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• Fever
  ...include [[interleukin-8]], [[tumor necrosis factor-α]], [[tumor necrosis factor-β]], [[macrophage inflammatory protein]]-α and macrophage inflammatory pr ...such as interleukin 1 (IL-1), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and the tumor necrosis factor-alpha. In other words, exogenous factors cause release of endogenous factor
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• Workplace violence
  ...iolence resulting from industrial disputes]], although this is not a major factor in most incidents. ...of the violence we will be better able to eliminate, reduce or manage the risk of it occurring. There are four main types of work related violence:
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• Hearing conservation program
  ...hted reduction, one must subtract 7 db. OSHA also recommends a 50% safety factor, therefore the final OSHA recommended reduction would be (NRR-7)/2.<ref>CPL ...properly trained on how to follow a hearing conservation program, then the risk of noise-induced hearing loss is reduced. OSHA requires said training to b
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• Industrial noise
  ...(dB), known as an [[exposure action value]]), but it also acts as a causal factor for [[stress (medicine)|stress]] and raises systolic [[blood pressure]]. Additionally, it can be a causal factor in [[work accident]]s, both by masking hazards and warning signals, and by
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• Job Safety Analysis
  ...d Analysis and Risk Assessment. The purpose of a JSA is to ensure that the risk of each step of a task is reduced to ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicabl Some type of risk analysis should be performed before every job. Some tasks are routine and t
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• Laser safety
  ...safety''' is safe design, use and implementation of lasers to minimise the risk of [[laser]] accidents, especially those involving eye injuries. Since even ...ause they can burn the retina of the eye, or even the skin. To control the risk of injury, various specifications, for example ANSI Z136 in the US and IEC
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• Safety climate
  As part of overall risk and safety management, employers often include components designed to creat ...an be objectively monitored as a predicitive indicator of potential safety risk. These components include: situational, behavioural, and psychological aspe
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• Cancer
  Cancer affects people at all ages with the risk for most types increasing with age.<ref name="Cancer Research UK">{{cite we ...Chesson A, ''et al.'' |title=European Consensus Statement on Lung Cancer: risk factors and prevention. Lung Cancer Panel |journal=CA: a cancer journal for
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• Air safety
  ...100 passengers, then the passenger miles are 100 times higher, making the risk 100 times lower. The number of deaths per passenger mile on commercial airl ...st were discovered before they caused a catastrophic failure. Delamination risk is as old as composite material. Even in the 1940s, several [[Yakovlev Yak-
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• Occupational safety and health
  ...laws governing asbestos and fire safety management embrace the concept of risk assessment. *A [[risk]] is a combination of the probability that a particular outcome will occur
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• Arsenic
  ...|first4=S.|issue=10}}</ref> Studies investigating arsenic as an epigenetic factor will help in developing precise biomarkers of exposure and susceptibility. ...A. |last4=Chen |first4=R. |last5=Feinleib |first5=M. |title=Arsenic cancer risk confounder in southwest Taiwan data set.}}</ref> suggested that significant
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• Cadmium
  ...10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01453.x|title = Cadmium blocks hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1-mediated response to hypoxia by stimulating the proteasome-dependen ...d sufficient iron and other mineral levels. Thus, while cadmium is a major factor in the Itai Itai disease in Japan, most researchers have concluded that it
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• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  *Protecting persons, other than persons at work, against [[risk]]s to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities ..., so far as is '''reasonably practicable''', [[safety|safe]] and without [[risk]]s to [[health]];
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• Wildfire
  ...nd regional weather patterns such as high-pressure ridges can increase the risk and alter the behavior of wildfires dramatically.<ref> ...by fires. Because they are highly flammable, they can increase the future risk of fire, creating a [[positive feedback loop]] that increases fire frequenc
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• Lead poisoning
  ...er ones; thus children in older housing with chipping paint are at greater risk. Prevention of lead exposure can range from individual efforts (e.g. remo ...g with heavy machinery in the background.|Battery recycling workers are at risk for lead exposure.<ref name="Brodkin07-CMAJ">{{Cite pmid|17200393 }}</ref>
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• Mining
  ...g for minerals and precious metals, along with [[ranching]], was a driving factor in the [[Westward Expansion]] to the Pacific coast. With the exploration of ...ublications/papers/2001/pdf/Weber-Fahr(T-8).pdf Mining, Sustainability and Risk:World Bank Group Experiences].</ref> Between 1955 and 1990 it provided abou
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• Fire Safety Journal
  ...s), people/fire interactions (physical, physiological, and psychological), risk, management, legislation, and education.<ref>[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/f .../ref> According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', its 2009 [[impact factor]] is 1.259.
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• John Howard (public health administrator)
  ...enges used to be those that normally would have had a very widespread risk factor associated with them - chemical agents and physical agents like [[asbestos]
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• Partition coefficient
  ...hemicals in general have longer half lives and therefore display increased risk of adverse environmental impact. In [[metallurgy]], the partition coefficient is an important factor in determining how different impurities are distributed between molten and
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• Partial pressure
  ...librium shift. In some cases, the reaction kinetics may be the over-riding factor to consider. ...absolute and of 210 minutes at 1.2 bar absolute. Oxygen toxicity becomes a risk when these oxygen partial pressures and exposures are exceeded. The partial
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