Essays on Safety

- Expatriates compensation: Benefits and premiums of choice with rationale In compensating expatriates, an organization might consider several premiums and benefits. There are some factors to consider in choosing these premiums and benefits such as costs of living, access to healthcare, family care as well as foreign policies (Dowling, Festing & Engle, 2008). The benefits and premiums that I would choose include mobility premiums, hardship premiums, and healthcare and childcare benefits. These benefits and premiums are important because international expatriates travel to varied destinations thereby encountering different health and mobility risks (Martocchio, 2012). Considering that most expatriates work on voluntary ...

Riverside Electric

Safety and Health Written Policy: Riverside Electric

1. Goals and Objectives 1.1 The goals of the Safety and Health Written Policy of Riverside Electric is to orient employees on the pertinent standards and procedures governing fall hazards in the work setting; 1.2 The written policy aims to provide information on crucial personnel who would be responsible for the training and for ensuring that these procedures are clearly understood, communicated, and appropriately adhered to by all employees; 1.3 The objective of the written policy is to ensure that Riverside Electric conforms with the standards proposed and recommended by the Occupational ...

Describe the business? What do they do?

Riverside Electric, Inc. is reportedly a full service electric contractor that allegedly provides professional lighting solutions to diverse types of business organizations . According to its official website, the list of services include: lighting management programs; on-call services; Green Technology; Photometric Study; generator sales, installation and services; and electrical services . Being a full service electrical contractor, the organization boast of offering diverse electrical services from installation, maintenance, to repair. Likewise, their pricing strategy was disclosed to be competitive and could fit the budget of those who aimed to avail any of the needed services. Specifically, the organization itemized the following ...

Public Health and Health Care

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA is a federal agency of the government that is responsible for the implementation and enforcement of safety and health regulations and under the Department of Labor. The head of the agency is the Assistant Secretary of Labor of OSHA who shall be under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor, under the U.S. Executive Department (OSHA, 2013). The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 or otherwise known as the “OSH Act” was created for the purpose of prevent work place fatality or to prevent the ...

Abstract

This paper discusses how collaboration among various players in a health care delivery process can be promoted. It initially emphasizes on the manner in which various tasks in health care delivery are interconnected. Approaches that a health care administrator can apply to foster collaboration among clinicians are discussed. Collaboration is depicted as an important way to minimize human error in order to promote patient safety while also reducing organizational risks. The paper also discusses how physician leadership can encourage initiatives to promote reduction of organizational risks and patient safety.

Delivery of health care services in the current world is ...

The four fundamental principles of body mechanics and ergonomics are extending the spine in both directions; engaging the lower abs for protection of the low back, using legs to lift heavy objects, and protecting all joints.

During examination, various body mechanics should be practiced to ensure the safety of the patient and that of the physician. The proper table height should be used. This allows one advantage of increasing pressure without compromising body mechanics. The clothing worn should be comfortable, look professional and allow movement freedom. During massage, one should stretch and utilize varied strokes ( ...

Introduction

After a drug is developed, it is widely tested in the lab for efficacy and safety before it is tested on humans. Clinical trials are conducted using human subjects in five phases before the drug is approved. A drug may be approved for use and then adverse side effects are found during post marketing study in which case it is withdrawn from the market. This paper is an evaluation of cisapride, a drug developed in the 1980s and marketed between 1993 and 1999 before it was withdrawn from the market because of adverse side effects. Post marketing data ...

With the world population expected to hit the 9 billion mark by the year 2050, food production and security have become major issues of concern in social circles, both locally and internationally. As a way of responding to the ever decreasing ratio between the population and the viable arable land, the US government has come up with various strategies aimed at improving plenty supply of food for the American citizenry. The most notable examples of such strategies are the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the steady supply of fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides. These two approaches, coupled ...

