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• Dead man's switch
  ...ower sold in the US since 1982 has an "operator-presence" device, which by law must stop the blades within 3 seconds after the user lets go of the control ...om being defeated by the above circumstances, and is a standard feature on British DSD systems.<ref>http://locodocs.co.uk/brmanuals/DSD-33056-4-Issue1.htm</re
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• Factories Act 1961
  ...ch not actionable in itself may be evidential towards a claim for [[common law]] [[negligence]]. In particular, a criminal conviction may be given in evid ...rthern Ireland) 1965''' which consolidated earlier Acts there. As with the British Act, as of 2008 most of the provisions have been repealed and superseded by
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• Manganese
  ...anese to iron made it harder, without making it any more brittle. In 1837, British academic [[James Couper]] noted an association between heavy exposures to m [[File:M1917helmet.jpg| thumb|right|British [[Brodie helmet]]]]
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• Asbestos
  | publisher =British Geological Survey ...th were afflicted with a sickness of the lungs.<ref>P. Brodeur, "Annals of Law, The Asbestos Industry on Trial, 1-A Failure to Warn", ''[[The New Yorker]]
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• PAT Testing
  ...turing process to ensure compliance with the relevant or corresponding BS (British Standard Code of Practice) for that type of appliance.{{Citation needed|dat British law (the [[Health and safety regulations in the United Kingdom|Electricity at W
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• Institute of Occupational Medicine
  ...erpinned the recommendations for more stringent airborne dust standards in British coalmines and the PFR was ultimately used as the basis for many national du ...5-166.</ref>. This work was awarded the prestigious Bedford Prize by the [[British Occupational Hygiene Society]].
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• Air safety
  ...yre-inadequate/ Hiding requirements = suspicion they're inadequate], Nolan Law Group, January 18, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.lightningtech.com/pdfs/A_PROP * [[British European Airways Flight 548]], June 18, 1972
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• Work–life balance
  There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States. At least 134 countries have American workers average approximately ten paid holidays per year while British workers average twenty-five holidays and German employees thirty. Americans
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• Hazard symbol
  * [[British Standard]] BS 5499: Graphical symbols and signs [[Category:European Union law]]
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...and controlling the risks".<ref>[http://www.bohs.org/standardTemplate.aspx British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS)]</ref> The International Occupational :[[British Occupational Hygiene Society]] (BOHS)
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• Ergonomics
  The coining of the term Ergonomics, however, is now widely attributed to British psychologist Hywel Murrell, at the 1949 meeting at the UK's [[Admiralty Hou * [[Rohmert's law]]
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• Occupational safety and health
  ...ay be reinforced in [[civil law (common law)|civil law]] and/or [[criminal law]]; it is accepted that without the extra "encouragement" of potential regul ‘The main influence on the Dutch law on the job of the safety professional is through the requirement on each em
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• Cadmium
  ...and its compounds may be toxic in certain forms and concentrations, the [[British Pharmaceutical Codex]] from 1907 states that [[cadmium iodide]] was used as ...|accessdate=2009-07-07|title=World Mineral Production 2002–06| publisher=British Geological Survey|chapter = Cadmium|page=15|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/3260
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• Mining
  ...been found in old Roman mines and some examples are now preserved in the [[British Museum]] and the [[National Museum of Wales]].<ref>[http://www.romans-in-br ...And Corporate Responsibility]. In: ''International and Comparative Mineral Law and Policy:
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• Electronic health record
  ...ogy |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=107 |year=2008 |month=Fall |url=http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v22/22HarvJLTech103.pdf|format=PDF}}</ref> | publisher = Northern Illinois University Law Review, Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2010
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• List of phobias
  * [[Xenophobia]] – fear/dislike of [[alien (law)|foreigners]]. *''Robophobia'' – a novel by [[Richard Evans (British author)|Richard Evans]]
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• Scientific phenomena named after people
  * [[Abney effect]], [[Abney's law of additivity]] — [[William de Wiveleslie Abney]] * [[Accot–Zhai steering law]] — [[Johnny Accot]] and [[Shumin Zhai]]
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...sity in 1979 with the opening of [[Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law|its law school]]. | Founded in 1818 by Ramsay, the British Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia
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• List of eponyms
  ...-Marie Ampère]] — [[ampere]] — unit of electric current, [[Ampère's law]] * [[Amedeo Avogadro]] — [[Avogadro's number]], [[Avogadro's Law]]
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• List of eponyms (L-Z)
  * [[Charles Lindbergh]], pilot — [[Lindbergh Law]] anti-kidnapping law * [[Charles Lynch (jurist)|Charles Lynch]] — [[lynching]], lynch law
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