA chapters concerning aircraft systems and the category of occurrence. The goal of this article is to present method of the current reliability of GA aircraft systems assessment. The results of this analysis can support the decisions of supervisory authorities in the areas where security threats are most important also can help production organizations in identification of the aircraft systems, which required design changes

Experimental and Theoretical Optimization of BiI3 Selective-Contact Solar Cell Materials

BiI3 is an n-type semiconductor synthesized in thin layers. Although the material has favorable optoelectronic properties, its efficiency (PCE) does not contend with silicon. To address this, we optimized the layers. The BiI3 cell contained the following layers, in order: Glass/FTO/TiO2/BiI3/ P3HT/Gold, where we optimized the BiI3 and TiO2 layers. We optimized the TiO2 layer through an additional mesoporous layer and optimized the overall interlayer contact through a 10 minute 100°C post-anneal, improving the JSC and VOC, respectively. We oxidized the BiI3 layer and increased the grain size via solvent vapor annealing in DMF, improving VOC, and supported this finding through computational modeling. Achieving a PCE of 0.23%, we affirm that BiI3 is a promising material