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• Fallout shelter
  [[Image:fallout shelter.jpg|thumb|A sign pointing to an old fallout shelter in New York City.]] .... Many such shelters were constructed as [[civil defense]] measures during the Cold War.
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• Nuclear War Survival Skills
  ...on gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War, as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle living and internationa ...ell as encouraging optimism in the face of such a catastrophe by asserting the survivability of a nuclear war.
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• USS Holder (DE-401)
  |Ship caption=An image of the USS ''Holder'' (DE-401) being stripped as a parts hulk |Ship in service=
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  |Ship in service= ...[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submar
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  |Ship in service= ...[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submar
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  |Ship in service= ...[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submar
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  |Ship in service= ...s Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submar
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• Mark 13 torpedo
  ...with breakaway wooden nose and tail protection which is shed upon hitting the water.]] ...12.8|kn}} slower than the [[Mark 14 torpedo]]. 17,000 were produced during the war.{{Ref|Milford1}}
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  |caption= A Mark 14 torpedo on display at [[Fisherman's Wharf]] in [[San Francisco]] |origin= [[United States]]
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...such as the [[Armament of the Iowa class battleship|USS ''Iowa'']]. After the 1950s, GCFSs were integrated with missile [[fire-control system]]s and othe ...r television camera, a computer, stabilizing device or gyro, and equipment in a plotting room<ref name="NavOrdAndGunV2">{{cite book|title =NAVAL ORDNANCE
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• Type 93 torpedo
  {{redirect|Long Lance|the American Indian writer|Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance}} ...rom Point Cruz, [[Guadalcanal]], on display outside U.S. Navy headquarters in [[Washington, D.C.]], during [[World War II]].
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• Confined space
  In a wide variety of industrial environments workers may be expected to enter ...anding of the issues involved in entering and working in these spaces, and the management of potential hazards to ensure on-going worker health and safety
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• Chemical accident
  ...ubstance or substances hazardous to human health and/or the environment in the short or long term. Such events include [[Conflagration|fires]], [[explosio ...cidents in recorded history was the 1984 [[Bhopal disaster]] in [[India]], in which more than 3,000 people were killed after a highly toxic [[vapour]], (
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• Dry cleaning
  ...oethylene), abbreviated "perc" in the industry and "dry-cleaning fluid" by the public. It is often used instead of hand washing delicate fabrics, which ca ...n this manner, which became known as "nettoyage à sec," or "dry cleaning" in English.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://science.howstuffworks.com/dry-cleaning1.
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• Occupational fatality
  ...cupational deaths” or “work-related deaths/fatalities” and can occur in any [[industry]] or [[employment|occupation]]. ...till, in 2007, 5,488 people died in work-related incidents in the [[United States]]<ref>“Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary Report 2007.” http
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• Benzene
  ...thor= David R. Lide, ed.|title= "Physical Constants of Organic Compounds", in CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Internet Version 2005, <http://www.h ...ers.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=87|issue=1|pages=167–9|year=1990|pmid=2153285|pmc=53221
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• Beryllium
  ...|ɪ|l|i|əm}} {{respell|bə|RIL|ee-əm}}) is the [[chemical element]] with the symbol '''Be''' and [[atomic number]] 4. ...on, make it in many ways an ideal aerospace material, and it has been used in rocket nozzles and is a significant component of planned space telescopes.
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• Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day
  ...can Occupational Safety and Health Week]] (NAOSH). OSHP Day takes place on the Wednesday of NAOSH Week each year and is celebrated internationally. <ref n ...are harmful to people, property and the environment. <ref>"Career Guide to the Safety Profession,” ASSE Foundation and Board of Certified Safety Profess
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• Chlorine
  {{About|the chemical element|the bleach|Sodium hypochlorite|the upcoming film|Chlorine (film)}} ...rocarbons]] have been implicated in the [[ozone depletion|destruction]] of the [[ozone layer]].
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• Mining
  ...in [[Austria]]|Mining, Austria|the siege tactic|Mining (military)|name of the [[China|Chinese]] emperor|Daoguang Emperor}} ...ference and second deepest [[open-pit mining|open pit]] [[copper]] mine in the world.]]
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