#active monitoring

📖 Introduction You cannot improve what you cannot measure. In health and safety, performance measurement helps an organisation understand whether policies and procedures are working as intended. By measuring performance, employers can identify weaknesses, ensure compliance, and continuously improve safety. This lecture explains active and reactive monitoring, audits, and reviews as key…

Safety monitoring system includes

Safety monitoring system includes Active and Reactive monitoring – a long-term and continuous process of observing, collecting, reporting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and information on workplace safety in an organization. Monitoring of the health and safety condition is carried out in the form of tests, measurements, assessments and analyzes of existing hazards, as well as…

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Nurse Wins Ebola Quarantine Court Battle, Backs Off Stance

Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend Ted Wilbur – photo from the Portland Press Herald

Kaci Hickox won the court battle over quarantine, after a Judge lifted the stringent restrictions placed on her. He did replace those requirements with moderate ones which should mediate any problems. The nurse has backed off her rigid stance to accept those “kinder, gentler” requirements.

Not cooperative then, but now…

As reported by Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children previously, Kaci was not willing to cooperate with any New Jersey quarantine requirements. She openly defied them, stating she was not sick and wasn’t about to skip going on bike rides or  anything else. She was so defiant about it that she hired a well known attorney to fight for her- and it worked, as she was released from New Jersey’s mandatory quarantine to go back home to Maine.

But Maine was so concerned that they went to court to obtain the legal right to force her into quarantine.

That’s when we found out she was a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, not just a nurse for Doctors Without Borders.

New rules – she will comply

The judge said that the State of Maine failed to produce enough evidence to warrant a mandatory quarantine.

CNN wrote,

District Court Chief Judge Charles LaVerdiere ordered nurse Kaci Hickox, who recently returned to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, to submit to “direct active monitoring,” coordinate travel with public health officials and immediately notify health authorities should symptoms appear. Another hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

Standing with her boyfriend Ted Wilbur, outside their home in Maine, Hickox told reporters the decision was a “good compromise” and that she would continue to comply with direct active monitoring.

Hickox told Meet the Press that she wanted the national debate to be about “science” not fear. She is right about that part. Fear is highly destructive to all, and causes people and especially governments to do foolish things.

In an interview with the Portland Press Herald, she stated,

“I understand that the community has been through a lot in the past week and I apologize to them for that… have had a few friends come visit me in my home and that’s absolutely fantastic.

Sometimes we fight for our rights, but it doesn’t mean we have to act on them… I hope in six months aid workers returning back can be unnoticed. They won’t be in the media like I was, I hope.

And they can walk into a grocery store and maybe no one even knows they were working in a country with Ebola. But one day I hope everyone can know and still smile at them in the grocery store. I know that won’t happen today.” Kaci Hickox

Kaci and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, have gone biking together, and she has been seen paying for home delivery of food. She was tested for Ebola twice and came up negative both times. Her monitoring period will end on November 10.

The following interview with Kaci is from the Portland Press Herald

The are no doubts about benefits of regression and automated testing. Lately browser automated tests are becoming even more popular and one of the leaders in this area is Selenium (seleniumhq.org), an open-source testing tool that's using real web browsers to perform your tests.

Here is a simple JUnit test that is checking home page's title.

public class Example1Test { private WebDriver wd; @Before public void before() { wd = new FirefoxDriver(); wd.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); } @Test public void test_title() { wd.get("http://example.com"); assertEquals("Welcome to exemple.com!", wd.getTitle()); } @After public void after() { wd.close(); wd.quit(); } }

This is a basic Selenium test, but does quite a few things. It will open Firefox browser, navigate to example.com, assert the title and if it doesn't match junit will fail and let you know where. Usually you'd run tests like this in your continuous integration setup, after each build and deployment. This is a good practice, but I think we can go even further and run these tests continuously, as part of continous regression testing setup, against production web apps. How often it's up to you, but the more tests you have the more chances to prevent some issues that occur only in production. One thing to mention is that if you're using Google Analytics, you have to make sure that Selenium tests don't mess up your stats, you can though avoid that*

At QABot, we're running our smoke tests every 15 minutes, which include checking if ToS, Privacy and Contacts pages are available, but we're not stopping here, we'll be adding more tests once we have more functionality and more content.