GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, European Environment Agency, Nitrogen Dioxide
28 Mar 2016
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Life expectancy: changes depending on the age of the individual: example: you are 20, so you may live to be 85, all depends on the environment (war, natural disasters, and natural environment). Not everyone in this room has the chance of survival gender aside. One will have the odds of having cancer, heart disease, die etc. Genes: where you live, where you work, where you play. How you operate with these factors will have a major bearing. How well you are while you are here. Hazard represents intrinsic danger: hazards are there regardless of quantity and/or use. Risk is the probability of adverse effects occurring: risk will change depending on quantity and/or use. Examples: i will enter a radioactive room ( hazard) with a t-shirt and jeans ( risk, i could trip or fall going up or down the stairs ( hazard). Likelihood of injury ( risk), expressed often as a fraction (1 in a hundred, thousand, million etc )
