precautionary measures definition
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precaution precaution. a protective measure taken in advance. airborne p's a group of transmission-based precautions used when caring for patients who have diseases that spread through the air, such as tuberculosis, chickenpox, and measles.
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APA Policy Guide on Security Mitigation is used in this policy guide to refer to measures intended to prevent threats to security, or to minimize the potential or actual impacts of a natural or man made disaster. Standoff distance is the distance between an asset and a threat, as defined above.
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Hazard analysis and critical control points Hazard analysis and critical control points or HACCP (/ˈhaesʌp/) ˈhæsʌp is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from, biological, chemical and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be, unsafe and designs measurements to reduce these risks to a safe. levelerification ensures the HACCP plan is adequate, that is, working as intended. Verification procedures may include such activities as review of HACCP plans, CCP records, critical limits and microbial sampling and analysis.
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Principle Seven: Environment What does it mean? Introducing the precautionary approach, Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration states that “where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation”.
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Explaining Risk Mitigation in Project Management Risk Mitigation, within the context of a project, can be defined as a measure or set of measures taken by a project manager to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with a project. Risks can be of various types such as technical risks, monetary risks and scheduling-based risks.
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Precautionary savings Precautionary savings are intimately associated with investments, if earnings are not used for purchasing commodities and services; there is a probability that the precautionary savings can be invested to generate fixed capital and achieve economic growth.
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cybersecurity definition of cybersecurity measures taken to protect a computer or computer system as on the internet against unauthorized access or attack
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prophylaxis prophylaxis. prevention of disease; preventive treatment. dental prophylaxis. scaling and polishing teeth carried out regularly to prevent and control peridontal disease.
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GUIDELINES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PRECAUTIONARY BOIL WATER NOTICES CONTENT AND DELIVERY OF PRECAUTIONARY BOIL WATER NOTICES The content of precautionary boil water notices shall include the following information: name of the public water system, geographical area affected, statement of the problem, date of occurrence, consumer corrective measures to be taken, and action being taken by the public water system to correct the problem.
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- 1 Austria meanwhile had begun to arm as a precautionary measure; and Napoleon, shortly after his return from Bayonne to Paris, publicly declared that, if her preparations went on, he would wage against her a war of extermination. 2  Nor was there wanting still another precautionary motive more related to Ahab personally.
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Prevention 1 Preventive medicine, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms. 2  Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and criminals.  Hazard prevention, the process of risk study, elimination, and mitigation in emergency management.
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- precaution noun. C1 [C] an ​action that is done to ​prevent something ​unpleasant or ​dangerous ​happening: Many ​people have been ​stockpiling ​food as a precaution against ​shortages. They ​failed to take the ​necessary precautions to ​avoid ​infection.
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Workers bear the corporate income tax burden As Jim reports, our best estimate is that workers bear 20 percent of the corporate income tax, shareholders bear 60 percent, and investors as a whole bear 20 percent. [Editor's note: This paragraph and a sentence two paragraphs down have been corrected.
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- Crime prevention is proactive and is defined as all programmes or initiatives implemented to reduce the impact of crime. Crime control is more reactive and is defined as the controlling of specific crime events that have already occurred.
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Hazard analysis and critical control points Hazard analysis and critical control points. Hazard analysis and critical control points or HACCP (/ˈhæsʌp/) is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and designs measurements to reduce these risks to a safe level.
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What is HACCP? Implementing a HACCP System requires that both Prerequisite Programs and HACCP Plans are implemented. Prerequisite programs are programs that are put in place in the facility to control hazards in the environment, preventing contamination of the product.
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preemption preemption. n. the rule of law that if the federal government through Congress has enacted legislation on a subject matter it shall be controlling over state laws and/or preclude the state from enacting laws on the same subject if Congress has specifically stated it has occupied the field..
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- Many commentators argue that what is needed for the precautionary principle to. be utilised more, and utilised well, is its inclusion in policy guidelines so that decision-makers can. more easily apply it to specific situations (Precautionary Principle Project, 2005, Peterson, 2006, Herath and Prato, 2010).
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- Preemption Law and Legal Definition. Preemption is the rule of law that if the federal government through Congress has enacted legislation on a subject matter it shall be controlling over state laws and/or preclude the state from enacting laws on the same subject if Congress has specifically declared it has occupied the field..
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- The types of control measures, listed from most effective to least effective, that may be used to protect yourself, your workers and your customers are: 1  Engineering controls; 2  Administrative controls; 3  Work practices; and.  Personal protective equipment (PPE).
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GUIDELINES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PRECAUTIONARY BOIL WATER NOTICES Finished water turbidity levels exceeding 1.0 NTU in conjunction with the failure of a public water system to maintain adequate disinfection to achieve the required removal/inactivation of Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and viruses would warrant the issuance of a precautionary boil water notice.
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Infection control principles and practices for local health agencies Standard Precautions. Standard precautions are a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes.
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prophylaxis prevention of or protection against disease, often involving the use of a biologic, chemical, or mechanical agent to destroy or prevent the entry of infectious organisms. prophylactic, adj. Medtalk A medical maneuver intended to prevent disease. See Chemoprophylaxis, HIV prophylaxis, Malaria prophylaxis.
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containment Definition of containment for English Language Learners : the act of preventing the spread of something : actions that are intended to keep an unfriendly government from getting more power
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- Prophylaxis is the prevention and treatment of a disease, or a cleaning of teeth in the dental office. 1  An example of a prophylaxis is a vaccine such as the polio vaccine. 2  An example of a prophylaxis is having the tartar scraped off your teeth.
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Aristotle's metaphysics A precautionary war is one waged not out. of strong conviction that a dangerous threat is brewing. in the target state, but rather because it is suspected that. such a threat might one day emerge, and it is better to. be safe than sorry. Put in the vernacular, preventive war, the real subject.