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    * Differentiate between hazard and a risk. Hazard is anything that causes injury‚ disease‚ or death to humans‚ or damage to personal or public property‚ or deterioration or destruction of environmental components. Risk is suffering injury disease‚ death‚ or some other loss as a result of exposure to a hazard. (Boorse) * What risks from Figure 17-16 and Table 17-3 surprise you and why do they surprise you? In figure 17-3 the aids rate is what surprised me I didn’t think it would be that low. If

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    Chapter six The overall Planning Process- “well planned” and “well thought out” having good idea of the organization’s overall mission‚ as well as more specific written goals and carefully configured plan‚ can be important to an organization’s success. 2 Major component of Planning 1. Goals- a future targets or end result that organization wishes to achieve. 2. Plan- the devised for attempting to reach a goal. PLANNING- management function that involves setting goals and deciding how best to

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    telepathy on people around you‚ especially your beloved ones can destroy your social relations since you are able to read their minds‚ opinions. Imagine when you can read someone’s mind‚ you can also see what they don’t really like‚ even hate about you that they keep for themselves. After seeing that‚ your attitude towards them will change‚ such as your behavior would become ceremonious. The situation gets worse if you saw people’s secrets. What would happen if you couldn’t hold yourself and tell someone

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    ABSTRACT STRATEGIC CONTINGENCY PLANNING By Karen Scott-Martinet Fall 2006 The objective of this study was to develop a strategic contingency planning model to be used to fully incorporate emergency management and business continuity into organization structures. (For the purpose of this study‚ Emergency Management and Business Continuity were collectively referred to as “contingency planning.”) Presently‚ contingency planning is mainly done on an operational or tactical level. Current

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    It has long been recognized that a problem of moral hazard may arise when individuals engage in risk sharing under conditions such that their privately taken actions affect the probability distribution of the outcome In economic theory‚moral hazard is a situation in which a party insulated from risk behaves differently from how it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.. Economist Paul Krugman described moral hazard as: "...any situation in which one person makes the decision about

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    may open and start earning to be able to settle all outstanding liabilities. Disadvantage: The company will increase its debt. 2. Improve all residential lots and the area around the vicinity of the property and add compound facilities. This can be achieved through finishing the highway road leading to the site and adding amenities such as recreational facilities‚ clubhouse‚ etc. Advantage: More buyers will be encouraged to buy residential lots since everything they need are already in one

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    A behavior is known to be a response. When a behavior appears to no longer need direct interaction‚ psychologists believe the behavior is automatized. Different behaviors overtime can become automatized to many individuals. For example‚ writing and reading becomes automatic over time‚ for the reason that one simply learns how to do it. Other behaviors like playing an instrument‚ or painting become automatized over time as well. Automatization becomes a part of your daily lifestyle. For the reason

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    carefree and do many fun things. One of the activities you do is play war like you are right now. You hide behind trees and shoot imaginary guns at your friends as you try to win the game. Having fun is what this war is about‚ but not all children play war. Some live it to the full extent. In Africa there are wars going on involving child soldiers who are in real fighting with real guns shooting real people it is not a game. The people in Africa are horrified by this practice and the wars.

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    Terms related in Instructional Planning Instructional Planning Planning as a process begins with objectives and defined strategies‚ policies and detailed plan to achieve the desired results. Instructional planning is the ability of teacher to visualize and forecast into the future of the what‚ why‚ and how of the teaching-learning process. Systematic planning‚ developing‚ evaluating‚ and managing the instructional process based on principles of learning

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    HAZARD IDENTIFICATION‚ RISK ASSESMENT AND RISK CONTROL (HIRARC) In recent years‚ Hazard Identification‚ Risk Assessment and Risk Control (HIRARC) has become fundamental to the practice of planning‚ management and the operation of a business as a basic of risk management. The organizations that have carried out risk assessment at the work place have noted numerous changes in their working practice. Those who have already carried out risk assessment in their work‚ have reported positive changes

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