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Health risk and impact evaluation for recycling of radioactive scrap metal
Nieves, L.A.; Chen, S.Y.; Murphie, W.E.; Lilly, M.J. III - 2008
The DoE, Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, is participating with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in providing analytical support for developing international standards for recycling of radioactive scrap metals. For this purpose, Argonne National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435499
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Programmatic risk management system
Mahn, J.; Wood, C.L. - 2009
The purpose of the Programmatic Risk Management System (PRMS) is to evaluate and manage potential risks associated with proposed projects (i.e., new products or processes, or possible research and technological development projects). Although the PRMS considers some technical aspects of risk,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436437
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The cost of human error intervention
Bennett, C.T.; Banks, W.W.; Jones, E.D. - 2008
DOE has directed that cost-benefit analyses be conducted as part of the review process for all new DOE orders. This new policy will have the effect of ensuring that DOE analysts can justify the implementation costs of the orders that they develop. We would like to argue that a cost-benefit...
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
This areport explores the implications of an index-of-harm methodology that compares occupational risks among workers exposed to radiological and nonradiological harms. It extends the work of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) by considering American rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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HAMMER FY 1996 Multi-Year Program Plan: WBS {number_sign}8.2
2009
The Hazardous Material Management and Emergency Response Training and Education Center -- known simply as HAMMER -- is being developed to assist the US Department of Energy (DOE) and others dedicated to improving worker health, safety and productivity. HAMMER is a training and education program...
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Accounting for uncertainty in systematic bias in exposure estimates used in relative risk regression
Gilbert, E.S. - 2009
In many epidemiologic studies addressing exposure-response relationships, sources of error that lead to systematic bias in exposure measurements are known to be present, but there is uncertainty in the magnitude and nature of the bias. Two approaches that allow this uncertainty to be reflected...
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The Impact of Safety Climate on Safety Performance in a Gold Mining Company in Ghana
Ismail, Umar-Faruk Froko - 2015
The study investigated the influence of safety climate on safety performance among employees in a multi-national gold mining company in Ghana. Safety climate was conceptualized and measured in terms of employee perceptions of management value for safety, supervisor safety practices, safety...
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Trade Unions and Occupational Health and Safety
Donado Gomez, Alejandro - 2011
-country world consisting of the capital-rich "North" and the capital-poor "South". The North has trade unions that set high OHS … Aufsatz erweitert das Modell um eine Zwei-Länder-Welt bestehend aus dem kapitalreichen "Norden" und dem kapitalarmen "Süden … sie einer Ge-werkschaft beitreten. Daher scheint ein starker Moral-Hazard-Effekt die Lösung des Rätsels zu sein. Dieses …
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Accounting for variations in trade union effectiveness : state labor relations in East Central Europe
Avdagic, Sabina - 2003
This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466396
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Bedingungen internationaler Gewerkschaftskooperation in Thailand : das Verbindende und Trennende zwischen den Kulturen
Chrobot, Stefan - 2001
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