Risk in general

Some data on the risk levels of interest cannot be omitted from a book on nuclear safety. 

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Professor Richard Wilson of Harvard University and an associate, Edmund Crouch, among others, have devoted considerable effort to collecting and analyzing risk information on activities commonly engaged in and exposures commonly incurred. This type of information can be used effectively to both educate the public about risk in general and to assist risk managers efforts to explain specific risk decisions. 

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If the area of exposure is external to but includes walls or buildings that are resistant to fire or explosion or both, the building may not be at risk. In general, the risk of explosion may exist when a significant quantity of material is being processed above its flash point. 

Measures of Radiation-Induced Responses. This Section discusses the measures of response from radiation exposure generally used in radiation protection and assessments of radiation risk in general terms. 

Until recently, fatalities (especially latent cancer fatalities) was the only measure of stochastic response used in radiation protection and assessments of radiation risks in general terms (ICRP, 1977 NCRP, 1987a). No consideration was given to radiation-induced non-fatal stochastic responses or to the relative severity of different types of fatal responses (e.g., the expected length of life lost per fatality). 

In a letter to the acting commissioner of the FDA in 2006, U.S. senator Charles E. Grassley, head of the Senate Finance Committee, expressed concern about new data highlighting psychiatric and cardiovascular risks associated with stimulant drugs for the treatment of ADHD and about the lack of assessment of long-term risks in general for these drugs. 

Large variance signifies large risk relatively small variance indicates relatively small risk. In general, everything else being equal, risk is to be minimized. 

When an employer decides to what extent investments will be made in making jobs safer and healthier, it is usually the case that hundreds or thousands of workers are affected at once. Most workplace hazards, such as the use of toxic chemicals or the pace and physical demands of production, are shopwide if some workers are to be exposed, then so must the others. This would not present a problem if all workers really did have the same preferences, since the solution embodied in equation (3) would apply to each worker equally. But workers are not all the same they have different attitudes toward risk in general, and even different attitudes toward particular types of risks. The optimum wage-plus-safety... 

When the activity is carried out in a lesson the risks involved can be discussed with the pupils and their responses used to help them understand why, for safety reasons, it is important to follow a particular procedure and the measures that can be taken to control risk. Such discussions, ways to keep safe, as part of a lesson will also help to develop pupils life skills and understanding of risks in general. Pupils ideas can also be used each time a lesson focusing on safety awareness is taught. Discussions could focus on ... 

Identification of various risks in general, highlighted in DPR and their allocation and preparedness with regard to manpower, material and equipment should be made part of contract document under special conditions. 

Risk in general is a term attributable to future loss, and risk management is attributed to the process and resources utilised in order to control the loss (Haimowitz and Key 2002). Hence, the more relevant issue is to ascertain whether the future predictable losses are controllable. In order to predict the losses and reduce the uncertainty it is necessary to be able to look into the future based upon... 

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