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Occupational health An adverse health or ecologic effect; a source of risk if an exposure pathway exists, and if exposures have possible adverse consequences. See Health hazard, Hospitalization hazard, No apparent public health hazard, Physical hazard.

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Q. Hello ! my name is Jay .. i am 35 years old and i am extremely over weight and i am very aware to it's hazards and risks and i am trying to loos weight and stay on my diet .. the problem is , and this is a tough one , i can not stick with it .. doesn't matter which diet i try , i get to a point where i just find my self fighting with myself with the urge to eat and i always loos ... i am over weight , i have no close friends to push me forward with my diet and i am loosing hope !!! is there someone who is familiar with this type of condition or status ? or has been or seen a similar case ?

A. For exercise I walked...started out a little at a time and walked everyday...this is going to sound so silly to you but I am a person who likes to set goals and meet them. SO I picked out a place I wanted to go( it was New Orleans) I found out miles from where i was to there and i charted the distance I walked until I "walked" to New Orleans, once there I picked a place( Denver, Co) and again walked to Denver. When I first started walking it was a 1/2 mile at a time BUT before I knew it it was a mile, two miles etc. It encourage me to "keep walking". Now I have a lot of health problems that aren't associated to my weight BUT I still try to make sure I walk...hey if interested maybe we could pick a place and both "walk" there...it would encourage me to walk daily also! Jay I wish you the best of luck and again contact me if you wish.
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The second factor, severity of injury, should be analyzed in conjunction with the first factor, product hazardousness. Thus, if a product is proven hazardous based on extensive safety regulations imposed by government safety organizations, and the injury is caused by a hazard that the regulations intend to prevent against, the severity of the injury should be considered with great weight.

Standardizing the stream of commerce theory: a method to the madness after J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro

The standard creates a two-part chain of disclosure: First, chemical manufacturers and importers must evaluate the hazardousness of the substances they produce or import and disclose such information to employers who purchase their products; and second, employers must make this information available to all of their workers who handle hazardous substances.

Improving workplace hazard communication: The information-based system set up to protect workers from chemical exposure is in need of an overhaul

Mileti also suggests the need to establish holistic government policies for disasters and development, improve local and regional responsibility and capability, transfer knowledge about disasters to other nations, and determine the hazardousness of the nation.

A comparison of disaster paradigms: the search for a holistic policy guide

Recognising that the long-term solution to the stockpiling of hazardous wastes is a reduction in the generation of those wastes -- both in terms of quantity and hazardousness -- Ministers meeting in December of 1999 set out guidelines for the Convention's activities during the next decade, including: active promotion and use of cleaner technologies and production methods; ....

Good environmental work hampered. (Backfill)

Bruce Lofquist works with the International Institute of Concern for Public Health in Toronto, and is writing a book tentatively entitled Children's Health and Designer Pesticides: The Hazardousness of Everyday Places.

Home Hazards: Residential pesticides pose threats to children's health. (Children & Health)

Why would someone think that this is what matters, rather than the hazardousness itself?

Epilogue: is there an issue here?

Human activities are partially responsible for the hazardousness of flood-prone areas.

Flood hazard assessmentm modeling and management: results from the EUROflood project

Previous research has convincingly demonstrated that the criteria underlying risk assessments of laymen are only moderately correlated with both statistically calculated as well as subjectively perceived mortality risks.(2) Generally, the cognitive image of hazards does only to some extent reflect the objective hazardousness of the elements to which it refers in the external world.

Global risks and social inequality: critical remarks on the risk-society hypothesis

The spiritual value of pilgrimage, for men or women, might be debatable, though it was widely believed in; its physical hazardousness was beyond dispute.

Women pilgrims of the middle ages

We regress work refusals and anonymous health and safety complaints on five groups of independent variables, categorized as follows: industrial relations factors (whether collective bargaining is taking place, occurrence of a strike, occurrence of an interest arbitration, restrictions on the right to strike, and the use of grievance arbitrations); workplace and bargaining unit characteristics (the presence of an occupational health and safety committee, the hazardousness of the workplace, the total number of workers, and the presence of part-time workers in the bargaining unit); occupation; the union representing the bargaining unit; and industry.

The effects of industrial relations factors on health and safety conflict

As the Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire so amply demonstrates, the study of the empire remains, as it has always been, a conservative and cautious if not retrograde affair; it suggests also the hazardousness of the quest for `objectivity', and renders dubious the moral integrity of any such enterprise.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire

Its proponents cite numerous examples of effective procedural controls, which include: the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirement that certain agency actions be preceded by an environmental impact review; legislative provisions that assign the burden of proof under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)--which places the burden of proving the hazardousness of new chemicals on environmental groups--and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)--which places the burden of proving the safety of new hazardous chemicals on manufacturers; and the APA itself.