...Develop Emergency action plan Student’s Name Institution Develop Emergency action plan. Introduction. A general behavior model is an approach used in the risk management based on the situations of the cases. The steps of this model seek to establish the factors likely to increase the risk and how such variables can be circumvented or resolved within good time (Cheremisinoff & Rosenfeld, 2009). Assessment of stressor event. Stress to the fuel tank can result from falling objects of the large housing development nearby or from any of the four functioning pumps. The source of the stressors can be thermal, human, chemical or mechanical factors on the system. Assessment of the container breach. After the intense impact on any of the four underground tanks at the petrol station, there could be breaks and breaches on it causing communication with the environment. The breach on the underground storage tanks can result from detonation, explosion, spill, leak or rapid release. Checking the petrol, diesel release. A breached underground tank can release the fuel to the environment, either through the pumps or any other broken part of the container. Both petrol and diesel can be released in the form of either vapor or liquid depending on the prevailing environmental temperatures. The danger zone likely to be engulfed by petrol or diesel at the petrol station include the convenience store, the cashier and the...
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...1. I would start by selecting a person from each department to work with me in getting the campus up to par. Because this is a big project, getting help from other people will allow me to work on multiple projects at the same time. My first assignment would be for each department to start working on an extensive chemical inventory list so a master log could be assembled. 2. I would definitely start with the Massive Arena. I'm starting there because of the asbestos hazard. Asbestos is a human carcinogen that can cause chronic lung disease and other cancers. Asbestos fibers are airborne toxins that can be inhaled and trapped in the lungs. The inhalant is unaware of this. If swallowed, it can become embedded in digestive tract. To comply with OSHA standard 29 CFR 1926.1101, the workers need to know the PEL, they need to assess the workplace, and monitoring needs to take place. No smoking, eating, or drinking may occur at the renovation site, and proper PPE must be provided and used to prevent asbestos exposure. The workers will be required to take breaks and eat away from the renovation area. They will also be required to decontaminate with proper hygiene practices in a separate location away from the renovation area. The workers at the site will be adequately trained about asbestos exposure and hazards(Occupational Safety & Health Administration,n.d.). I would handle the rest of the departments in the following order: chemistry department, automotive department...
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...GUIDE FOR MAJOR HAZARD FACILITIES: EMERGENCY PLANS Safe Work Australia is an Australian Government statutory agency established in 2009. Safe Work Australia consists of representatives of the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Australian Industry Group. Safe Work Australia works with the Commonwealth, state and territory governments to improve work health and safety and workers’ compensation arrangements. Safe Work Australia is a national policy body, not a regulator of work health and safety. The Commonwealth, states and territories have responsibility for regulating and enforcing work health and safety laws in their jurisdiction. ISBN 978-0-642-33376-6 [PDF] ISBN 978-0-642-33377-3 [RTF] Creative Commons [pic] Except for the Safe Work Australia logo this copyright work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Australia licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/ In essence, you are free to copy, communicate and adapt the work for non commercial purposes, as long as you attribute the work to Safe Work Australia and abide by the other licence terms. Contact information Safe Work Australia Phone: +61 2 6121 5317 Email: info@safeworkaustralia.gov.au Website: www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au Table...
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...Legislation Quizzes will begin on Monday October 1, 2012 *Conservation – “Controlled Use”, “Scientific Management” of natural resources. “Greatest good for the greatest number of people. *Preservation – Remaining wilderness areas on public lands should be left untouched. *Restoration – To bring back to former condition (former natural state/condition), active restoration seeks to reestablish a diverse, dynamic community at sites that have been degraded. *Remediation – Most often used with cleanup of chemical contaminants in a polluted area. *Mitigation – Repairing/Rehabilitating a damaged ecosystem or compensation for damage. Most often by providing a substitute or replacement area; frequently involves wetland ecosystems. *Reclamation – Typically used to describe chemical or physical manipulations carried out in severely degraded sites, such as open-pit mines or large-scale construction. Environmental Legislation/Agreements NAME | Abbr. | Description | Atomic Energy Act | | The act establishes a general regulatory structure for construction and use of nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons facilities. Unlike most environmental statutes, it does not permit citizen suits and affords only limited opportunities for suits by public interest groups. | *Clean Air Act | CAA | Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards. | ...
