* Fire alarm test
This is a notification about fire alarm testing from my apartment’s leasing office, designing to mitigate the risk of fire. This control can prevent bad thing from happening.
The objective of this control is to make sure every alarm in every room is working; therefore every tenant can hear alarm and take appropriate action immediately when encounter fire. It ensures the safety of all tenants and maintains the good reputation of Mazza Grandmarc.
The risk designed to mitigate is the possibility that tenants are not aware of the fire when it starts. For example, when one tenant is sleeping, it is impossible for him to notice that the other side of the building is on fire if the alarm is broken. In that case, this tenant might lose the best time to leave and cause serious injury or death.
To operate this control, the staff in Mazza triggered the fire alarm and entered every unit and bedroom to test whether all alarms are work or not. In the mean time, they recorded it through a checklist. If it isn’t work, they will fix it as soon as possible. Therefore when an emergency happens, all tenants will be notified.
In order to test the control, I decided to look at the checklist first. If at the first check there are some alarm is broken, I will test whether the broken one is fix or not. Then I will set off the fire alarms and choose some rooms randomly at different areas of the apartment to test it.

* Lost and found in information desk at stamp At the information Desk provide the lost and found service for students and staff who lose items in stamp or campus. I believe this control is a one that promotes good things. The objective of this control is to help people quickly find the losing items, though it might not prevent people from losing stuffs. One risk that can be reduce from this control is that people who picked up some items might throw them away or just take them because it is hard to find a place to report and find the owner. The owner, at the same time, might find it is hard or hopeless to find some valuable things. Another risk can be reduced is that, within the information desk, the chance of conflicts between founder and owner, because all the procedures are systemized. To operate this control, staff at the information desk should post some signs both online and at the desk to inform students that this is a place that can handle lost and found. When receive items, the staff should document it in details. Another thing is that some valid ID should be provided to pick items. Staff is in charge with recording the owners’ ID number and contact information, and comparing their description with the one in the document. In the mean time, the staff should also sign their name. It is also important to set some time periods and methods to clean those losing items to ensure no one take them illegally. Finally, to test the control, I will first to conduct a survey to test whether students are aware of this lost and found system. Second, I will look through the documents and contact some owner randomly to see whether this record is true. Finally, I will look at the documents about how the remaining items were managed.