...Mohammad M ESL51.071 M Due: September 23, 2014 E1: Smoking Essay The Hazards of Smoking Why do people smoke when they know it’s bad for them? Some people smoke for pleasure, while others do it because of stress. Teenagers smoke because their friends influence them. However, people should be more aware of the risks of smoking. People should not smoke for three reasons. One reason is smoking requires a personal budget because it costs money in several ways. First, some people pay up to $12 per day for cigarettes, so the total amount could be as much as $4, 380 per year. However, in that way, they spend their money without benefits. Another way that smoking is expensive is it costs people to pay for cleaning their clothes, car, furniture, and home because the smell of smoking easily sticks to everything around smokers. One more way it’s expensive is the cost health treatments caused by smoking. This is very expensive because people who smoke are more vulnerable to sickness, and they require medical checkups more often. The second reason that people shouldn’t smoke is it is unclean and even dangerous because it causes bad breath, stains the teeth and makes them yellow with time, and can start fires. These can be permanent effects that the smoker doesn’t want. Also, it affects house, hair, and clothes smell because of its bad odor. When people visit, they immediately notice the smell of smoke in the house. Furthermore, smoking causes burns on carpets, furniture, and car seats...
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...Table of Contents Preface 1 Helpful Telephone Numbers and Useful Information 2 1.0 Scope and application 3 1.1 General Objectives 3 1.2 Comprehensive safety programme 4 a. Programme Responsibilities 4 b. Implementation and Maintenance 6 1.4 Record Keeping 7 2.0 Standard Operating Procedures 8 2.1 General Safety Guidelines 9 2.2 Eating, Drinking, and Smoking 10 2.3 Housekeeping and Maintenance 10 2.5 Spills and Accident Reporting 11 Spills 11 2.6 Accident Reporting 12 2.7 Audits 12 3.0 Standard Laboratory Control Measures 13 3.1 Hygiene Practices 14 3.2 Ventilation 15 3.3 Safety Equipment 15 3.4 Hand wash Stations 16 3.5 Eyewash Stations 16 3.6 Fire Extinguishers 17 3.7 Flammable Storage Cabinets 17 4.0 Emergency And Medical Procedures 18 4.1 Basic Emergency Response 18 4.2 Controllable Release 19 4.3 Injury and illness 19 Preface The nature of the tasks being undertaken at the Ballistics Unit of the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine presents a number of hazards. The risks associated with these hazards can be greatly reduced if appropriate precautions and practices are adhered to. To manage these risks, the Ballistics Unit has developed this general safety manual. The intent of this manual is to provide the guideline for the development and implementation of a comprehensive safety programme which will assist staff in maintaining a safe working environment. Responsibility for the development, implementation...
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... | |Lead IV Sampled? (Y/N) |Pre-Issue IV Date: | |Assignment Title: |Assignment Ref: 3a | |Hazards in settings | | |Issue Date |End Date: |Actual Hand-in Date: | | |Week beginning 01/12/2014 |Week beginning 26/01/2015 | | | |Unit/ AC |Assessment Criteria |Achieved |Evidence Location|Comments/feedback from assessor | |Ref | | | | | |P1 |Explain potential hazards and the harm |Yes/No | | | |...
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...Management is responsible for overseeing all health and safety risks, which includes fire. We must take every measure to prevent such an event occurring and provide a fire emergency plan detailing evacuation procedures. Management is required to identify this type of hazard, assess the risk, perform risk control procedures to eliminate or reduce the risk, then review control procedures. Consult and update team members with this information. They also have a primary duty of care to ensure the health and safety of workers and associates. • Identify any publication, standards, and codes of practice that will assist you. Detailed information can be found in the WHS Act 2011 in sections 17 and 19. Section 17 A duty imposed on a person to ensure health and...
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...information to his audience. Analyzing Second-hand Smoke – Ignored Implications by Dr. Zahid Naeem Dr. Zahid Naeem’s article addresses the hazards of smoking and emphasizes the dangers of second-hand smoke. Dr. Naeem writes his article primarily to address parents of young children and current smokers by providing information in a statistical format. He quantifies the dangers that second-hand smoke poses to the physical health of those who come into contact with it. While a very informative article, one cannot overlook the slight element of persuasion used by Dr. Naeem to urge smokers, if not to quit smoking altogether, to at least be courteous to those who may be affected by second-hand smoke. Dr. Naeem’s article covering second-hand smoke can be summarized into three main ideas. The first point that Dr. Naeem articulates is the magnitude of complications that smoking and second-hand smoke can cause (Naeem, 2015, para 1). Secondly, Dr. Naeem expresses that second-hand smoke is every bit as hazardous as smoking is itself (Naeem, 2015, para 3). Lastly he describes how children are more susceptible to the possible complications of second-hand smoke than adults (Naeem, 2015, para 6). Dr. Naeem uses multiple strategies to develop his arguments in the article. Dr. Naeem attempts shock the reader by illustrated the dramatic consequences of smoking. He cites major health issues, which can often be life-threatening, that the...
