RISK MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION 1. Risk is all around us‚ over the last few years we have become more sensituationive and perhaps a little more accustomed to the types of risk we face. For example the recent economic recession highlighted the risk of interdependence of economies of the world; the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai reinforced the risk associated with the open waterways into the financial capital of our country. 2. There is a growing recognition that the risk is more complex and
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Geography Unit 1 Revision notes World at Risk – Physical Global hazards can be split into two groups – Hydro meteorological and Geophysical hazards‚ which cause a number of disasters around the world. Where people are already vulnerable because of poverty‚ high population density‚ multiple hazard hotspots occur. Climate Change is a context hazard as it causes a global chronic threat to people and the environment. Environmental Hazards: can be defined as the threat posed to humans and
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306 Work with other people in a business environment 306.1 Understand how to support an organisation’s overall mission and purpose 1.1. Explain how the organisation works My organisation is an equal opportunities employer. It considers the values‚ beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and behaviours shared by all the people. Including employees & clients. 1.2 What is your organisations mission and purpose? My organisation’s mission is to give people/ clients what they want. Whether it is a structure of a building
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diseases. For that reason‚ food safety comes into play. Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling‚ preparation‚ and storage of food in ways that prevent illness. This includes a set of laws that should be followed to stay away from potentially severe health hazards. Food can transmit disease from individual to individual‚ and also serves as a growth medium for bacteria that can cause food poisoning (Roberts‚ 2001). Debates on genetic food safety include such issues as the impact
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Fire prevention in the workplace: It is your responsibility to be aware of the causes of fire and to prevent fires from occurring in the workplace. What to do if there’s a fire: If there’s a fire the main priority is to ensure that everybody can reach a safe place quickly. Putting the fire out is secondary and if a workplace does not have adequate means of detecting and giving warning or means of escape‚ a fire can trap people or they may be overcome by the heat and the smoke before they can evacuate
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people’s health and safety. Criteria 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/3.1/3.2 There are a number of factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor environments and services. The first thing you need to consider is the age needs and ability’s of the children. For example there will be different risks to a toddler with hearing difficulty then the risk to a toddler with out. That dose not mean they should not play with the same toys just how we asses and deal with the risk. This apply’s
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Firefighter safety dealing with photovoltaic has been on the rise due to the rise of green construction. There have been many safety concerns for dealing with firefighting operations. The tactical objectives must change when in countering photovoltaic materials along with the dead load and how they effect the structural intregrety of the building. There are many safety concerns when dealing with photovoltaic materials. The risk of electrical shock from high voltage is high‚ trips and slips occur
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What motivates people to work hard? This will be an analytical report outlining the views of experts‚ how their views correlate or differ and the relevance of their opinions on motivation techniques. As well this report will also determine whether people are motivated by similar factors or whether the context of the vocation leaves some factors more prevalent than others. This report will conclude having discussed the above question in depth using text materials outlined later on‚ in the attempt
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PLANT SAFETY Industrial accidents present a serious problem like production losses and property damage that can possibly have a crippling effect on the operations of the organization. However‚ it is possible to and practicable to control industrial accidents Objectives of The Indian Factories Act 1948 • To protect human beings from being subjected to unduly long hours of bodily strains of manual labor‚ and • Employees should work in health and sanitary conditions so far as the manufacturing
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has to take care of her younger brother David. David doesn’t know how to follow many rules. Instead Catherine makes specific rules for him to follow. She just doesn’t have to make rules for him to follow‚ but she also has to teach him how to act around people and in public. On the first day of summer Catherine realizes there were moving trucks at her neighbors house. When she met her new neighbor’s Kristi she was very pleased and made great friends with her. A few days later she met a guy named Jason
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