The risk and crisis management for the tourist involves preparing and managing the effect of the crisis on tourists. There should be adequate measures to mitigate effects of risks in all tourist destination centres. Prevention or mitigation is a major risk and crisis management strategy which may be adopted to reduce the effects of risk. Use of SWOT analysis may help to prevent the risk from occurring. SWOT is an acronym which stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Preparedness is another strategy which may be used in risk and crisis management of tourists. This may involve having a ...

Introduction

It is true that the “will of the people” and the “law” at times conflict and this presents a tough decision to make for those whose responsibility is to enforce the law of the land. This conflict is experienced in various angles. It is a requirement for those in governing boards to recognize that people’s will is a necessary law of free government. The will of the people assumes that public employees and elected officials are people’s servants meaning that citizens are not their servants. Therefore, it is a requirement for these public employees and elected officials ...

The main reason for choosing this particular topic is to shed more light on the impacts of food borne diseases and outline the measure set in place to remedy the epidemics and encourage a healthy environment for the people. It is also among the recent events that have hit the headlines of the public health industry and people require to be well informed of this kind of emerging ethics.

Food borne diseases has cause millions of American to be either hospitalized or losing their lives. The trends of its effects become a public health burden thus demanding for immediate ...

Abstract

This paper will investigate whether or not artificial artificial affect obesity. Everything that is sweeten with sugar can now be sweetened with an artificial sweetener; and for pennies morewe can have all the pleasures of sweet with half the calories; and so we slip onto ignorant bliss unaware that we might be adding calories instead of taking off calories,

As Americans we have a phobia of hard work, so rather than reading the label on food we look for the word “diet.” Recent studies have shown that we might be putting on more weight with fewer calories from sugar. ...

Functions of the Federal, State, and Local Level during this Bioterrorism Event

Health organizations enforce regulations, such as isolation, that may be necessary throughout the emergency period. In case of a bioterrorism event, it is the responsibility of the federal health organizations to announce a state of health emergency. This helps to enlighten the public to be vigilant and aware of the health risks that exist. This has to be done promptly in case the threat involves water safety since water is a necessary consumable for all human beings. The state health organizations play an essential role in ensuring the bioterrorism threat is contained. This means containing the spread of the ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sets standards for motor vehicle safety at the federal level. The laws governing the safety standards are contained under Title 49 of the United States Code, chapter 301 and are referred to as Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). Part 571 (571.1 – 571.10) of the regulations stipulates the general safety standards. Subpart 571.101 – 571-500 states the standards for “Crash Avoidance”. It stipulates the safety standards for vehicle parts such as the controls and displays, tire specifications, hydraulic and braking systems, lamps, reflective devices among other standards for all the other vehicle parts. Part ...

- Introduction

Red Mole Construction Company, an emerging company in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts has been in operation for eight (8) years with about 500 employees consisting of both technical and administrative personnel. They have been involved in numerous constructions of school buildings and other government owned projects like cementing of roads. Aside from construction, they also offer conceptual planning, specifications, constructions estimates and the like.

Although upon incorporation, they claimed to have passed the safety management standards, they have never been formally audited by any safety auditing organization. This audit is a first for them in their ...

Abstract

The human asset employed by an organization plays a crucial role in influencing the efficiency and performance level of an organization. There are some factors which influence the working nature of employees. These factors have to be fully taken into consideration for the achievement of the set objectives. One the main factor is safety in the working environment. The safety of an employee is particularly significant in an organization. Every employer should ensure that the working environment is free from any safety problem. This helps to improve their performance. Safety and health of an employee help to improve ...

When companies at the end of a supply chain make changes in their orders, whether they add or reduce them, these changes are said to be progressively amplified for operations as they move back through the supply chain. The changes create some sort of a ripple effect throughout the length of the supply chain moving back from where those production decision changes have been made.

Bullwhip effect was the description coined by Procter and Gamble management when they noticed an amplification of information distortion as order information was relayed back up the supply chain (Buchmeister, et al, 2008). It ...