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...serious need of repair. Project Document: Risk is a powerful force in innovative organizations for the obvious reason that it means the future outcomes of decisions are uncertain and, less obviously, because it can foster decision biases like loss aversion and over-optimism. The construction or retrofitting of a school building is a valuable educational opportunity with the potential to further strengthen community ownership of the school and demonstrate hazard-resilient techniques that can be replicated in homes and other buildings. Every school must be constructed as a safer school and existing unsafe schools must be retrofitted to be disaster resilient. The Education for All will not be achieved without the construction of safer and more disaster resilient education facilities. At a time when the frequency and magnitude of extreme climatic events is rising, a growing number of the world’s school-going children are increasingly exposed to earthquakes, wildfires, floods, cyclones, landslides and other natural hazards. For example: • The Sichuan earthquake (2008) killed more than 7,000 children in their schools and an estimated 7,000 classrooms were destroyed. • The cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh (2007) destroyed 496 school buildings and damaged 2,110 more. • The Super Typhoon Durian (2006) in the Philippines caused $20m USD damage to school, including 90-100% of school buildings in three cities and 50-60% of school buildings in two other cities. • The earthquake in Pakistan...
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...new framework to cultivate good safety habits in individuals in order to create a strong safety culture in the workplace. It requires stakeholders to implement reasonable measure to ensure the safety and health of employees and everyone affected by the environment. Purpose of OHS Act Body Beautiful KAPLAN CITY CAMPUS 8 WILKIE ROAD, LEVEL 5, WILKIE EDGE Singapore 228095 Importance for Safety Management General • Transfer of information between trainers • Injury due to impaired equipments • Issues realating to employees’ delivery • Electrical equipment hazards • Hazards relating to contracted services Exercise Area • Health risk relating to members’ over exertion • Injury due to improper use of equipment • Risk of infection from unhygienic conditions • Exercise machinery obstructing the walkway • Trip hazards due to obstacles on...
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...Health Hazards in the IT profession When you tell someone you are in the IT profession they usually come back with something like “oh so you get to sit around all day playing on a computer!” The truth is there are lots of risks with “sitting around playing on a computer”. Being at a desk and in front of a computer can be just as hazardous as being a construction worker or a mover for a moving company. There are health hazards that go along with sitting all day. Blood clots from lack of movement, the lighting of the computer screen which cause headaches and eye strain. With a busy work environment, often time there is no time for a nice long lunch hour which leads to grabbing something quick and usually not the healthiest on the menu. This is just to name a few of the problems with being an IT. It’s hard to believe an industry such as Information Technology can actually be hazardous to your health. Did I mention stress? Although there are a lot of physical issues that come with the IT profession, I would like to focus on the stress of the IT profession. It was not long ago that I worked in an office environment and had no idea what it took to be an “IT person”. I was one of the many that complained about how long it took to get and IT person to look at my computer to see what was wrong with it. Until now, I had no idea. With the tighter budgets caused by the economic strain, there has been a problem with understaffing in the IT field. Unfortunately, understaffing...
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...On a mission, each of us must comply with the host nation, with Federal, State and Local environmental laws and Regulations. Protecting the environment is everyone responsibilities. The best way we can comply with this is identifying the different areas such as: Areas of environmental concerns, mission- related environmental risks and Potential effects of environmental factors on missions and operations. 1-. Areas of Environmental Concerns: A-.Hazardous Waste (HW): Units must • Have a collection and turn in point • Keep a cleanup, report and document any hazardous spill properly. • Transport all HW according to local and installation procedures. B-.Hazardous material (HM): Units must • Report the location of any unexploded ordnance. • Conduct maintenance involving that HM only after being trained. • Maintain a current inventory and a material safety data sheet (MSDS). • Support the Installation Recycling Program. • Remove materials such as expended brass, communication wires, concertina, booby traps, and propellant charts from training sites. • Conduct police calls to collect and dispose of solid-waste materials (trash). • Dispose of liquid waste from kitchens, showers and baths properly. • Avoid entering terrain drainage areas with vehicles unless the area is dry and the ground will support such activities. C-. Noise Pollution; Units must • Avoid tactical maneuvers in erosion susceptible areas and refill fighting positions. • Verify range restrictions...
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...Risk assessment P3 Assignment: carry out a risk assessment in a health and social care setting. M2: Assess the hazards identified in the health and social care settings. D1: Make a re-commendation in relation to the identified hazards to minimize the risk to the service user group. For this assignment I am going to carry out risk assessment that can occur in child nursery playground these includes: * Slide- cars, trike * water table * open gate * slippery floor, trips and fall * smaller toys laying around * banned swing IDENTIFIED HAZARD | RISK M2 | CONTROL D1 | Slide- cars, trike (broken slide, broken toys cars and broken wheels on the trike) the children can come in to contact with this toys and they get injured. | Likelihood 1 | Severity 2 | Risk 1X2 =2 | This hazard would affect the both staffs and children but mainly the children. So for this hazard to be controlled or prevented, all staffs are to looking after and supervising the children and also they should always ensure that all toys used for playing is be inspected and maintained regularly by the person in charged. Another way this hazard can be prevented or controlled is if playing toys were to be made with rubber to prevent serious injuries if the kids were to by any chance come in contact with any broken toys. Children playing outside nursery should be supervised at all times by a member of staff to ensure that the kids don’t hurt them while playing with other toys available...
