This chapter highlights the importance of hazard-resistant construction in building an animal facility.
This system is a semi-quantitative risk rating system and takes into account the relative differences in the importance of hazards as experienced at each mine site as a result of different combinations of geotechnical factors and mining conditions.
Hazard scores from the survey were compared with HC scores, because these are indicators of the potential importance of a hazard.
The importance of moral hazard can at times be exaggerated.
Felix Salmon, by contrast, argues that I'm wrong about the importance of moral hazard because I've been looking for it in the wrong place.
The argument I made yesterday, and in the magazine last year, was that the importance of moral hazard in sparking the financial crisis by encouraging reckless behavior on the part of bank executives has been overrated.
The importance of this hazard will be similar to what it was in the reference period (1961 1990).
The relative importance of alternative hazard intensity metrics to surface transportation disruption is assessed with a suggested approach to account for these in existing fragility functions.
The results reveal a complex landscape of ENM effects on macrophage host defenses, including both enhanced and reduced capacities, and underscore the importance of robust hazard assessment, including immunotoxicity assessment, of ENMs.