What need theory would explain why Samuel Gibson was unhappy despite his high income?

Gibson’s unhappiness can best be explained by the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory. According to Abraham Maslow, human beings can be categorized in different classes depending on the various desires in their lives. The categories can be classified into groupings and could necessarily be ranked in a hierarchy coming up with a hierarchy of needs. In this regard, human beings are usually are in pursuit of various needs. The reception of a particular class of needs preempt the need for the next category. ...

Introduction

Nursing is a very significant medical field, and it is served with the responsibility of defining the type and nature of treatment that is to be provided to a patient. In the contemporary nursing practice, nurses are expected to exhibit elements of leadership, a trait defined as a practice of social influence where a specific individual influence others in accomplishing a common task (Blais, 2006). Therefore, this paper explores elements leadership in nursing practice, and determines how such a culture can be propagated to provide quality nursing care.

Organizational Systems & Quality Leadership

B. Leadership Strategies:

The two unique strategies that enable a ...

The book is based on acceptable risk, ethical issues in international business, ethical treatment of employees, ethical issues in information technology and, marketing and disclosure of information. In the workplace, hazards can be found in different forms, including physical, chemical, psychological, biological, nonapplication of ergonomic principles and many others. Because of the number of hazards in most workstations and the general absence of consideration set to health and safety by many businesses, job-related diseases and accidents remain to be severe problems. Hence, trade unions have to insist that businesses regulate hazards at the inception and disallowing workers operate in ...

Introduction

Sharon Terry (2012) explained that a person’s Family health history can be gathered from a number of ...

Introduction

This paper discusses inventory management techniques used by firms. It also discusses techniques used by American Airlines to minimize costs and maximize profits.

Inventory management

Inventory management entails the processes and functions responsible for the maintenance, record keeping, reception and delivery of inventory and related products in any given business concern. The inventory management is one of the functions that any business organization should strategically address if is to achieve its profit maximization and costs minimization objectives. Inventory should be managed well so as to incur related management costs in the least way possible. Businesses employ different techniques and approaches ...

Question one: Explosives

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred at nine o’clock during the day in April 1995. It saw the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Two critical safety steps that were essential in the management of the disaster entailed the establishment of a safety perimeter that would limit the extent to which the first respondents could reach and the immediate withdrawal of the trapped bodies from the danger zones. The former essentially contributes in accountability and management of the respondents. It should be noted that the respondents’ desire to save anybody in the disaster must never ...

Sample portion of an emergency plan

Emergency planning is a very important part of public health intervention. It relates to keeping citizens safe when disaster occurs or developing a preventative strategy. This document will discuss the necessity of an emergency plan in communities and how they must be emerging from the background of a needs assessment. Fort Drum, New York is the community identified for this research and a sample emergency plan will be developed based on the evaluation of needs for that community.

Public Health: Emergency Planning Sample EOP

Introduction

Developing and maintaining emergency operation plans is a public health responsibility. Therefore, communities ought to always design measures either to ...

1. Read the end-of-chapter case in Chapter 12 of your text and do Internet research on NASA during both disasters, with particular emphasis on the disasters’ effects on the culture. Why do you feel it is so difficult to “sustain” cultural change in a large organization AFTER the immediate effects of a major event like Challenger or Columbia? What role should leadership play in working to “institutionalize” such cultural changes? 

It is difficult to sustain cultural change in an organization as large as NASA because aside from its various units being geographically disparate, which makes communication and coordination difficult, ...

Monitoring systems for possible risks is a major move towards risk prevention and recovery in most sensitive departments. It helps in avoiding serious injuries that may face the system if the concerned risk is not dealt with earlier in time. This paper seeks to discuss the aspect of continuous monitoring in the fire and security alarm management system of Alcon, an information technology based company (Natan, 2005).

Continuous monitoring as a security measure is defined as a means through which the awareness of the safety of an information system is made possible, noting its possible threats and seeking for ...

