Health Hazards in UK Law

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Books & Journal Articles
  • Ergonomics in Academic Libraries
    • No. 15-1, February 1994
    • Library Management
    • 26-35
    Examines ergonomics with particular reference to the libraries of Liverpool John Moores University and the City of Liverpool Community College, Central. Following a definition of ergonomics and ana...
    ... ... The Health of MunitionsWorkers Committee was formed in 1915,containing individuals ... , but this does not mean that there areradiation-induced health hazards for operators.Studies of the use of VDUs under normaloperating conditions ... ...
  • The Electronic Cottage — Haven or Nightmare?
    • No. 85-1/2, January 1985
    • Industrial Management & Data Systems
    • 22-25
    Changing work patterns and the development of new technology (principally microcomputers being connected through the telephone network) the way is clear to the “telecommuting” era in which informat...
    ... ... sectors of the working class against each other, by undermining health and safety standards, by encouraging employer flouting of collective ... people, home working means appalling wages, insecurity and health hazards". Conclusions There is nothing in the technology itself which is ... ...
  • Environment and value Does drinking water quality affect house prices?
    • No. 17-5, December 1999
    • Journal of Property Investment & Finance
    • 444-463
    This research paper investigates the effect of drinking water quality on property values in Charlesbourg, a major municipality (70,000 inhabitants) of the Quebec City region where repeated water‐re...
    ... ... inhabitants) of the Quebec City regionwhere repeated water-related health problems were experienced in 1990 and 1991. In this paper,807 bungalow ... Our findings indicatethat water-related health hazards exert a detrimental and measurable impact on higher propertyvalues, with ... ...
  • Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction
    • No. 16-1, January 2019
    • World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development
    • 2-21
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of the big data technologies for health and safety risks analytics in the power infrastructure domain with large data sets of health and s...
    ... ... of the architecture interfaced various technology artefacts was implemented in the Java languageto predict the likelihoods of health hazards occurrence. A preliminary evaluation of the proposed architecturewas carried out with a subset of an objective data, obtained from a leading UK power ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
  • The Regulator Health And Safety At Work Act
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... contravention, there has been a serious accident or a case of ill health; or Where there are persistent poor standards for control of health hazards. Prosecutions without prior warning ... In some cases where the contravention is a serious one, it may be right to prosecute without giving prior ... ...
  • UK Nanosafety Group Publishes Updated Guidance to Support Safe Working with Nanomaterials
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    In May 2016, the UK Nanosafety Group (UKNSG) published a second edition of its guidance document, Working Safely with Nanomaterials in Research & Development. The second edition of the guidance pr...
    ... ... “Monitoring.”  The document draws attention to the possible health hazards that could result from exposure to particulate nanomaterials and ... ...
  • Restaurants And Caterers Voluntarily To Display Calories On Menus
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... in New York from March 2008, whereby the NYC Health Department has ... required chain restaurants with more than 15 outlets ... reasonably anticipate that health hazards will arise during the ... normal expected use of a product ... There has ... ...
  • Waving Goodbye To Legal Privilege
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... relating to risks including exposure to asbestos, pollution and health hazards - losses which may not become evident until long after the ... ...
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