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Risk management
Risk Management Risk management is a systematic process of identifying and assessing company risks and taking actions to protect a company against them. The task of the risk manager is to predict and enact measures to control or prevent losses within a company. The risk-management process involves... Read more |
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High-Risk Pregnancy
High-risk pregnancy Definition Although as of 2004 there was no formal or universally accepted definition of a "high-risk" pregnancy, it is generally thought of as one in which the mother or the developing fetus has a condition that places one or both of them at a... Read more |
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Delaney Amendment
DELANEY AMENDMENT DELANEY AMENDMENT. In 1958, U.S. Representative James Delaney of New York added a proviso to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act declaring that the Food and Drug Administration cannot approve any food additive found to induce cancer in a person or animal. The clause... Read more |
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Risk
Risk Risk is the potential for harm. Although the concept of risk Read more |
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Risk assessment
Risk analysis Risk is the chance that something undesirable will happen. Everyone faces personal risks daily; we all have a chance of being struck by a car or by lightning or of catching a cold. None of these are certain to happen today, but they all can and do happen occasionally, some more... Read more |
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Periodic Health Examination
PERIODIC HEALTH EXAMINATION The purpose of the periodic health examination is to evaluate health status, screen for risk factors and disease, and provide preventive counseling interventions in an age-appropriate manner. The goal of screening and evaluation is to prevent the onset of disease or the... Read more |
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a social epidemiologic surveillance system established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to monitor health-risk behaviors among high school students, evaluate the... Read more |
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underwriter
underwriter, an insurer of ships and cargoes from loss and damage, the name coming from the insurer writing his name under the policy of insurance. The request for insurance is termed the offering of a ‘risk’, and in marine insurance the word risk is equivalent to the liability of the... Read more |
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Toxic Substances Control Act
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT During the early part of the twentieth century there was a tremendous increase in the development of new synthetic chemicals, as well as a rise in industrial uses for older ones. By 1976 it was estimated that there were 60,000 chemical substances in commercial use in the... Read more |
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Mistake
MISTAKE The criminal law exists to prevent various kinds of harm, and those who violate its prohibitions are usually culpable because conduct that risks or causes harm is generally culpable conduct. For various reasons, however, a wedge can be driven between culpability and the causing or... Read more |
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The Precautionary Principle: a Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk...
...precautionary principle. In practice...formalized the precautionary principle...environment, the precautionary approach...to prevent environmental degradation...progress toward risk ... |
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European Environment Agency's new book on the precautionary principle.(Brief...
...precautionary principle 1896-2000...an early "precautionary approach...about the precautionary principle...view of the precautionary principle...Principle: A Critical ... |
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Feeling good about globalization. (Policy Perspectives).(Excerpt)
...States, improving both environmental and human wellbeing...Moreover, gaps in these critical measures of well-being...and the author of The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental ... |