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...1989: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Abstract: A tanker filled to capacity with crude oil ran aground and ruptured yesterday 25 miles from the southern end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, spewing her cargo into water rich in marine life. (Shabecoff, 1989) THE BACK STORY THE TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM After oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay on the northern coast of Alaska in 1968, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company was formed by the owner companies: BP Exploration, ARCO, Exxon, Mobil, Amerada Hess, Phillips, and Union. Alyeska determined that the most economic method of transporting oil from Prudhoe Bay to the U.S. west coast was oil transport through a pipeline from the bay to Valdez, followed by oil tanker transport south. President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act on November 16, 1973. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) consists of an extensive 800 mile pipeline (Figure 6.1), 11 pump stations, and an oil terminal at Valdez; it cost more than $8 billion to build (USDIBLM, 2005). 75 OIL SPILL PREPAREDNESS At the time of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, six contingency plans were in place to coordinate oil spill response efforts. On the national level, the National Response Team (NRT) provided national support for response actions related to oil discharges and hazardous substance releases. NRT supported emergency responders at all levels by means of technical expertise and equipment, assisted in the development of training, coordinated responses...
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...REPORT ON THE ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN OF MH GROUP HOLDINGS A risk is an event or condition that, if it occurs, may produce positive or negative effects on a company’s objectives. The risk management process therefore identifies, assesses, controls, monitors and reports the exposures that an entity faces. This report defines the exposures associated with MH group; how they will be identified, assessed and managed and also outlines how the risk management activities will be performed, recorded and monitored on a regular basis. This report is presented by the Risk Manager to the Board of directors on the risk management analysis of the following entities of the group; MHA, USA-based professional baseball team and the Canadian textile manufacturing and distributing entity. The steps for accomplishing this are outlined in the following sections. The focus has been to identify pure risks rather than speculative risks. Government regulations and natural catastrophes?? 1) Risk Identification and assessment for MHA The risk identification process entails the evaluation of environmental and operational factors as well as the organisational structure. Information is gotten from the financial reports, audit report, industry reports, site visits, employee questionnaires and contracts/agreements with contractors and suppliers. The holding’s revenue has tripled since 2001; a detail examination of loss histories would add valuable information to risk management analysis. The assessment process...
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...Essentials of Risk Management Kyle Nutt American Public University Systems January 19th 2014 MGMT311 – Organizational Behavior Essentials of Risk Management An effective risk management system is essential when it comes to the success of an organization. Without a proper risk management plan in effect avoidable mistakes can happen that can have detrimental effects on company. An effective risk management plan will identify potential risks as well as provide ways to avoid these risks to ensure a safe workplace, and financial stability for the organization. Although financial risks are very important for a company, safety risks can severely harm an organization’s employees, users, and reputation. A company that failed to properly implement an effective risk management plan is BP Chemical Company (BP). The risk management failure of BP caused many issues for the organization, employees, so much more including people, places, and things. In 2010 an explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was a result of a poor risk management plan that lead to the death of 11 as well as the release of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf (Zolkos & Bradford, 2011). According to a report done by the U.S. Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management the investigators found no evidence that BP performed a formal risk assessment of critical operational decisions made in the days leading up to the blowout. BP's failure to fully assess the risks associated...
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...Economics Seminar paper on the subject: English 4 Crisis management June, 2012 Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens to harm the organization, its stakeholders, or the general public. The study of crisis management originated with the large scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980. Three elements are common to most definitions of crisis: (a) a threat to the organization, (b) the element of surprise, and (c) a short decision time. Venette argues that "crisis is a process of transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained." Therefore the fourth defining quality is the need for change. If change is not needed, the event could more accurately be described as a failure or incident. In contrast to risk management, which involves assessing potential threats and finding the best ways to avoid those threats, crisis management involves dealing with threats before, during, and after they have occurred. That is, crisis management is proactive, not merely reactive. It is a discipline within the broader context of management consisting of skills and techniques required to identify, assess, understand, and cope with a serious situation, especially from the moment it first occurs to the point that recovery procedures start. Introduction Crisis management consists of: * Methods used to respond to both the reality...
