A warning that reasonably alerts a product’s average user to a potential hazard, and the nature and extent of the danger. • Four elements have been articulated as comprising an adequate warning: (1) notice that a severe hazard exists, (2) a description of the hazard’s nature, (3) a description of the hazard’s possible conse-quences, and […]
Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes Within Africa. A 1991 treaty prohibiting the importation of hazardous wastes into Africa and restricting the transfer of wastes among African nations. • The treaty’s objectives are to protect human health and the environment from the
pro bono (proh boh-noh), adv. & adj.[Latin pro bono publico “for the public good”] Being or involving uncompensated legal services performed esp. for the public good (took the case pro bono) (50 hours of pro bono work each year). [Cases: Attorney and Client 132. C.J.S. Attorney and Client §§ 299–303.] “The bar in this country
child labor. The employment of workers under the age of majority. • This term typically focuses on abusive practices such as exploitative factory work; slavery, sale, and trafficking in children; forced or compulsory labor such as debt bondage and serfdom; and the use of children in prostitution, pornography, drug-trafficking, or anything else that might jeopardize
危害 英语：hazard 法语：danger, risque 德语：Gefahr, Risiko 意大利语：pericolo, insidia, rischio 西班牙语：peligro, riesgo
occupational disease 职业病(→occupational hazard)
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