This guide is based on earlier practical field applications of approaches contained in a FAO working paper (Taylor et al., 2010). The working paper’s detailed technical section has served as a background resource document for the present guide. The practical approach described in Part Two of this guide has been developed largely during practical and training workshops carried out in Viet Nam …
The development of information and communications technologies (ICTs) enables businesses and individuals to communicate and engage in transactions with other parties electronically, instantaneously and internationally. This gives rise to a variety of legal and regulatory issues for policymakers, from the validity of electronic methods of contracting and the security risks associated with them, …
This document was prepared by the Process Safety Management Division of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE). It is based on earlier editions developed through the Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada (MIACC), a voluntary alliance of interested parties dedicated to reducing the frequency and severity of major industrial accidents. From 1987 until its dissolution in 1…
Courts have long recognized that people with mental illnesses have the right to be free from the improper use of seclusion and restraint. In the landmark 1982 case Youngberg v. Romeo, the Supreme Court recognized that the use of restraint is a drastic deprivation of personal liberty, holding that “[t]he right to be free from undue bodily restraint is the core of the liberty interest protected…
Health care waste management (HCWM) has been described as “a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and the safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff training and behavior, proper use of tools, machines and pharmaceuticals, proper disposal methods inside and outside the hospital, and evaluation.”1 Health care waste manag…
Today there is a global health workforce crisis – one marked by critical imbalances. Many countries are faced with the challenge of shortages of dentists, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and other health workers. In some countries these shortages co-exist with underemployed and unemployed health professionals, because of funding shortfalls, planning inadequacies and geographic …