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...Risk Management Students Name Course Tutor Date Philosophy/Policy Statement Risk management is a process that involves risk assessment and a mitigation strategy for the risks. This means that identification of potential risk and evaluation of the impact of the risk is necessary. This is what is called risk assessment. A mitigation strategy is a plan that has designed and put in place to minimize the impact of the potential risk events or the adverse effects of a risk on a project. Risks in a project are unpredictable. Some are yet to happen, and some will not occur. This means that one has to get prepared to deal with any risks. The underlying philosophy of handling risk is avoiding, mitigating transferring and accepting. Avoiding means that if prevention of the happenings of the risk is possible, then that would be the best option. If it cannot be prevented or avoided, taking action so that the risk will do little harm to a project would be the other option known as mitigation. The other effective way is to pay another party to accept it. This is called transfer and are such as insurance. Lastly, if the risk cannot be solved by transfer, avoidance or mitigation then one has to accept it. This means you have to face the risk although have other alternatives when this happens. Needs Assessment Needs assessment in risk management is an essential process for any company. This is an important tool that helps in identifying the lapses in various areas of risk management...
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...ec5.4 Health & Safety The addition of electric drive and large battery packs introduces several new potential hazards to the transit bus workplace. These hazards include electric shock, chemical burn, and explosion due to hydrogen build-up. All three hazards can be managed through a variety of design, monitoring, operational and maintenance procedures. Standards have been developed through National Electric Code (NEC), Federal Transit Authority (FTA), National Highway Safety Transportation Administration (NHSTA), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and others. Committees are working on several areas where holes exist in the standards.2 5.4.1 Electrical Shock There is a danger of electrical shock with any motor vehicle should a mechanic or passenger come into contact with a live circuit under normal or fault conditions. With hybrid-electric buses, contact can come from electricity during battery charging (AC current) or discharging (DC current). If contact is made, the extent of injury will depend on the size, duration, frequency, and wave shape of the current. Conventional diesel buses make use of 12/24vDC and 220/240vAC. Hybrid drive buses operate at levels of power up to 400vDC and 600 amps. However, the risk of electrical shock can be mitigated through proper engineering, labelling, and safe maintenance practices. SAE standards have been developed to minimize electrical hazards associated with the design and manufacture of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles....
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...Introduction………………………………………………………………...1 Environmental Impact…………………………………………….…….…2 Major Spills Occurring in Water………………………….………………4 Major Spills Occurring on Land………………………………………..…6 Cleaning up a Large Oil Spill…………………………………………...…7 What Can Be Changed…………………………………………………….9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………10 References……………………………………………………...………….12 List of Illustrations Figure 1: An Oiled Pelican in Costal Louisiana………………………….3 Figure 2: The Exxon Valdez aground on Blight Reef……………………5 Figure 3: One of the many oil wells set afire outside Kuwait City……...6 Figure 4: A Boom on the Louisiana Coast………………………………..7 Figure 4: Shoreline Modification in Coastal Louisiana………………….8 Figure 6: Ships and Drilling Rigs Surrounding the Discover Enterprise9 Introduction The world’s dependence on oil is no secret. Feeding this addiction puts immense demand on oil companies to produce oil as quickly as possible. Finding large reserves of oil is a never ending quest for oil companies. Transporting oil is a major risk of the oil production process. This crucial step has the potential for the most catastrophic damage. Oil spills can impact ecosystems in devastating ways and decimate animal life in the area affected. The damage can last decades and sometimes the effects can be irreversible. Obviously the larger oil spills cause the most damage, as they are often difficult to contain and clean up. There will always be oil spills; making the effort to eliminate the large ones should be the primary...
