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The precautionary principle: protecting public health, the ...
www.euro.who.intThe precautionary principle has been gaining prominence and profile and has become a guiding principle in modern thinking in environment and health – a most welcome development for WHO and everyone engaged in public health. If used intelligently, imaginatively and daringly, the precautionary principle will support efforts to
GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING THE PRECAUTIONARY …
www.iucn.orgThe Precautionary Principle has been widely incorporated, in various forms, in international environmental agreements and declarations and further developed in a number of national laws. An element common to the various formulations of the Precautionary Principle is the recognition that lack of certainty regarding the threat
Lessons Learned - uml.edu
www.uml.eduof the precautionary principle have strongly influenced environmental and health policy debates in the U.S. and in Europe. This report, Lessons Learned: Solutions for Workplace Safety and Health builds on these earlier efforts, making the case for precautionary and pre-ventive action to improve workplace health and safety in the U.S.
Chapter 2* - Water Quality Requirements - WHO
www.who.intPrecautionary principle The principle, by virtue of which action to avoid the potential adverse impact of the release of hazardous substances shall not be postponed on the ground that scientific research has not fully proved a causal link between those substances, on the one hand, and the potential adverse impact, on the other