Laurance A Matthews Basic Communication Systems TDC 291 My presentation is about Business Continuity Risk Assessment. I attended a seminar taught by Mary Sandy and I found it both fascinating and disturbing. Mary is a Risk Assessment Consultant who works with small and large businesses. What a Business Continuity Risk Assessment Consultation provides is a plan for quick recovery to a company if disaster strikes. A consultant reviews every aspect of a company to determine where risks may
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hurricane left many people without family, shelter and food. Emergency preparedness is a key factor in helping with disasters and emergent issues that happen around the world. Emergency preparedness requires attention not just to specific types of hazards but also to steps that increase preparedness for any type of. It is important that all the population be aware of what to do in a disaster event or who to contact if they notice a particular event about to happen or happening. In the pre-event
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Vulnerability labels a condition or a set of conditions that create a weakness in systems or networks that can potentially be manipulated. Think of vulnerability as the susceptibility of a system or network to be attacked and possibly damaged or disrupted. Vulnerabilities take many forms: ▪ Easily guessable logon passwords ▪ Poorly configured access controls ▪ Exploitable programming flaws ▪ Incorrect security implementations ▪ Non-exploitable disruptive design flaws, such
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Dr. Quarantelli is a widely known scholar of the social science of disasters. His first involvement in the area dates back to 1949 when he participated in the first disaster field studies in the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) team. Quarantelli is also author and/or editor of 29 books as
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acid content of the air, i.e. Canadian lakes and Scandinavia Rationalization and Relativism - When everything turns into a hazard, nothing seems dangerous anymore. - “Ignorance is bliss.” - Risk society switches from hysteria to indifference. Boomerang Effect - Eventually risks and hazards catch up with those who create and profit from creating the risks and hazards. (Karma) Ecological devaluation and expropriation - Boomerang effect also affects media, money, property and legitimation
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awareness to employees and to get them to take responsibility. Instead of focusing on unsafe acts, a more effective approach would be to focus on how to identify and control hazards to eliminate injuries. The video focused on the unsafe acts and not why the unsafe acts happened and how to prevent recurrence. Was there a hazard analysis of the task/job that the worker was doing? Was the worker properly trained? Were proper procedures in place? Was the workstation and equipment properly designed
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The top 10 competencies the author cities in order to be an emergency manager in the 21st century are; The first competency is Comprehensive Emergency Management can also be described as framework. This is an overall understanding of all hazards in all phases. The second competency is Leadership and Team building, this allows the emergency manager to keep each situation under control and streamline the processes that are meant for successful management of individuals on a team or department. When
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First Name Surname Instructor Course Date Strategic Action Plan for a Hazardous Materials Incident The strategic action plan outlines the actions needed to accomplish the goal of containing a hazard of a dangerous gas leakage to a given environment. The action plan acts as a tool for social planning in an industrial setup during the cases of emergency. It outlines the necessary steps required, responsibilities of various agencies, risk assessment, the Local Emergency Response Plan, and appropriate
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Project 1 What legislation applies and complying with it Firstly, we should analyse the information on the legislation of the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) uses to regulate chemicals in New South Wales, national and international programs it is involved with and where additional information can be found on chemical use and disposal. Legislation apply to ABC Chemicals The EPA regulates the use and disposal of chemicals in NSW using the following legislative instruments: * the Environmentally
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the term hazard means when something is at a danger and risk . the term risk mitigation is defined as steps to decrease the effects. regulations are very important as without these regulations we can always make a lot of mistakes that can put people at risk . especially in the lab it can put people at a risk if regulations and these laws weren't followed .legalisation is the process of the production of laws , they are set out by the national , state or local organisations. if
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