Sentences with phrase «potential health or safety»

Assessed the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals» home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.

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More immediately, there are a number of steps that a proactive employer can take, including putting together a comprehensive safety and health program, conducting regular safety and health audits and / or risk assessments, ensuring that employees are properly trained relative to their roles and responsibilities, and taking prompt action to respond to and address incidents (whether an accident or a near miss) by correcting any potential hazards, as well as issuing discipline if it has been determined that an employee or manager violated company safety rules.

Collectively, the data presented in these application submissions have not identified potential health and safety concerns, and support the conclusion that food and / or livestock animal feed derived from provitamin A biofortified GR2E rice is as safe and nutritious as food or feed derived from conventional rice varieties.

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, — , 1OR 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, — , 1or 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, — , 1or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 1or armchair.162, — , 165

In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines — flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash — both pose potential safety and health hazards.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

The Mine Safety and Health Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also lack any formal mechanisms for identifying potential conflicts of interest or for assessing the level of industry influence over the research.

[102] Together with public and private research groups, these agencies construct databases on supplement properties, perform research on quality, safety, and population trends of supplement use, and evaluate the potential clinical efficacy of supplements for maintaining health or lowering disease risk.

Factors and conditions that influence the quality of the physical environment include the school building and the area surrounding it; transportation services; any biological or chemical agents inside and outside the school facilities that are detrimental to health; and physical conditions such as temperature, noise, lighting, air quality and potential health and safety hazards.

Substance Abuse / Chemical Dependency: The consumption of alcohol or other chemical agents at dosages that place a person's social, economic, psychological and physical welfare in potential hazard, or endangers public health, morals, safety or welfare, or a combination of these.

Building a bird cage involves dealing with woods, metals, and many other materials that can be difficult for beginners to work with... MORE Even a cage that «looks right» once it is put together can have design flaws or other hidden issues that could pose a potential hazard to your bird's health or safety.

«Dangerous goods» are materials or items with hazardous properties which, if not properly controlled, present a potential hazard to human health and safety, infrastructure and / or their means of transport.

9 Classes of Dangerous Goods «Dangerous goods» are materials or items with hazardous properties which, if not properly controlled, present a potential hazard to human health and safety, infrastructure and / or their means of transport.

Therefore, any employer of night shift workers should immediately ensure that they are complying with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations and the HSE Good Practice Guidelines by: (i) explaining and warning night shift workers of the potential risk; (ii) risk assessing and / or reviewing all risk assessments for shift workers; (iii) providing medical surveillance; (iv) considering possible alternatives for employees who have worked night shifts for a considerable period of time.

(a) New Reportable Incident — Structural Inadequacy: As of December 14, 2017, an employer must notify the Ministry of Labour (MOL) if a joint health and safety committee or a health and safety representative identifies potential structural inadequacies of a workplace as a source of danger or a hazard to workers.

Bill 177 also amended the OHSA to include a new specific duty for employers to notify the Ministry of Labour if the joint health and safety committee or representative, as applicable, has identified potential structural inadequacies of a building, structure, or any part thereof, or any other part of a workplace, whether temporary or permanent, as a source of danger or hazard to workers.

Other examples of premises owners» failures include violations of health and safety codes, failures to warn visitors about any potential dangers, and any other negligent or careless acts.

If their home or portions of their home are not properly maintained, this is likely going to be seen as a potential violation of the Occupational Health & Safety Act for which you as the employer are responsible, regardless of whether the employee is negligent.

Can this worker be retrained for other similar roles that would alleviate potential health and safety and / or accommodation issues?

Much later, the Occupational Health and Safety Division issued a Notice of an Administrative Penalty to Guild alleging «that Guild had violated s. 23 (1) of the General Regulations which provides that an employer shall, when required, provide an emergency eye wash fountain where there is a potential for a person's skin or eyes to be affected by exposure to a hazardous substance.

Substance Abuse / Chemical Dependency: The consumption of alcohol or other chemical agents at dosages that place a person's social, economic, psychological and physical welfare in potential hazard, or endangers public health, morals, safety or welfare, or a combination of these.

And fast repairs — especially if the damage creates a potential safety or health issue — can reduce your exposure to potential lawsuits or threats of non-payment.

• In what way will the unregulated practice clearly endanger the health, safety, and welfare of the public, and is the potential for harm easily recognizable and not remote or dependent on tenuous argument?

Salem Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program: Salem Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program is a program that provides assistance for moderate rehabilitation projects to eliminate existing or potential health and safety hazards, to carry out handicapped access improvements, and to undertake historic preservation.