AIMS To investigate the awareness and knowledge of hazardous drinking limits among the general population in Sweden and the extent to which people estimate their alcohol consumption in standard drinks to assess their level of drinking. METHODS A population-based study involving 6000 individuals selected from the total Swedish population was performed. Data were collected by means of a postal ...

Aims: To investigate the awareness and knowledge of hazardous drinking limits among the general population in Sweden and the extent to which people estimate their alcohol consumption in standard drinks to assess their level of drinking. Methods: A population-based study involving 6000 individuals selected from the total Swedish population was performed. Data were collected by means of a postal ...

Need for an online hazardous waste tracking system Suneel Pandey Hazardous waste management is one of the most challenging aspects of any environmental management system for any industry. There are more than 50 000 chemical substances, with one million combinations, used in industrial activities. Hazardous wastes – in the form of solids, liquids gases or sludge – are generated by a wide range o...

This study empirically evaluates whether the increasingly large numbers of private outpatient healthcare facilities (HCFs) within the European Union (EU) countries comply with the existing European waste legislation, and whether compliance with such legislation affects the fraction of healthcare waste (HCW) classified as hazardous. To that end, this study uses data collected by a large survey o...

How people perceive the nature of a hazardous substance may determine how they respond when potentially exposed to it. We tested a new Perceptions AbouT Hazardous Substances (PATHS) questionnaire. In Study 1 (N = 21), we assessed the face validity of items concerning perceptions about eight properties of a hazardous substance. In Study 2 (N = 2030), we tested the factor structure, reliability a...

Main results For men, both hazardous/harmful and non/occasional drinkers reported higher symptom scores and lower positive affect than light drinkers. The mental health of non-drinkers could not be explained by a history of hazardous/harmful drinking or current tobacco or cannabis use. Higher levels of distress were accounted for by poorer physical health and lower extraversion. For women, haza...

This research took part in the R&D (Research and Development) and manufacturing processes of platelet agitator instruments at W-ESPR Technology Company. First, two measurement indexes, the hazard probability and hazard severity, were used to evaluate all possible hazardous events drawn from ISO 14971 (the quality management of medical devices regulations) in the R&D and manufacturing process. A...

Ambivalence toward alcohol often develops when hazardous drinkers try to quit or to control their drinking. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between hazardous drinkers with and without ambivalence toward alcohol in terms of their visual attention to alcohol-related pictures over time using an eye-tracker. The study included 20 hazardous drinkers with ambivalence and ...

OBJECTIVES Consistent evidence has shown that young people are significantly overrepresented among victims of violence due to another person's drinking. Yet little research has examined factors that explain alcohol-related victimization among young adults, particularly in Canada. The present study examines the influence of hazardous drinking and illicit drug use on the likelihood of experiencin...

The Korean Research Project on Integrated Exposure Assessment to Hazardous Materials for Food Safety (KRIEFS) was assembled by the Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation, a subsidiary of the Korea Food and Drug Administration, on March 2010, to conduct a nationwide survey of infants, children, teenagers, and adults in order to observe and assess their dietary intake and exposure to hazard...