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fits health awareness campaigns?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"health","name":"Health","description":"Health and safety.","findings":[{"id":"health-finding","name":"Health","description":"Health.","questions":[{"text":"What health and safety considerations, such as respirator fit, apply to facial hair?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits respiratory protection?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe moustache styles and their history.","Explain grooming rules of workplaces or institutions with their source."],"mustNot":["Infer a person's religion, ethnicity, politics or sexuality from a moustache.","Use demeaning or stereotyping names for styles as descriptions of people.","Ignore facial hair when checking the fit of a tight-fitting respirator.","Use images of a person's face for identification without consent or legal basis."],"requiresHuman":["Enforcing a grooming rule that conflicts with a person's religious practice."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Facial hair rules can discriminate against religious and ethnic groups."],"affectedParties":["People subject to grooming rules","Respirator wearers","Religious minorities"]},"owners":{"steward":"The person who wears it.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1847641","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q66568682","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"human facial hair","type":"related","note":"the category"},{"target":"beard","type":"related","note":"the other main facial hair"},{"target":"grooming","type":"related","note":"the practice"},{"target":"dress code","type":"related","note":"in some institutions"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.moustache","Wikidata: Q15179 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15179)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Hair length:  millimetres - Measure representative hairs from their emergence at the skin to their tips along the hair shaft.","Hair shaft diameter:  micrometres - Measure representative hair shafts using calibrated microscopy.","Hair density:  hairs per square centimetre - Count visible hair shafts emerging within a measured area of upper lip skin."]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Facial hair confined to the upper lip","Named styles by shape","A beard covers the chin and cheeks; stubble is unshaped","Hair on the upper lip, trimmed and shaped in a style."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["describe named styles","relay grooming information","explain cultural and institutional conventions","present history with attribution"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Stereotyping by facial hair","Demeaning style names used as descriptions","Respirator seal failure"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Military and police grooming regulations","Food hygiene rules on facial hair in some workplaces","Respirator fit rules for facial hair"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Personal appearance and expression.","pencil moustache","handlebar moustache","chevron and walrus moustaches","horseshoe and other extended styles","toothbrush moustache, historically loaded","moustaches with beards as combined styles"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q15179: moustache","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15179","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Moustache","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustache","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should named styles be separate entries?","How should grooming regulations be linked?","The registry entry has merged aliases including a crude name and an ethnically loaded style name; they should be reviewed"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q15179/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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