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Jun 18, 2019 · The definition of a safety hazard must meet the scientific criterion of unambiguousness. The definition of what an object or substance is, or what object or substance constitutes a safety hazard, cannot allow, imply or provide for a double meaning. A safety hazard is a safety hazard, without the possibility of any argument about it.
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Current theory on safety hazards and the origin of safety...
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Jun 5, 2019 · Hazards. According to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), a hazard is a natural process or phenomenon that may pose negative impacts on the economy, society, and ecology, including both natural factors and human factors that are associated with the natural ones. Hazards are the origins of disasters.
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- 10.1007/978-981-13-6689-5_1
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- Disaster Risk Science. 2019 : 1-48.
Jul 22, 2020 · The need for hazard definitions. Lack of commonly shared definitions of hazards stands in the way of effective monitoring of disaster risk reduction efforts. Simon Cox explains how science, data and technology can help solve the problem. Date. 22.07.2020. (Based on an interview conducted in October 2019)
define the full range of hazards that are encompassed in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction; provide a scientific definition of all the hazards identified, drawing mostly on the internationally agreed UN definition and available scientific literature.
Sep 23, 2020 · for exposure, vulnerability and capacity, building on the UNGA de nitions. This is a much needed complementary exercise to the hazard de nition process, which is the subject. of this report ...
The “hiding” of hazards is at once purposeful and unintentional, life threatening and institution sustaining, systematic and incidental. We see five distinct aspects of hidden hazards—global elusive, marginal, ideological, amplified, and value threatening—associated with differing causal agents and processes.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.6836279. Abstract. Technological hazards are evaluated in terms of quantitatively expressed physical, biological, and social descriptors. For each hazard a profile is constructed that considerably extends the conventional definition of risk.