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...Pop and Selma’s Cafe WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY Goals This policy: Shows the commitment of Pop and Selma’s management and workers to health and safety Aims to remove or reduce the risks to the health, safety and welfare of all workers, contractors and visitors, and anyone else who may be affected by our business operations Aims to ensure all work activities are done safely. Responsibilities Management (the supervisor and / or manager) is responsible for providing and maintaining: a safe working environment safe systems of work plant and substances in safe condition facilities for the welfare of all workers any information, instruction, training and supervision needed to make sure that all workers are safe from injury and risks to their health Workers are responsible for: ensuring their own personal health and safety, and that of others in the workplace complying with any reasonable directions (such as safe work procedures, wearing personal protective equipment) given by management for health and safety * Date: .......................................................................................... Signed Manager: ....................................................................... Signed Worker: ...................................................................... Date to be reviewed: ................................................................... Pop and Selma’s Café STAFF CODE OF CONDUCT POLICY Dress Code- * Employees must...
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...and Refinishing Environmental Compliance On-Site Evaluations Ali Etebari (603) 868-1447 E-mail: aetebari@vt.edu Facility: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NH DES) Small Business Technical Assistance Program (SBTAP) 64 North Main St P. O. Box 2033 Concord, NH 03302-2033 Contact: Rudy Cartier NH DES Small Business Ombudsman Phone: 1-800-837-0656 Fax: 271-1381 E-mail: cartier@desarsb.mv.com Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ihab Farag 255 Kingsbury Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 3 Introduction/Background 3 Goals/Objectives 4 Approach/Methodology 4 Chemical Usage, Equipment Needs 4 Releases/Wastes Generated at the Facility 5 Details of Work Accomplished/Project Results 5 Pollution Prevention Benefits 5 Recommendations for Future Efforts 6 References 6 Appendices: A. Sample Report 6 B. Evaluation Checklist 10 C. Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet 13 Executive Summary: SBTAP is offering small-scale automotive repair and refinishing businesses free confidential on-site inspections in order to increase their awareness of certain environmental compliance issues and their solutions. These issues, when ignored, often result in serious health hazards and legal consequences. Many small businesses are uneducated on the State’s...
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...AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: PETROLEUM REFINERY: Irving Oil Company TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................3 1.1 Background.............................................................................................................3 1.2 Purpose....................................................................................................................3 1.3 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process.................................................3 1.4 Definitions/Glossary...............................................................................................6 2.0 METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EIA.................................................................8 2.1 General....................................................................................................................8 2.2 Study Boundaries and Scope of Factors.................................................................8 2.3 Prediction of Environmental Effects.......................................................................9 2.4 Cumulative Environmental Effects.........................................................................10 2.5 Mitigation, Contingency and Compensation..........................................................10 2.6 Commitment to Monitoring and Follow-Up...........................................................11 2...
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...Case Study N0 5 SEC – 320: Risk Loss Prevention, Emergency Planning Professor: S. W. Smith DeVry University Prepared by: MLZ Sunday, November 16, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Municipal Emergency Response to a Dirty Bomb Incident (Orlando, FL) 4 Low-level Nuclear Material Stateside and Abroad 5 Logistics of Decontamination 6 Disposal of Contaminated Property 7 Clean-Up Materials 8 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction According to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission a “Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD) commonly known as Dirty Bomb is the combination of conventional explosives for example plain dynamite mixed with some radioactive materials.” If detonation of a dirty bomb would occur in a place consider as a vacation destination such as Orlando, Florida which happens to be a dense populated tourist location, where we find many Theme Park attractions, a major international airport, and location for many manufacturing facilities and important businesses, it would create great chaos, mayhem and devastation. Reason for the major chaos and despair is because as I just explained a dirty bomb uses dynamite, and other explosives to scatter radioactive dust, smoke, and other materials in order to inflict bodily harm, destroy property, and finally cause overwhelming mayhem with a dose of radioactive contamination. Most of the danger of a dirty bomb would come from the blast of the explosion itself; this in metropolitan populated...
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