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Hazard

Hazard

Hazards
Hazardous
Hazardousness

Broader

Certainty-Uncertainty

Problem

Volcanic eruptions

Unsafe hazardous waste disposal

Unsafe genetically modified food

Unforeseen environmental crises

Toxic waste smuggling

Radioactive contamination

Polychlorinated biphenyls as a health hazard

Occupational hazards of benzene

Intensive farming

Health risks of alcohol consumption

Health hazards of exposure to noise

Health hazards of environmental electromagnetism

Health effects of tobacco smoking

Hazards from comets

Hazardous remnants of war

Environmental health hazards to children

Environmental hazards of solar radiation

Environmental hazards of pesticides

Environmental hazards of industrialization

Environmental hazards of exotic species introduction

Environmental hazards of empolderment of wetlands

Environmental hazards from transport systems

Environmental hazards from textile and clothing industries

Environmental hazards from metals

Dangers of using mobile telephones

Carcinogenic chemical and physical agents

Antimony as a health hazard

Aerosols as industrial hazards

Wrecks and derelicts as hazards

Wind shear as a hazard

Water-related hazards and dangers

Vulnerability of crops to weather

Vibrations as a health hazard

Unsafe design of consumer products

Unreliability of computer software

Uncertain toxicity thresholds

Transport of dangerous goods

Transport and storage of hazardous radioactive material

Toxic substances in the home

Toxic metal pollutants

Threatened urban trees

Suppression of information concerning environmental safety

Sulphur dioxide as a pollutant

Solvents as an occupational hazard

Shift work stress as an occupational hazard

Risks in power production

PVC as an environmental hazard

Photosensitive epilepsy

Pesticide hazards to wildlife

Occupational risks and hazards of the medical profession

Occupational hazards to workers in small industries

Occupational hazards of male workers

Occupational hazards of female workers

Occupational hazards

Negative effects of maternity

Natural hazards to aircraft

Mutagenic effects of drugs

Microwave radiation as a health hazard

Meteors as hazards

Manganese as a health hazard

Lead as a health hazard at work

Irresponsible genetic manipulation

Insensitivity to non-immediate hazards to society

Ineffective emergency relief distribution

Indiscriminate economic development

Increase in atmospheric concentration of methane

Inadequate safeguards against fire

Inadequate protection from cold weather

Improper lighting as an occupational hazard

Illicit discharge of dangerous substances

Hydrogen sulphide as a pollutant

Heat stress at work

Health risks to workers in agricultural and livestock production

Health hazards to tourists

Health hazards of uranium

Health hazards of smoking for women

Health hazards of radiation in aircraft

Health hazards of plastics

Health hazards of oral contraceptives

Health hazards of mining radioactive substances

Health hazards of irradiated food

Health hazards of environmental pollution

Health hazards of computer monitor screens

Health hazards of asbestos

Health hazards of artificial birth control

Health hazards of aluminium

Health hazards of air pollution for children

Health hazards in the mining industry

Health hazards from meat and meat preparations

Health hazards from fish, crustacea and molluscs

Health hazards from dairy products and eggs

Hazards to young people at work

Hazards to plants

Hazards to human health in the natural environment

Hazards of cosmetic use

Hazards of biotechnology

Hazards from live animals

Hazardous wastes

Hazardous medical use of silicon gel

Hazardous locations for nuclear power plants

Hazardous glaciers

Hazardous geo-engineering

Hazardous aquatic animals

Harmful biological effects of ionizing radiation

Geological hazards

Fireworks as a hazard

Export of hazardous industries

Excessive work-related travel

Environmental impacts of shipping

Environmental impacts of petroleum industry

Environmental impacts of coal mining

Environmental impacts from mining

Environmental hazards of sugar production

Environmental hazards of pharmaceutical products

Environmental hazards of nuclear weapons industry

Environmental hazards of nuclear power production

Environmental hazards of furniture and fixtures manufacture

Environmental hazards of decommissioned nuclear power plants

Environmental hazards of cotton production

Environmental hazards of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices production

