Sentences with phrase «other occupational risk»

«These lung function changes are comparable to the effects caused by other occupational risk factors, such as organic dusts in farming and cotton workers.

Not exact matches

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A lack of awareness of impaired mental performance could increase the risk of accidents and mistakes, which can be dangerous in many private and occupational situations, both for the sleep - deprived person as well as for others.

The Harvard study tracked 8111 adults for about 15 years in six cities and took account of smoking habits, level of obesity, occupational risks and other variables.

See S. Kirby, S. Naftel, and M. Berends, «Staffing At - Risk School Districts in Texas: Problems and Prospects,» Rand, 1999, MR -1083-EDU, 106 p. See also R. Henke and L. Zahn, «Attrition of New Teachers Among Recent College Graduates: Comparing Occupational Stability Among 1992 - 93 Graduates Who Taught and Those Who Worked in Other Occupations,» Postsecondary Education Descriptive Analysis Reports, U.S. Department of Education, March 2001, NCES -2001-189.

It is essential to address the health risks associated with urban agriculture to protect consumers from contaminated foods and farm workers from occupational hazards whilst reaping the benefits of urban agriculture for urban food security, nutrition and other benefits of urban agriculture for sustainable urban development

Occupational: Coal miners and construction workers have a significantly - higher risk of developing mesothelioma than other workers.

Notwithstanding the 2016 Supreme Court ruling (2016 SCC 25), demand for scientific certainty sets a high bar in cases of occupational cancer, the number one cause of workplace death, and other work - related disease — particularly «when only one per cent of the 100,000 chemicals used in the workplace have been thoroughly tested for health risks.»

While the role of risk used to reside with the in - house legal team or general counsel, who was the go - to person on anti-bribery or corruption questions, occupational health and safety, and other issues, rapidly that role is also moving right up the chain of command so in many companies it's the CEO, CFO, COO, and chief risk officer.

You have a high - risk profession such as logging, deep sea fisherman and other professions with high death / injury occupational statistics.

NRIs are charged on the same level as resident Indians, other factors (age, general health, occupational risk) remaining the same.

Depending on the company, the Occupational Classes range from 6A to Class 1A (with various nuances) to even Class N or B or 2 or whatever other letter or number that particular insurer decided to use to denote uninsurable risks.

Occupational fraud, theft, workplace violence — these and a host of other risks all tend to begin and end with people; temporary workers are no exception since often times these workers have the same access to employee assets as any traditional employee would.

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Similarly, 33 percent of daughters with divorced parents had a teen birth, compared with 37 percent of daughters born outside marriage (the corresponding figure for daughters with continuously married parents was 11 percent).9 Other studies that have compared offspring in these two groups yield similar results with respect to occupational attainment, earned income, depression, and the risk of seeing one's own marriage end in divorce.10

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.