For each stated objective / learning outcome statement below explain which are attainable (and why) and which are measurable (and why). (Be aware that attainable need not necessarily be readily measurable and those objectives that may not be easily attainable could possibly be measurable.

1. There will never be any accidents on this job.

Accidents are unavoidable. They are not anticipated nor expected to happen and therefore it is impossible to predict whether or not a workplace will have an accident or not. This makes this particular objective unattainable.

Although it seems that this particular objective is measurable, the ...

Computer ethics has a very important professional responsibility of serving the public interest as well as welfare to further improve the understanding public of the science of computers. Computer ethics should therefore take personal responsibility in maintaining high standards of integrity, honesty, and due diligence in the way they conduct education, research, and other professional duties. They should also be concerned with the condition of health and safety relating to the consumers, co-workers, and the community. Intellectual property is defined as original expressions of symbols, as well as words and ideas that represent the services or products of a ...

Introduction

Believe it or not, a dramatic technological revolution has transformed the global environment of the 21st century. Though this era has witnessed many triumphs in technology, the most transforming technological event is the Information Technology revolution. The impact of computer based information technology, one of the most known manifestations in technology, is considered both as a boon and a bane. Apparently, computers have gripped our life firmly and its wings are impacting all aspects of human interactions and relationships. At the same time, we have to be globally competitive in providing quality product, service, and delivery. So, due to ...

1. Project management is often defined as a process of applying managerial tools, knowledge and skills in order to achieve the project goal and to fulfil the requirements set by the customer within a predefined schedule and at a preset cost. The main benefit of the project management is customer satisfaction. It is achieved through the completion of a project in full, on time, in a quality manner and within a predefined budget (Gido, & Clements, 2009). In my career I have often relied on project management in order to define project objectives and to design a plan for project ...

Disaster and emergency management protocols are a vital need, not only for public governmental entities, but also for private companies as well. Organizations that lack emergency management plans, or whose plans fall short of the “best practices” that have been identified for emergency management, may thrive in the short term, but are headed for a date with the major news media. Sometimes both the public entities and private companies fail to ensure proper disaster and emergency management protocols, leading to unnecessary tragedy, in the form of death and damage to property. One example of this is the Bhopal disaster ...

Introduction

The logistics management involves the supply chain management that is charged with the responsibility of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient forwarding and the reverse flow of goods and the storage of the goods. It involves all the processes that take place from the time a good or service is produced to the time it will be consumed by the consumers. These must all be done in order to meet the use requirements (Lichtenstein, 1996). There are several risks that are involved during the time a given commodity is being transported from the point of production to the ...

Nursing: Public Health Safety

Answering Questions after Article Review Question One- Does this scenario represent a public safety or public health issue? Further, public health education would have been worthwhile in preventing the accident with regard to being careful on roadways being a personal precaution because road accident is a public health issue. Public safety is applicable in keeping dogs away from human traffic on the road ways. However, the accident could have been avoided had the boys been more alert to what happens on streets. Again speeding cars, dogs dashing out unexpectedly are public health safety measures implemented on highways for the ...

It’s Safety to Human Consumption of Milk.

BOVINE SOMATROTOPIN

Bovine somatotropin abbreviated as bST is a hormone found in the cattle. It is a growth hormone that is produced by the pituitary glands of the cattle. The hormone is important in the functionality of the body as it is mainly concerned with growth and development of the body. This hormone is used by cattle keepers to increase the milk production in dairy cows where the dairy cows are injected with the hormone regularly. Biotechnology has made it possible to manufacture the hormone which its ...

Safety in the industry is as much important as production itself. It underscores because industrial safety system, usually known as Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS), is an integral part of most industries. Industrial safety is targeted at providing protection against menaces, risks and hazards which can occur in different forms, in the industry. It is, however, not intended for controlling only the hazard. Process control systems are rather provided for controlling the hazards. This essay takes a brief look at what safety in the industry is and also its correlation to public health. Virtually every industry has its ...

