Vulnerable definition

Vulnerable means a condition in which an adult is unable to protect himself or herself from abuse, neglect, or exploitation because of a mental or physical impairment or because of advanced age.
Vulnerable means a Customer who is classed as Vulnerable according to the following
Vulnerable means subject to contamination, a determination which shall be made by the Division based on previous monitoring results, the number of persons served by the public water system, the proximity of a smaller system to a larger system, the proximity to commercial or industrial use, disposal or storage of volatile synthetic organic compounds (VOCs), and the protection of the water source(s).

Examples of Vulnerable in a sentence

  • The Corporation of The College has a statutory and moral duty to safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults receiving education, training and care through the College, under the safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

  • Sponsoring Agency agrees to develop policies and procedures in conformance with 14 NYCRR § 624.5 regarding the reporting, recording, investigation, review and monitoring of reportable incidents and notable occurrences as defined in Part 624 and the reporting and management of events and situations as defined in Part 625 and make them known to Family Care providers, including their duty to report reportable incidents to the Vulnerable Person’s Central Register.

  • PacifiCorp agrees that the metric, “SAIDI, SAIFI, and CAIDI* at area level including and excluding major events” for the CBI “Frequency and duration of energy outages” will also include data for the frequency of customer outages for Vulnerable Populations (where available).

  • For its CBI – Residential customer disconnections – PacifiCorp agrees to replace its metric (“number of residential customer disconnections including disconnections within named communities”) with the following metric: Number and percentage of residential electric disconnections for nonpayment by month, measured by location and demographic information (zip code/census tract, KLI customers, Vulnerable Populations (where known), Highly Impacted Communities, and for all customers in total).

  • Voluntary Reduction from Classes Designated as Vulnerable to Layoff 90 Section 7.


More Definitions of Vulnerable

Vulnerable means a Customer who is classed as Vulnerable according to the following definition – ‘A Customer is Vulnerable if, for reasons of age, health, disability or severe financial insecurity, they are unable to safeguard their personal welfare or the personal welfare of other members of the household’;
Vulnerable means there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child’s health, safety, or welfare is in jeopardy due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or similar circumstances and that return to the child’s or the child’s parent’s country of origin or country of last habitual residence would not be in the best interests of the child.
Vulnerable means groups within society that face higher risks of social exclusion and poverty, including but not limited to the disabled; children; women; the elderly; blacks (i.e. Africans, Coloureds and Asians); orphans; and the homeless.
Vulnerable means the most vulnerable live free from harm and as self-sufficiently as possible.
Vulnerable means the inability to protect oneself from identified
Vulnerable students are to be identified by: ● their attendance; ● academic performance and/or classroom conduct; ● academic or citizenship grade below “C;” and/or ● the Local Control Funding Formula (“LCFF”)
Vulnerable customer is someone who, due to their personal circumstances, is especially susceptible to detriment or harm, particularly when a firm is not acting with appropriate levels of care. The vulnerability may be due to circumstances of mental health, eyesight, hearing, physical disability, language, bereavement, or financial circumstances.