However, rapid economic growth also brings to the workplace a variety of risks that threaten the health of workers. There are more than 770 million workers in China, and more than 200 million workers are exposed to occupational hazards [1, 2]. It has become a priority for China to meet ...
natural hazards and human civilization in ways that could threaten civilization collapse or worse. Although full quantification of these risks is beyond the scope of the paper, the paper does provide reason to believe that the risk from natural GCRs may be substantially larger than has previously ...
Understanding major climate risks, adaptation strategies, and factors influencing the choice of those strategies is crucial to reduce farmers’ vulnerability. Employing comprehensive data from 2822 farm households in Ethiopia and Kenya (East Africa; EA)
which can improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of food safety regulation and identify food safety risks at early stages. Food safety risk analysis is a systematic approach for analyzing chemical, biological, and physical hazards in food, including risk assessment, risk management, and risk comm...
Integrated environmental health impact assessment, therefore, involves analysing the impacts of the environmental capital and hazards within the context of these changing external forces. Likewise, impacts of change can feed back to affect these drivers – for example, by influencing social and ...
On the one hand, the safety goals can be used to guide the design, operation, and management of nuclear power plants, to establish a set of effective protection measures in nuclear power plants to protect personnel, society, and the environment from radioactive hazards. On the other hand, ...
Mostly, engineers have to learn this from experience and that learning process ought to include keeping up to date with publicised events describing things that have gone wrong. Certain hazards relate only to particular structures and a risk assessment should be appropriate. Risk assessments should ...
Prevalent combinations of hazards, exposure and risk are semi-quantitatively scored and ranked. Our results signpost three core topics posing a major risk to human health: (1) Open, uncontrolled burning and rudimentary incineration of medical waste by waste handlers who have to make difficult ...
The least amount of work in this area is devoted to the risks associated with production and the threat of wood dust. Less attention is paid to the risks that threaten human health and property in the process of biomass production itself for energy purposes. In part, this fact results from...
Public security incidents are initiated by specific groups and threaten social security and stability. Public security incidents that damage the personal safety and property safety of teachers and students will lead to corresponding risks, namely public security risks of PSS. Common forms of public secu...