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• Depleted uranium
  ...rs |accessdate= |author= |date= |year= |publisher= UN |pages= }}</ref> In the past, DU has been called '''Q-metal''', '''depletalloy''', and '''D-38' ...>]]. Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical [[radiation therapy]] and industrial [[radiography]] equipment, and
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• Textiles of Mexico
  [[File:RuginProgressTeotitlan.JPG|thumb|300px|Rug in progress in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca]] ...es also changed radically. Fabric was produced exclusively in workshops or in the home until the era of [[Porfirio Díaz]] (1880s to 1910), when the mech
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• Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate
  ...ansferred to the [[Office of Rail Regulation]] and finally ceased to exist in May 2009 when it was renamed the Safety Directorate. ...accident inscription.jpg|thumb|left|Memorial to railway accident of 1845, in [[Ely Cathedral]]]]
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• Health and Safety Commission
  established=1974| disestablished=1 April 2008|
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• Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland
  ...=Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland | year=2006 | accessdate=2008-04-18 }}</ref> ...riginal_text.doc SI 1978/1039 (NI 9)]</ref> It was renamed '''Executive''' in 1998.<ref>Health and Safety at Work (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 19
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• Laser safety
  ...control the risk of injury, various specifications, for example ANSI Z136 in the US and IEC 60825 internationally, define "classes" of laser depending o ...action of a second, faster than the blink of an eye. Sufficiently powerful in the visible to near infrared laser radiation (400-1400 [[1 E-9 m|nm]]) will
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• Safety climate
  {{Wikify|date=October 2008}} ...Traditionally, ‘lagging indicators’ have been used to identify trends in accidents that are occurring within the workplace. Lagging indicators inclu
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• Cancer
  ...cent tissues), and sometimes ''[[metastasis]]'' (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers d ...p://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1633064920071217 | accessdate =2008-08-07 }}</ref>
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• Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  {{Orphan|date=May 2008}} ...ent workplace injuries, illnesses and [[occupational fatality|fatalities]] in [[Michigan]] by: setting and enforcing [[occupational safety and health]]
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• Air safety
  {{Refimprove|date=July 2008}} ...ailures through regulation, education and training. It can also be applied in the context of campaigns that inform the public as to the safety of [[air t
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• Examinetics
  ...ata management services in the United States. The company was established in 2004 following the consolidation of a number of small businesses providing ...ing services to US industrial and governmental companies and organizations in over 8,000 locations across the US.
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• Radiation dose reconstruction
  ...onment to which individuals have been exposed using available information. In cases where radiation exposures can not be fully characterized based on ava ...ions are often based on the standards published by international consensus organizations such as the [[International Commission on Radiological Protection]]<ref nam
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...f anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling [[health]] hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and ...s and refers to "[[Employment|Work]]", "[[Workplace]]" and "Place of Work" in general. ''Environmental Hygiene'' addresses similar issues to ''Occupatio
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• Ergonomics
  {{refimprove|talk=y|date=July 2008}} ...l ''Integrated Safety Management: Ergonomics'']. Website. Retrieved 9 July 2008.</ref>
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• Emergency management
  ...anizational level after the current level's resources have been exhausted. In the private sector, emergency management is sometimes referred to as [[busi ...Reduction|disaster risk reduction]], particularly for emergency management in a development management context. This focuses on the mitigation and prepar
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• Employee assistance programs
  {{Unreferenced|date=September 2008}} ...Ps) are [[employee benefit]] programs offered by many employers, typically in conjunction with a [[health insurance]] plan. EAPs are intended to help e
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• British Columbia Safety Council
  ...afety education and awareness throughout [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. In October, 2009 it went into bankruptcy, halting all business. ...sh Columbia Safety Council's mission was to assist the Province's citizens in preventing injuries arising from work, travel, home or leisure activities t
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• Health and Safety Executive
  |established=1974 ...utive) Order 2008, [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20080960_en_1 SI 2008/960]</ref>
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• Health Level 7
  ...''' ('''HL7'''), is an all-volunteer, [[non-profit organization]] involved in development of international [[healthcare]] standards.<ref name=about>{{cit ...elivery, and evaluation of [[health service]]s, are the most commonly used in the world.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}}
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• Committee on Data for Science and Technology
  ...ittee on Data for Science and Technology''' ('''CODATA''') was established in 1966 as an interdisciplinary committee of the ''[[International Council for ...CODATA set was published in 1973, later in 1986, 1998, 2002 and the fifth in 2006.
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