Health Hazards in UK Law
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Ergonomics in Academic Libraries
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 ... ...
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The Electronic Cottage — Haven or Nightmare?
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 ... ...
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Environment and value Does drinking water quality affect house prices?
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 ... ...
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Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction
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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Social Implications of Driver Disqualification: Reality and Road Traffic Laws*
Abstract MOTOR vehicle accidents constitute one of the major health hazards in urban societies, and it has been widely argued that some drivers are worse accident risks than others due ...
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The sanitation access to developing Asia: India's performance over 2001 and 2011
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on India's performance in sanitation over the last decade as it strives to meet the Millennium Development Goal target. Design/methodology/app...... ... poo r aware aboutthesanitation issue lack of which contributes to health hazards and gestro condition for children and old.The sanitation related ... ...
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Offender Management: Reducing hazards and building resilience
This article examines the psychological impact of working in a multi-agency team managing registered sexual and violent offenders. A review of the nature of the role and data collected from psychol...... ... stress disorder and secondary trauma could be predicted by the psychological surveillance surveys resilience andhazard measures; each mental health condition had a different set of predictors with some common features. The ndingsare a rst step towards increasing the resilience of multi-agency ... ...
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Humanitarian diplomacy in ASEAN
Progress on regional cooperation in Southeast Asia is often punctuated by decades rather than years. The exposure of the wider Asia-Pacific to natural hazards renders it the world’s most disaster p...... ... The exposure of the wider Asia-Pacific to natural hazards renders it the worlds mostdisaster prone. Since the Indian Ocean ... an important reference for humanitarian work in other areas,notably health emergencies and conflict settings. However, the localization of the global ... ...
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Clustering risk assessment method for shipbuilding industry
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to develop a risk assessment method for production processes of large-size steel ship hulls. Design/methodology/approach: – This study uses a quantitative-p...... ... use of the methodaccording to prediction of risk related to loss of health or life among people exposed to the hazardsis presented.Practical ... Score Method (Hoffman,2002).Todetermine levels of reliabilityand hazards in the qualitativemethods the conventionalscales and experts descriptions ... ...
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