Sentences with phrase «high safety risks»

From the funds authorized by this subsection, the Secretary shall ensure that a review is completed on each motor carrier that demonstrates through performance data that it poses the highest safety risk.

Keep in mind that fast and small cars, and many large SUVs will raise your premium, as they have higher safety risks than most other vehicles.

Not exact matches

A number of sources, including pipeline safety experts, believe bitumen to pose a higher spill risk than conventional fuels when it is transported at elevated temperatures or pressure.

«If we have some sort of geopolitical risk... gold is always going to be sort of a harbor of safety and could have a sharp spike higher.»

He realized that in by investing in companies with a high margin of safety, he reduced his risk while simultaneously increased his potential return.

When risk strikes and stocks get hit, investors will almost certainly switch to the perceived safety of high quality bonds.

Its stock valuation has dropped by more than half since July 2015; in January, it posted its first full - year loss since 2008; and one of its many tranches of bonds — one specifically designed to be a high - risk, high - reward safety valve in times of trouble — has recently begun to crash.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Borrowing from the Hippocratic oath «First, do no harm», the key for someone who is willing to sacrifice the prospect of higher return for assurance of safety, is to focus solely on legitimate high yield returns and ignore the higher risk options available.

Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

IBC's are also very labour intensive and have a high associated health and safety risk from the number of movements usually required.

Food safety risks in minimally processed dry products like almonds, pistachios, and peanuts are different from high moisture foods.

The high quality of Alfa Laval Genuine Spare Parts provides assurance of safety, efficiency, continuous operation and avoidance of risk.

Consequently, the data for risk assessment can not be regarded as reliable for determining food safety of the GR2 lines with a higher carotenoid content, if such lines were available.

Arsenal's Europa League semifinal second leg at Atletico Madrid has been classified as «high risk» by the Spanish government's public safety committee.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

The award culminated an extensive, two - year self - assessment process that required the department to develop 112 comprehensive sets of written directives that address life, health and safety issues as applied to law enforcement personnel, critical legal issues and conditions that reduce risk and high - liability exposure to the officers and the agency.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

I admit that, when it came to my sons» safety — and the safety of their teammates, I fell — and still fall — at that end of the spectrum, because I feel that, while life always involves some degree of risk, childhood should be a time when it is our responsibility as parents to minimize those risks and make it one of our highest priorities.

«NCT's own detailed review of home birth concluded that, although the quality of comparative evidence on the safety of home birth is poor, there is no evidence that for women with a low risk of complications the likelihood of a baby dying is any higher if they plan for a home birth compared with planning for a hospital birth.»

You're typically placed on bed rest for a high - risk pregnancy, so this immediately makes you worry about your future child's safety.

Or are she and the authors of the study so ignorant of childbirth safety statistics that they don't realize that the homebirth death rate 400 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth?

Planned home births for low risk women in high resource countries where midwifery is well integrated into the healthcare system are associated with similar safety to low risk hospital births

Having said that, baby high chair safety is very important - risks associated with high chairs include falling, cuts and bruises and entrapment.

Single embryo transfer reduces the odds of a high - risk multiple pregnancy, improving safety for both the mother and her baby.

There isn't data confirming the safety or lack of safety of bed - sharing multiples, but other studies have shown that bed - sharing with other children places an infant at higher risk of SIDS.

While everyone needs to practice sun safety, some people are at higher risk of developing skin cancer.

But even well - intentioned producers can make safety errors, especially when dealing with high - risk foods.

But women at high obstetric risk may find the task more difficult due to unwanted recommendations intended to improve their safety.

These items are at high risk of becoming lost and also serve as a distraction which creates safety issues.

A 2009 study conducted as part of Partners for Child Passenger Safety found that kids between 4 and 8 were 45 percent less likely to sustain moderate to serious injuries in crashes when they were restrained in high - back or backless booster seats to lap - and - shoulder seat belts alone — and this reduction in injury risk went up to 67 percent for kids in post-1998 car models.

Research on the comparative safety of different birth settings tends to exclude «high - risk» pregnancy; conventional wisdom states that women with «high - risk» pregnancies should plan a hospital birth because they are at higher risk of negative pregnancy outcomes.

There are also several stories of positive birth in a variety of circumstances, including hospital, twins, induction, «high risk» and more, plus thoughts and advice from professionals on everything from home birth safety to your rights in the birth room.

The finding that the risk of PPH was lower if a home birth was intended even when «high - risk» births were included in the model raises the question of whether it is necessary for all women with «high - risk» pregnancies to be advised to plan a hospital birth on the grounds of safety.

Most likely she will be considered a high risk pregnancy and will be monitored continuously throughout her pregnancy, both for hers and her baby's health and safety.

Health and safety — it should not heat the milk to a very high temperature as it not only takes away the nutritional value, but also risks injury and burns.

Poor quality toys are more likely to break or become damaged, and they present a much greater risk to your child's safety than a higher quality toy.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

«I can assure you I will never risk the safety and the security of one New York City citizen at any time at all — no matter who comes to my desk and no matter who tries to pander to get into higher elected office,» Concannon said.

«NASUWT research has shown time and time again that teachers are facing serious health and safety risks in schools as a result of high levels of stress, school buildings which are outdated and not fit for purpose, the presence of asbestos and excessive classroom temperatures.

The Department for Transport will be inviting proposals from local authorities responsible for the 50 highest risk roads identified by the Road Safety Foundation.

A Level 2 sex offender is a convict who is deemed to have a moderate risk of a repeat offense, while a Level 3 offender is considered high - risk and a threat to public safety.

Operators of ships not remaining within that area (other than for reasons purely related to safety of life at sea, weather, navigational safety or military instructions) should allow any of their seafarers to choose not to proceed to the high - risk zone by allowing any such seafarers to leave the ship (or not to join it) at a preceding port.

Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

The safety catch on the officer's gun had been uncocked, but this was in line with procedures for high - risk operations, the watchdog says.

The measures include the closure of high - risk fuel stations which is ongoing, the cessation of the construction of new fuel stations to allow for proper safety audit, and the implementation of the cylinder re-circulation policy expected to happen within a year.

Following additional scrutiny after Vioxx's withdrawal, and the addition of cardiovascular experts to the trial's data safety monitoring board, the DSMB concluded that patients taking a high dose of Celebrex had a 3.4-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks or strokes compared to those on placebo; those on a moderate dose had a 2.5-fold increase in risk.