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    Climate hazards can combine with other hazards and result in compound event losses (see also loss and damage). For example, the climate hazard of heat...
    40 KB (5,343 words) - 21:25, 17 July 2024
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    procedures of hazard identification and risk assessment, and it is part of their planning and operational responsibility. Both health and safety hazards must be...
    71 KB (8,760 words) - 18:03, 18 July 2024
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    disasters and natural hazards as follows: "Natural hazards and natural disasters are related but are not the same. A natural hazard is the threat of an...
    67 KB (9,507 words) - 12:30, 9 July 2024
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    Environmental hazards are those hazards that affect biomes or ecosystems. Well known examples include oil spills, water pollution, slash and burn deforestation...
    13 KB (1,877 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2024
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    occupational hazard is a hazard experienced in the workplace. This encompasses many types of hazards, including chemical hazards, biological hazards (biohazards)...
    20 KB (1,982 words) - 12:34, 8 April 2024
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    the hazard is unknown to those exposed, unobservable, delayed, novel or unknown to science. Number of people exposed. Hazards with high perceived risk are...
    85 KB (10,339 words) - 14:48, 19 July 2024
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    exposure to natural hazards to determine a ranking of countries around the world based on their natural disaster risk. The WorldRiskIndex (WRI), developed...
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    S2CID 199164028. Motarjemi, Y.; Ross, T (2014-01-01), "Risk Analysis: Risk Communication: Biological Hazards", in Motarjemi, Yasmine (ed.), Encyclopedia of Food...
    60 KB (7,833 words) - 18:37, 17 July 2024
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    developing countries in managing the interconnected risks of natural hazards and climate hazards. Between 2007 and 2022, GFDRR provided $890 million in...
    46 KB (5,937 words) - 12:49, 1 July 2024
  • In epidemiology, a risk factor or determinant is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection.: 38  Due to a lack of harmonization...
    12 KB (1,440 words) - 23:07, 15 July 2024
  • climate risk by addressing three interacting risk factors. These are hazards, vulnerability, and exposure. It is not possible to directly reduce hazards. This...
    31 KB (5,438 words) - 23:18, 10 June 2024
  • caissons. This article lists hazards that a diver may be exposed to during a dive, and possible consequences of these hazards, with some details of the proximate...
    107 KB (2,928 words) - 03:36, 25 June 2024
  • lead to more serious problems. There are also hazards of the specific diving environment, and hazards related to access to and egress from the water...
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    actions. An all-hazards approach to disaster management considers all known hazards and their natural and anthropogenic potential risks and impacts, with...
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  • In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate is multiplicative with respect to the hazard rate. For example,...
    34 KB (5,526 words) - 12:04, 27 June 2024
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    Ergonomic hazards are physical conditions that may pose a risk of injury to the musculoskeletal system due to poor ergonomics. These hazards include awkward...
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    from hazards in places where people live in exposed or vulnerable conditions. Some human failures make communities vulnerable to climate hazards. These...
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  • hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs of that risk....
    45 KB (5,565 words) - 00:39, 25 April 2024
  • models are generally classed proportional hazards regression models; the best known being the Cox proportional hazards model, and the exponential, Gompertz...
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  • Each hazard statement is designated a code, starting with the letter H and followed by three digits. Statements which correspond to related hazards are...
    28 KB (1,282 words) - 09:11, 23 June 2024
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