Welfare, general

Executive Order 10831, Aug. 14, 1959, and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, General Program Policy, Part 10, Radiation Health Hearing of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy of Congress, Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards Their Basis and Use, p. 597, May 24, 1960. 

Greece Ministry of Employment and Social Protection Ministry of Health and Welfare General Directorate of Working Conditions and Health Centre of Occupational Health and Safety National Council for Health and Safety at Worlg National Health and Safety Institute Soma Epitheorisis Ergasiss (Joint State Technical Inspectors)... 

Aim to protect the health and safety of everyone m the workplace and ensure that adequate welfare facilities are provided. Covers e.g. general ventilation, temperature m indoor workplaces, lighting, cleanliness, space requirements, condition of floors and traffic routes, measures against falls/fallmg objects, washing facilities. 

Promotes the general welfare of the magnesium industry world-wide by collecting and disseminating information, by encouraging research and by publicizing innovative uses of the metal. 

A large portion of the cost of any manufactured item is represented by labor. Although labor rates are more and more becoming similar in most parts of the country, factors such as skill, labor relations, and the general welfare of the work force affect labor productivity and efficiency. Each region being considered for plant location must be suiveyed to determine the availability and the skills of the labor market. The skills need not exactly match with those... 

The calculation of indirect COI can be based on different methodologies, and there is no generally accepted standard for all circumstances. The most common approach to calculate the indirect costs of illness is the human capital method. The loss of welfare of a society in the form of nongenerated commodities and services mainly depends on the lost working hours. The method assumes that if a person had... 

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, "Smoking and Health". A Report of the Surgeon General, DHEW Publ. No. (PHS) 79-50066, 1979. 

General Inspectorate for Health Protection, Analytical Methods for Pesticide Residues in Foodstuffs, ed. P. van Zoonen, sixth edition, Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport, The Hague (1996). 

Consumers are also likely to be influenced in their choice of organic products by the knowledge that an increase in organic farming will improve the welfare of farm animals, and that pollution of the rivers and the countryside generally will diminish. 

In general, economic inefficiency in resource allocation would be the result of a divergence between private benefits or costs and social benefits or costs, i.e. the result of externalities. Private costs (or internal costs) are directly taken by the buyer. Private costs for a transport user would, for example, include expenses for wear and tear, energy cost of vehicle use, transport fares, taxes and charges, as well as welfare effects such as own time costs. 

As society advances, its values depend on what is produced and those sources of production. However, as the means to acquire products becomes easier, values turn inward to the general societal welfare and our environment. Uncontrolled fire can devastate our assets and production sources, and this relates to the societal costs of fire prevention and loss restoration. The effects of fire on people and the environment become social issues that depend on the political ideology and economics that prevail in the state. Thus, attention to fire prevention and control depend on its perceived damage potential and our social values in the state. While these issues have faced all cultures, perhaps the twentieth century ultimately provided the basis for addressing fire with proper science in the midst of significant social and technological advances, especially among the developed countries. 

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