Introduction

Many people are affected by maritime safety. A safe and efficient shipping network determines a significant part of the global population safety. The international management code for the safe operation of ships and pollution prevention (ISM code) was adopted in 1993 and was made compulsory in 1998. This code sets up safety-management goals and calls for safety management system to be established by the ship-owners or ship managers. Further, the company is required to develop a way of achieving the set goals; which include making available necessary resources required to offer support for the set objectives. The code also ...

The occupational safety and health act of 1970 is an act enacted in the United States. The law was enacted to ensure that workers in any company are safe and healthy when engaged in their daily duties. The law provides for compensation of any employee who is injured, dies or is wrongfully restricted from duty if the cause is in the line of duty. In the recommendations to the manager of Elora Jean & company, safety policy in the company will contain the following issues. Training of employees on the hazards that are likely to occur in the course of ...

The nursing curriculum is designed to offer the nursing students the knowledge and skills required for handling specific situations of their career, especially based on the required expertise to handle the nursing discipline. Nursing textbooks are written by experienced individuals in the field of nursing and the learners are expected to achieve specified results by the end of their trainings. However, there exist several significant differences between the things that are taught in nursing textbooks, published literature, hospitals’ policies and procedures, and actual practice. The orthodox view of teaching at the university level is that, during the lecture courses, ...

Abstract

Firefighters coupled with other emergency responders are evidenced by numerous dangers within their daily operations. As such, the various firefighters are exposed to smoke, extremely deadly temperatures stress within the operative environment coupled with issues entailing the personal protective gear. Despite the notion that the varied fatalities reported are associated with burn and smoke inhalation, recent studies have shown increased deaths as a result of cardiovascular events. Studies within the firefighting frontier have revealed that cardiac related issues have accounted for the highest number of non-incident firefighter deaths. United states fire administration (USFA) coupled with the National fire protection ...

DQ 12: Information Management

Internal and external data in safety program Safety programs are planned according and regard to the data collected. Data collection can be either internal or external depending with the safety program target. The internal data collection is found from the reports and record of the organization. The external data collection is from outside the organization. Data collection is always subjected to a specific study that is aimed in the safety of the group investigated. The subject of the program and the place are the determinant of the type or form of the data to be used. If the safety ...

Management

FOR : ALL MANAGERS RE : MINE SAFETY ISSUES This Memo serves as our guideline that will be implemented for the purpose of establishing mine safety policy in the company. In order to prevent injuries and death of the workers, the company has to look at the safety issues differently and improve on the codes of practice, protection equipment and regular maintenance of equipment of the miners. As managers of the company, you are tasked to ensure that safety initiatives are being implemented in the company to protect the workforce. There is an expectation that miners should refuse to ...

Introduction of the OSH Act

OSH Act was proposed due to the accidents that were being experienced in the industries. The industry- specific safety statutes were still being enacted at the period. Most of these statutes protected employees under the federal agency contractors, and those that dealt with maintenance. The health and safety issues were also limited to a number of unions that represented workers that were in hazardous industries. The most common hazardous industries back then were electrical industries, mining, construction and auto. As the incidents of industrial accidents rose in the late 1960’s, there was a need to come up with ...

Report On Security Survey

Abstract Security is one of the necessary merit products that are offered by the government to the public. It is essential for a safe neighborhood. It is the responsibility security departments to improvise methods through which security can be ensured in every homestead (Broder, 2006). Ideally, the security agencies are responsible for laying out a security strategy that they can use to make it easier to monitor security in the areas that they monitor. A security survey and report with recommendations are necessary for the security agencies to carry out their activities efficiently.

Introduction

This report aims at analyzing the ...

