• Differentiate between hazard and a risk. Hazard- makes us sick and makes our life expectancy shorter. - Is something that can cause you to become injured or get a disease and could eventually kill you. (Ex: people working with asbestos for a certain amount of time can develop cancer) - Anything that can cause damage to your personal property or public property (ex a flood damaging your home) - Things that would cause the environment to become polluted‚ anything that would be mistreatment
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Assessment activity 1 1. Compare and contrast two appropriate techniques that could be used to investigate incidents. You do not have to limit your response to techniques discussed in the text. Which techniques would you favor? Why? Interviews and Inspections can be to investigate incidents. I favor inspections‚ as this is raw data from the incident scene which can be used to draw up scenarios and conclusions. 2. When using questioning techniques to investigate
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* Differentiate between hazard and a risk. Hazard is anything that causes injury‚ disease‚ or death to humans‚ or damage to personal or public property‚ or deterioration or destruction of environmental components. Risk is suffering injury disease‚ death‚ or some other loss as a result of exposure to a hazard. (Boorse) * What risks from Figure 17-16 and Table 17-3 surprise you and why do they surprise you? In figure 17-3 the aids rate is what surprised me I didn’t think it would be that low. If
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Assigned Task 9 - Hazards and risks Briefly describe a situation in your care work when you have recently been involved in an activity with a child that involved either: moving and handling (such as a wheelchair) hazardous and non-hazardous equipment and materials (such as a craft session‚ cookery group‚ assisting someone with hygiene needs or administering medication). Any setting or activity carries a level of risk. By identifying and reducing risks in advance‚ full use can be made of the setting
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Dust Mask/ Respirators | | | 5. Spats | | Potential Environmental Hazards(Circle below) | * Hazardous Materials(attach MSDS) | * Fire/Emergency Equipment Requirements(e.g. fire extinguisher‚ rescue gear etc) | X | Air Pollution (dust) Fumes | | 1- Fire Extinguisher at works area | | Spills to ground | | | X | Noise | | | | Soil erosion | | | | Spills to water | | | | Hazards to flora and fauna | | | | | Electrical | | Chemical | | Light/Dark/Visibility
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Review Questions 1. Assess the similarities and differences between threat‚ risk‚ hazard‚ and peril. Threat‚ Risk‚ Hazard and Peril are all siblings of the same beast‚ if you will. A risk professional could refer to hazards as the contributing factor to a peril. Perils are the cause of the risk‚ such as a kitchen fire raging out of control. With cooking comes the threat of a fire‚ the hazard being the fire or source of fuel‚ the risk being the ever increasing chance of getting burned‚ making
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Hazards‚ risks‚ outcomes The terminology used in OSH varies between states‚ but generally speaking: • A hazard is something that can cause harm if not controlled. • The outcome is the harm that results from an uncontrolled hazard. • A risk is a combination of the probability that a particular outcome will occur and the severity of the harm involved. “Hazard”‚ “risk”‚ and “outcome” are used in other fields to describe e.g. environmental damage‚ or damage to equipment. However‚ in
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In your own words‚ discuss the difference between adverse selection and moral hazard. Provide your own example for each problem. Adverse selection and moral hazard are both examples of market failure situation due to hidden information from the buyer or seller in a market. In adverse selection‚ hidden information is usually present before an agreement is made; where as‚ in moral hazard‚ hidden information is revealed after an agreement has been made. Adverse selection refers to a situation
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a health care organization influence the development and implementation of risk-management and quality-management policies? Proper risk management requires a strong commitment from senior management A documented process that supports the organization’s mission. The leadership of a health care organization must exercise its judgment to prioritize resources for risk management purposes. Leadership should develop risk management plans. Quality management requires managers that understand the
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Identify the differences between bacteria viruses‚ Fungi and Parasites. Viruses are pieces of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein that replicate only within the cells of living hosts. Bacteria are one-cell microorganisms with a simple cellular organization whose nucleus lacks a membrane. Parasites may be protozoa‚ yeasts‚ or multicellular organisms such as fungi or worms that live in or on a host to obtain nourishment without providing any benefit to the host. Fungi
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