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.
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.
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.
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; ....
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.
Why would someone think that this is what matters, rather than the
hazardousness itself?
Human activities are partially responsible for the
hazardousness of flood-prone areas.
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.
The spiritual value of pilgrimage, for men or women, might be debatable, though it was widely believed in; its physical
hazardousness was beyond dispute.
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.
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.
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.