- Process evaluation is measured differently than the outcome evaluation. In process evaluation, changes in beliefs, attitude and knowledge are discussed and in outcome evaluation, changes in preventive behavior, death and injury related morbidity is analyzed. - Process evaluation focuses on the development and implementation of a program while outcome evaluation focuses on the positive and negative results of a program. - Process evaluation recommends the short-term changes and outcome evaluation recommends the long-term changes. - Process evaluation is less costly than the outcome evaluation, which can be really costly .

Who is responsible for safety program evaluation?

Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for the ...

Objective

Fibre reinforced plastics (FRP) have demonstrated suitability for construction projects due to their strength and durability, while weighing very little. The attributes of FRPs were examined as well as, their applicability in hot, desert temperatures for road barriers and other road safety units.

Background – Composite Materials

Strength and stiffness are the main mechanical properties fibres add to composite materials. The fibres must have uniform diameter, similar strength between each fibre, and very large length-to-diameter ratio. Crystals within the fibre that are aligned with fibre length create high tensile strength. Fibres need to have air space and fibre packing needs to be random ...

General Motors (GM) has a new CEO - Mary Barra. She has joined the multinational at a time when it is facing a crisis for selling cars with faulty ignition for a decade, which has resulted in accidents and deaths. Considering there is a global outcry, she must save the reputation of the firm by addressing the ignition problem. This will be crucial for her legacy as a leader. To remedy the situation, Barra accepts responsibility on behalf of GM instead of blaming her predecessors. She also appoints a global vice-president to deal specifically with safety issues and pledges ...

Introduction

The topic on genetically modified foods has evolved into one of the most equivocal topics that have generated a contentious debate across various settings all over the globe. This can be accredited to the much hypothesized repercussions of genetically modified foods. Worth noting is the fact that researches carried out in the recent past such as the much hypothesized studies on the effects of genetically modified corn pollen on butterflies have radicalized the public to respond differently regarding the issues on global warming. In fact, it is as a result of such researches that the federal government has established ...

The component of SAFEOPS is an essential part of human beings since the disasters and accidents are always the order of the day. There are disasters that come because of accident, intentional or natural, thus, affecting social and economic wellbeing of people. The disasters may lead to physical injury, death, damage to the property, emotional problems, destruction of infrastructure; in addition, it affects the running of the administration of the organization. Therefore, the managers are people who need to respond to these issues before it happens and even after it has occurred so that they can reduce the impact ...

Business Structures & Taxation Law

Summary In the course of this paper, the prospects and business structures will be examined for the band Black Narcissus, a five-piece death metal band that is currently assessing its future as a brand. There are many different factors contributing to their current success, and their immediate and long-term prospects as a band, which will be evaluated based on current taxation law and the conditions already facing the band’s future. Already, several issues have presented themselves that must be solved: - The issue of writing credit between the two creatives of the band and three remaining band members ...

GM Recall and its Implications to the 2st Century Management

Introduction In every business, challenges are bound to occur. One of the challenges bound to occur is customer complaints. Whether in the hotel industry, communications industry or the banking industry, customers will come to complain about one thing or another. However, what makes the difference is the manner in which an organization addresses the customer complaints. For some companies, customer complaints provide the best opportunity to carry out self-examination and address the issues raised; however, for other businesses, customer complaints are normal experiences hence business continues as usual. This is not the best way to run a business especially ...

Warehouse health and safety risks

In an organization, the employer and the employees are bound by the regulation that enforces the health and the safety of the working place. In it, every player in the warehouses has the responsibility and duties to take care off in prevention of the risk that may arise. The employer has the responsibility of maintaining health, safety and the welfare of the employees. This is in the provision of health and safety policies, safety equipment and training of the staffs. Talking of the employees, they have duties of ensuring the safety equipment are provided with the training on safety ...