Environmental hazards of coal energy

Environmental hazards of chlorine-bleached paper products

Environmental hazards from tobacco and tobacco manufactures

Environmental hazards from timber industries

Environmental hazards from the construction industry

Environmental hazards from rice production

Environmental hazards from plastic materials

Environmental hazards from petroleum

Environmental hazards from paper and printing industries

Environmental hazards from mineral exploitation of seabed resources

Environmental hazards from logging

Environmental hazards from hydropower

Environmental hazards from fishing industry

Environmental hazards from electromagnetic pulses

Environmental hazards from coal conversion plants

Environmental hazards from chemicals

Environmental hazards from agricultural and pastoral activities

Environmental hazards constraining scientific research

Environmental hazard from leather manufacturers

Environmental degradation by road traffic

Electronic waste

Dust as an occupational hazard

Disease risks of tropical travel

Dangerous substances

Dangerous sporting activity

Dangerous countries

Conflicting standards for protection against chemical occupational hazards

Combined stresses as occupational hazards

Cold as an occupational hazard

Circumcision as a health hazard

Chlorofluorocarbons as an environmental hazard

Carbon monoxide as a health hazard

Bureaucratic inaction

Biological agents as occupational hazards

Beryllium as a health hazard

Wildlife pollution hazard

Unethical practice of the life sciences

Unethical practice of geological sciences

Unethical practice of anthropology

Travel health hazards

Susceptibility of the impoverished to drug trafficking

Radio frequencies as a health hazards

Occupational hazards of vegetable dusts

Occupational hazards of painters

Occupational hazards in commerce and offices

Mined international waterways as shipping hazards

Meteorites as hazards

Lack of international policy on specific issues

Inadequately cooked foods

Health hazards of unpasteurized milk

Health hazards of unpasteurized juices

Health hazards of modern insulating materials

Health hazards of kneeling

Health hazards of cassava

Health hazards of aniline dyes

Health hazards in the metals industries

Health hazards from fruit and vegetables

Health hazards from food and drink

Health hazards from cereals and cereal preparations

Hazards to human health

Hazards of being a black motorist

Hazardous school laboratories

Environmental hazards of vibration

Environmental hazards of rubber manufactures

Environmental hazards of metal manufactures

Environmental hazards of footwear manufacture

Environmental hazards of artificial resins

Environmental hazards from petroleum refineries

Environmental hazards from chemicals and petrochemicals industries

Dependence on taking pilgrimage

Aldehydes as health hazards

Strategy

Advancing environmental health

Strengthening capacity to control communicable diseases

Researching exposure to environmental hazards

Researching child exposure to environmental hazards

Reducing health risks from environmental pollution

Reducing environmental risk of cancer

Providing financial assistance for hazardous waste emergencies

Providing education on hazardous waste management in government and industry

Providing education materials on effects of hazardous waste

Protecting against human health hazards in chemical-intensive agriculture

Protecting against health hazards of motherhood

Protecting against health hazards from food and drink

Protecting against health hazards from fish, crustacea and molluscs

Protecting against environmental hazards from logging

Protecting against environmental hazards from chemicals

Preventing child exposure to environmental hazards

Preparing health criteria on hazardous waste prevention

Monitoring illegal traffic in hazardous waste at the regional level

Monitoring exposure to hazardous environmental pollutants

Making industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste

Linking environmental hazards to childhood asthma

Improving hazardous waste management programmes to meet health and environment norms

Improving hazardous waste management

Harmonizing transport of dangerous goods

Expanding knowledge resources on health implications of hazardous wastes

Evaluating cognitive effects of environmental health hazards

Dumping hazardous wastes

Developing conventions on transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Complying with international guidelines in hazardous waste agreements

Assessing health and environmental risks of hazardous waste

Assessing financing to reduce health risks from environmental pollution and hazards

Adopting laws to prevent the illegal export or import of hazardous waste

Using careful fishing methods

Urging industry to publish information on their management of hazardous waste

Taking measures for environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in developing countries