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...Risk prediction in the chemical industries can be presented in a way it allows easy judgemental of the acceptability of risks. This helps to reduce hazards in chemical process plant operations. Risk can be defined as the likelihood of an accident or unwanted event occurring at a particular period of time. Hazard can be a situation that can cause damage or injury. As it is known it is not possible to have ZERO risk in any operation. So it is highly important risk are identified, controlled if possible and therefore reduced. Risk Assessment is defined as the process of examining the chances of a hazard in a workplace. For example the hazards in a flare gas recovery system can be analysed for possible hazards to workers and the public. The stages of risk assessment include: * Identification of the hazard which can be based on past events. There are also tools like HAZOP, FMEA, SWIFT etc to determine any potential hazard. * Next is the frequency analysis which gives an estimate of how likely an accident can occur. In the case of a flare gas recovery system, it may be how likely is it to have the release of gas into the flare header due to equipment failure. Fault tree analysis and even tree analysis are mostly used for this estimation. They are both use to determine the probability and frequency of an incident (hazard). The results from these are used to analysis the acceptability of a particular chemical plant activity. * After frequency analysis is the consequences...
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...1. Define Risk to a business in your own words - The risk to a business would be considered as anything that would keep business from happening as business as usual. A risk could come from natural occurances to cyber attacks design to cripple the process of how a business function. 2. What would cause some Risk to be greater than others - how would you measure or score these Risks? The greater risk would be if the attack can be rebound from. I would have to rate a natural event as a greater risk especially if it is a flood or mud slide. Cyber attacks also are a great risk to operations because client information maybe stolen and this can cause life changing results. I would rank them at the top as far as damage to recovery goes. 3. In the technology growth we are in today - list 3 of the Risks that business or individuals face by doing business via the Internet. Identity thief, malware attacks, and viruses 4. How prepared are you for a disaster? How prepared do you feel most businesses are for a disaster? What could be done to minimize the effect of a natural or man-made business outage? I think that I am prepared for the risk as a use will face with the help of firewalls, anti-virus technologies, and backup of important data specific to me. Most businesses are well prepared for risk because this is somewhat the norm of doing business these days. They all use some sort of backup to systems and are deploying the help of IT departments from 3rd party outsources. 5...
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...prevention is a local and national necessity with a strong institutional basis for implementation. Institutions that develop policy, legislative and institutional frameworks for disaster risk reduction and can track the progress through specificied and measurable indicators that have greater capacity to control risks. They are also able to manage widespread consensus for involvement and compliance with disaster risk control measures in all sectors of a society Action 2: Outline, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance pre-caution. The start of reducing disaster risk and promoting a culture of disaster resilience lies in the understanding of the hazards. The knowledge extends to the social, physical, the environmental and economic vulnerabilities to disasters that most communities suffer from, and of the ways in which hazards and proneness are changing in the short and long term. The understanding is followed by action taken on the basis of...
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...Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) There are pros and cons to a BYOD policy. Each company must carefully weigh both sides of the situation before making a decision. As the business world moves forward, there may be more companies using BYOD. There are some benefits to a BYOD policy. Having employees use their own devices can save the company money. Instead of buying devices for everyone, they can just buy them for the ones that need them, and the ones that work on projects that need more security. BYOD could also lower maintenance and IT costs, as users would be responsible for their own devices. Since storage would be accomplished via cloud storage, there would not be much risk to the company concerning lost files or shared files. Many users would probably welcome the chance to work on their own devices instead of company devices. Users may feel more comfortable using their own device which might lead to a more productive employee. There are still many risks involved with BYOD. The biggest risk is the possibility of lost files or someone loaning their own device to someone else. It is not uncommon for someone to pass their device around to different people. Another risk is that with BYOD, the company has to support several different brands of devices and also different platforms. The company may have to structure their company to accommodate this. The company also doesn’t have control over what items the employee puts on their device...
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...To be able to explain why written emergency plans are drafted It is best to plan for the worst when it comes to an emergency. The HCF leaders duties is to develop a written disaster plan that explains the duties of staff and making this plan available to the staff for crisis preparation. To ensure that the safety and well being of patients are certain during emergencies. The development plan must be assigned to personnel who are familiar with the facility. Depending of the community and location. For example, California prepares for an earthquake, Florida for hurricanes, and Montana for snowstorms. It is also required by the Joint Commission to have the HCF to have a hazard vulnerability analysis under the EC 4.10. (Environmental Control). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations an National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and standards must also be taken into account as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response to biological and Chemical terrorism. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has also issued certain guidelines for design and construction of facilities in locations where there is a recognized potential for certain natural disasters. This plans must provide a process to: Initiate a plan HCF role with community-wide emergency response agencies, including who is in charge, Notify external authorities Notifying Identify and assign personnel during emergencies ...
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