Motorcyclists and passengers requirement to wear helmets

With the increasing prices of fuel around the globe, motorcycles are seen by many as a perfect alternative to automobiles due to its fuel-efficiency, agility and easy parking. Most countries around the world, including the United States, have a huge motorcycle following due to this efficiency. However, while these alternate vehicles are indeed practical, the statistics of deaths related to motorcycle accidents have increased greatly each year especially in cases where in both the rider and the passenger are found without helmets. Where is society headed given the growing trend of motorcycle related deaths as many still prefer this ...

Introduction

The healthcare sector has changed significantly due to the rise of chronic and lifestyle diseases, and better educated clients who demand quality services. To meet these challenges nurses have embraced evidence based care to improve quality by enhancing aspects such as safety and efficacy of interventions. One of the most important aspects of delivering quality nursing care is ensuring that nurses have the necessary skills, knowledge and attitude needed to improve care. Giving nurses these skills, knowledge and attitude is the key goal of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) program. This essay evaluates the clinical management ...

- In order to establish the basis of this interview the first question that I would like to ask is do you think air traffic should be privatized? - Do you think that politics is affecting the running of air traffic controller hence privatization being the solution to this problem? - What are some of the contentious issues that you think affect the controllers of air traffic? - Will privatization lead to the laying off of controllers and if so how is this going to affect the economy if it does? - Do you think that privatization of the air ...

In spite of the fact that significant milestones have been made in airline technology, cases of many commercial airlines landing on the wrong airports continue to be on the rise. Although cases of commercial aircraft landing on the wrong airfield are not very common, this does not imply that they are unheard of in the United States. Commercial flights in the United States landed or began to land erroneously in other airports several times in the last two decades. However, the actual figures could be higher than the ones reported by the media and the relevant authorities. There are ...

Introduction

There are many resemblances that can be observed in magnetic and electric phenomena. A magnet comprised of north and south poles which are opposite to each other. The opposite poles attract and likewise repel each other. A magnet has principle property to influence the surrounding space. This surrounding effect of a magnet is known as a magnetic field. Magnetic fields consist of lines of force and force of attraction and repulsion that travel/or move along the lines. The developed forces depend on strength and distance apart the poles. Figure 1: Magnetic lines of force for bar magnet A magnet ...

A health professional has the responsibility of ensuring maximum safety for all individuals within an organization regardless of their gender and backgrounds. Based upon the scenario the investigation process requires adequate resource for it to be effective. Therefore, the health officer is obliged to take into consideration the importance of setting up a communication process that would facilitate identification of potential or possible causes for the employees’ dizziness and feeling sick. This would increase the chances of conducting effective and proper evaluation of workers allegations. It is fundamental to state the major reasons for conducting an investigation. This normally ...

Introduction

A lot of things can happen to a ship after it has departed from a seaport and left to travel against the waves of the ocean on its own. This is where the purpose of maritime safety and risk management comes in. Its purpose is to educate officers and crew members of a ship on how to react to certain risks, or in the worst case scenario a certain crisis. In general, the objective of a maritime safety and risk management is to ensure that the current maritime risk does not escalate into a crisis, and if it already ...

ABSTRACT

Health and safety are the utmost priorities in any fitness center. Although newer researchers emphasize on natural environment and green surroundings for a fitness center to boost the healthy effects of it, however, several recent incidents and observations have exposed some common hazards and issues that can negatively impact the health and safety of the members of the fitness center. This paper looks into the general problems and then analyses some cases of hazardous affects caused to the members directly or indirectly due to the natural surroundings.

Introduction

Several researches show that the ability to work and the average performance ...

Introduction

Human right activism is the act of campaigning to familiarize and protect the rights of people within a country or internationally. Human right activism has been a lead goal of social workers and Non-governmental Organizations within American and all over the world. It encompasses all manner of protecting human rights and life. On the social aspect, human right activism tends to speaks on behalf of the oppressed who are the casualties of barbaric authorities of their motherland. In so say, human activism is identified as a unique career that is ordained respect for the risk they are exposed to. ...