Suppressing information concerning environmental hazards

Supporting national programmes to monitor and control hazardous wastes

Studying hazards to female workers

Strengthening research centres on hazardous waste management

Strengthening cradle-to-grave environmental impact assessment of hazardous waste

Strengthening cooperation on monitoring effects of hazardous waste management

Storing hazardous wastes

Standardizing hazard communication terminology

Setting up tracking systems for movements of hazardous waste

Setting up information systems to detect illegal traffic in hazardous waste

Separating components of urban solid waste

Researching management of hazardous waste

Researching crop hazards

Reporting social hazards

Reporting hazards to soils

Reporting hazards to minority cultures

Reporting hazards to ecological systems

Reporting groundwater pollution hazards

Reducing toxic risk

Reducing pollution hazards of industrial research

Reducing occupational risks and hazards of the medical profession

Reducing occupational risk in the mining industry

Reducing impact of natural disasters

Reducing environmental degradation by automobiles

Reducing amount of hazardous waste for disposal

Redirecting development to less hazard prone areas

Receiving dangerous cargo

Reaching consensus on environmental hazards

Publishing information on companies which generate hazardous waste

Publicizing health

Providing public information on hazardous waste issues

Protesting industrial pollution

Protecting island populations

Protecting against water-related hazards and dangers

Protecting against travel health hazards

Protecting against toxic metals as health hazards

Protecting against road hazards

Protecting against railway environmental hazards

Protecting against pesticide hazards to wildlife

Protecting against occupational risks and hazards

Protecting against natural hazards to aircraft

Protecting against natural gas production environmental hazards

Protecting against meteors as hazards

Protecting against meteorites as hazards

Protecting against health hazards of radioisotopes

Protecting against health hazards in the metals industries

Protecting against health hazards

Protecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment

Protecting against hazards to human health

Protecting against hazards of biotechnology

Protecting against hazards of agricultural chemicals

Protecting against hazards in daily life

Protecting against hazards from comets

Protecting against hazardous travel

Protecting against hazardous siting of dwellings

Protecting against hazardous rental accommodation

Protecting against hazardous remnants of war

Protecting against hazardous products

Protecting against hazardous geo-engineering

Protecting against hazardous combinations of substances

Protecting against geological hazards

Protecting against fire hazards

Protecting against environmental hazards of pharmaceutical products

Protecting against environmental hazards of new species introduction

Protecting against environmental hazards of empolderment of wetlands

Protecting against environmental hazards from transport systems

Protecting against environmental hazards from textile and clothing industries

Protecting against environmental hazards from paper and printing industries

Protecting against environmental hazards from mines

Protecting against environmental hazards from meat production

Protecting against environmental hazards from manufacturing industries

Protecting against environmental hazards from industry

Protecting against environmental hazards from food processing industries

Protecting against environmental hazards from field crop production

Protecting against environmental hazards from energy industries

Protecting against environmental hazards from chemicals and petrochemicals industries

Protecting against environmental hazards from animals

Protecting against environmental hazards from agricultural and pastoral activities

Protecting against environmental hazards due to economic development

Prohibiting dumping of hazardous wastes

Producing environmentally sound computing equipment

Preventing production of hazardous wastes

Preventing natural hazards

Preventing illegal international traffic in hazardous wastes

Preventing exposure to environmental hazards

Preparing inventories in developing countries on hazardous waste production

Preparing guidelines on the design of potentially hazardous activities

Preaching religion

Notifying hazards of strong toxic substances

Monitoring exposure to hazards

Monitoring compliance violations of hazardous waste export/import laws

Monitoring adverse effects of hazardous wastes

Mitigating volcanic disasters

Mitigating geological hazards

Linking environmental hazards to endocrine disruption

Linking environmental hazards to childhood neurodevelopment

Linking environmental hazards to childhood cancer

Involving local communities in contingency planning on environmental hazards

Investigating potentially hazardous products wastes

Informing local communities about hazardous installations

Informing about womens health hazards

Informing about hazardous weather

Increasing support for hazardous waste research in developing countries

Increasing research on cost-effective alternatives for hazardous processes

Increasing public participation in hazardous waste management

Increasing international cooperation centres on hazardous waste management

Improving training on prevention and control of hazardous waste health risks

Improving hazardous waste institutions

Improving coordination of policy on hazardous waste

Improving capacity to assess hazardous waste risks

Improving capacities to monitor the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes

Implementing international conventions on hazardous waste

Identifying hazards and dangers

Identifying environmental hazards

Identifying best available technology for hazardous waste management

Identifying and preparing profiles on hazardous wastes

Expanding use of environmentally less harmful agrochemicals

Expanding research on environmentally sound management of hazardous waste

Expanding international information exchange on hazardous waste

Expanding hazardous waste research in developing countries

Exchanging information on illegal transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Establishing regulations requiring environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes

Establishing inventories of hazardous waste

Establishing hazardous waste treatment centres

Establishing facilities in each country to handle its own hazardous wastes

Establishing databases on populations exposed to hazardous waste

Establishing a globally harmonized hazardous chemical classification system

Ensuring safe export of hazardous waste

Ensuring military applies environmental norms for hazardous waste treatment

Ensuring compatibility of agreements on hazardous waste

Eliminating unnecessary health hazards

Educating about national hazardous waste management

Documenting occupational hazards

Documenting hazards to human health

Disposing of hazardous waste

Developing industry-based institutions on hazardous waste handling

Developing guidelines for identifying hazardous waste

Developing community detection of traffic in hazardous wastes

Developing brown field sites

Developing appropriate methods for identifying hazardous wastes

Cooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites

Controlling transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Controlling hazardous industries

Conducting training on hazardous waste management technology in developing countries

Conducting research on the health effects of hazardous wastes in developing countries

Conducting environmental audits to assess hazardous waste management in industry

Combining treatment/disposal facilities for hazardous waste in small and medium-sized enterprises

Classifying dangerous social research

Classifying dangerous occupations

Campaigning against the export of toxic materials

Campaigning against hazardous waste disposal

Banning hazardous waste exports to countries lacking safe handling capability

Avoiding travelling hazards

Assessing multi-hazard risks of settlements

Assessing hazardous waste management needs of small and medium-sized enterprises

Assessing effectiveness of existing information systems on hazardous waste

Adopting safety standards for hazardous waste management

Adopting policies for the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste

Adopting national programmes to reduce hazardous waste

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Societal problems » Hazards

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 2, 2024