Consider the colours that are presently used for emergency vehicles. What do you think are the reasons that those colours are used? What are their advantages and disadvantages? Malaysia currently use red colour as the colour for emergency vehicles. Red colour is being chosen as the colour for the emergency vehicles strobe lights is because of the night vision capability by using this colour. It cannot be denied that red colour is more easily to be notice if compared to other colour. Red colour
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Emergency Cart This is also known as crash carts are found in all hospitals and emergency rooms and contain supplies and equipment necessary to treat life-threatening situations. Emergency Cart is a wheeled cabinet or chest of drawers that contains all of the equipment necessary for emergency resuscitation. This is conveniently position throughout hospitals and other medical facilities so that they can be quickly accessed in an emergency. Functions: The function of a crash cart is to provide
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nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials. According to the International Business Times (Australia) "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic disaster.” (IBT‚ 01) On April 2011 The Nuclear Institute rated the disaster a Level 7 “Major Accident” on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The International Nuclear Event Scale How the reactors were damaged An earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on a Richter Scale initially damaged
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Weight Watchers - a simple‚ new approach to weight loss. Weight Watchers has helped millions of people around the world to lose weight by using a healthy and rewarding system (WWI‚ 2013). This company was founded by Jean Nidetch in 1963‚ and today the company operates in 30 different countries (Nordqvist‚ 2009). There is a whole world of temptations out there and Weight Watchers makes it possible for anyone to be able to control that desire to eat anything you want and keep the pounds off. They use
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continuous feedback. It is a process – Each message is part of a process and does not occur in isolation. This means that the meaning attached to a message depends on what has happened before and on the present context. For example‚ your boss’ response to your request for a promotion will depend on your past relationship with him‚ as well as his mood at that particular moment. It involves a sender and a receiver of information – Any Communication starts with a sender of a message and requires
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1(a): Disembarkation and Transit processes Passport and visa requirements General immigration procedures Once passengers have arrived from their journey to Heathrow airport‚ they go through immigration and immigration officers will check their passports and visas to make sure that only those who have a right to enter the country do so. The immigration process can be extremely quick if the flight is between two European Union countries. However‚ non-EU resident enter through a different channel
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Earthquakes Natural disasters‚ such as earthquakes‚ hurricanes and cyclones‚ floods‚ and tornadoes are some of the traumatic experiences that may cause posttraumatic stress disorders. This type of disorders and other disaster related psychological problems are prevalent after natural disasters. As a result it is important to analyse those individuals that develop psychological problems especially to prepare and plan interventions both in the short and long term after disaster (Coşkun‚ Coşkun‚ 2000
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Chernobyl Disaster Chernobyl nuclear plant is one of the biggest disasters in history! It happened on April 26‚ 1986. It was a nuclear radiation disaster. About 4‚000 people died. All the survivors suffered from the radiation side affects for the rest of there lives. This also ruined the environment! The nuclear plant exploded exactly at 1:23 A.M. The explosion killed two people. Then radiation started pouring out of the reactor. There were 134 emergency workers that got involved trying
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When you deliberate on a disaster‚ it becomes clear that any such event has three phases to it. Initially‚ there are antecedents that lead to the disaster. When enough antecedents have accumulated‚ the disaster occurs at that specific tipping time. Finally after the disaster has happened the final phase of resolutions occurs. The resolutions are steps that the society attempt to implement to revert the effects that the event has produced. Consider the Deepwater Horizon disaster that happened on July
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An earth quake can be described as a shaking of the Earth’s crust. It is mainly a movement of the whole crust that originates in the center of the earth. Earthquakes happen when the underlying rock suddenly shakes or breaks off. The moving of the underlying rock causes the surface rocks to slide and‚ as a result‚ leads to the earthquakes. Earthquakes can be extremely disastrous and cause a lot of damage in the place where they happen. The earthquake can happen once or happen as a series. This depends
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