What is hazardous? What is safe?
| Autor: | Healy JW |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Environmental health perspectives [Environ Health Perspect] 1978 Dec; Vol. 27, pp. 317-21. |
| DOI: | 10.1289/ehp.7827317 |
| Abstrakt: | The definition of an acceptable risk involves many facets most of which are outside the control of the decision maker, but they must be recognized if a proper definition is to be made. Six of the principal factors are stated and discussed. (1) nothing is absolutely safe; (2) each individual or group of individuals has his own standards by which he judges risk; (3) perceptions of risk vary with the conditions at any one time in history; (4) there must be a compensatory benefit for taking any risk; (5) societal perception of a risk may be different from the actual risk; and (6) safety is only one of the many factors that must be considered in the design of a product or service. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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