Active living working

Overall, the chance of being exposed to hantavirus is greatest when people work, play or live in closed spaces where rodents are actively living. However, recent research results show that many people who have become ill with HPS got the disease after having been in frequent contact with rodents and/or their droppings for some time. In addition, many people who have become ill reported that they had not seen rodents or their droppings—at all. Therefore, if you live in an area where tlie carrier rodents such as the deer mouse are known to live, take sensible precautions before you do activities like those described above—even if you don t see any rodents or their droppings. 

Many of the products we enjoy every day are derived from polymers even though we may not readily appreciate this. Polymers influence the way we live, work, and play. The evidence is all around us. There is no room in our house, no vehicle we ride in, no sports activity we participate in that does not use products made from polymers the list of polymer products is virtually endless. In fact, the products are so diverse, so prevalent, and so ingrained in our lifestyles that we tend to take them for granted. 

To assist in determining the possible affects of insufficient or imbalanced amounts of the variable on a person s performance of activities of daily living, work, sport, and leisure pursuits. In this case the amount of the variable is compared to the demands of the task, rather than to norms or to the... 

In the context of this book, this would include work activities such as live working and the isolation of high voltage systems. 

Section 1.1.6 provides an important reminder about the need to ensure that people who carry out inspection and testing activity must be eompetent to do the work. Not all electricians or tradesmen have these eompetendes, particularly where live working is involved, so care must be exercised when deciding who will do the work. 

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