Defining Hazards

Information Hazards

Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked. They can, however, be important. This paper surveys the terrain and proposes a taxonomy.

Environmental hazards

Obstetric problems This is the most widely recognised environmental hazard of anaesthesia but individual opinions, as well as governmental and professional reactions, differ widely. Some feel that not enough is being done about the problem while others maintain either that there is no problem and that much research and finance has been misdirected, or that scavenging devices introduce an unacce...

Transportation hazards

9th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms. Session III: Identifying and defining hazards and potential consequences II.

This session examined how effects of GM plants can be distinguished from those of non-GM comparators, how these differences can be measured, and how effects on non-targets and on plant fitness can be assessed. This review focuses on issues concerning plant fitness and invasiveness, and explores how the consequences of changes can be evaluated in terms of their environmental impact for risk asse...

Defining disability – Re-defining policy

Introduction: In 2002, an EC study reported that different European countries define disability differently, and this is one of the primary reasons why no common Europe-wide policies on disability exist. The EU-MHADIE project was funded with the aim of producing recommendations and guidelines for future common disability policies. The WHO’s ICF classification and its bio-psycho-social model of ...