hazards and risks to both a staff member and a child whilst walking in a park. If they are walking past a pond or a lake it would be considered a hazard to the child 's safety. The risk with this is that the child could fall in and inhale or swallow dirty water, the child could end up with an infection or possibly drowning. This would be a hazard from the physical environment. The children should wear appropriate footwear to ensure that they do not slip or trip. All routes should be assessed by staff before the trip out to ensure they take the safest route possible for the children. This would also be considered a risk to the staff member, however the risk would not be as great because an adult would be more aware of the risk that the water poses and would know to keep a safe distance away. Poisonous berries could also be a hazard to young children as they may be unaware that the berries are actually poisonous. The risk is that the child may see the berries and think they are just…
A caveat to all the aforementioned measures of recidivism is that risk of recidivism is not equal across offenders. Offenders are a heterogeneous population, characterised by diverse individual, social, and contextual risks that impact their rates of reoffending. While some offenders present very high risks of reoffending, others present very low risks of reoffending. Consequently, the profile of offenders in contact with the corrections system necessarily influences recidivism (Bonta, Rugge,…
Teenagers are just juveniles, right? Then why did they gain all the names like brats, trouble makers, and so on. It may be because of their risky decisions like in the poem Icarus and Daedalus, where Icarus takes a choice to fly close to the sun. Nevertheless, can’t the problem also be the overcautious parents, because according reverse psychology everyone wants to do something that people tell them not to do. This not only leads to danger, but also unhealthy relationships because of the lack of…
Global risk is an event that can lead to huge negative impacts on the environment of most countries for a period of more than ten years. Environmental issues have been on the rise has they have been blamed for causing some of the worst problems based on various fields such as social, political and economic effects that are proving difficult to control (Nelson, 2003). Some key factors that are expected to change due to environmental stress include rise in water level and climate change that will…
danger regions. It traces how chance administration exercises will be performed, recorded, and checked all through the lifecycle of the undertaking and gives formats and practices to recording and organizing dangers by the Risk Manager or Risk Management Team. The task will utilize a negligible, subjective way to deal with danger administration including: • Periodic checking for the acknowledgment of dangers distinguished in the danger register • Notification of key partners if any…
For an organization to successfully enforce its security program, it must take risk analysis and risk management into consideration. A risk analysis will identify potential threats and vulnerabilities of the systems and any existing related risks. Applying threat modeling to analyze the security of an application by identifying, quantifying, rating, and addressing the threats is crucial for the organization to prevent and mitigate any threats. Since risk is calculated by multiplying the threat…
To protect my company assets from cyber threats/attacks many things must be taken into consideration because there is always a deeper internal issue in what we believe is secure. Risk assessment and risk management are both very important parts of planning to create a safe, secure work environment to protect my employees and company both on the inside and outside of the company. I would assure that my company conducts a risk assessment periodically. This helps to see what has failed in the past…
(a) (10 Marks) Explain the concepts of risk appetite and risk tolerance with examples. Answer Risk appetite and tolerance are commonly set-up by SPEND Ltd board and executive management, and they connected with the SPEND company’s strategy. Cited by Blunden and Thirlwell (2010:62) that risk appetite is the “amount and type of risk that an organisation is willing to take to achieve its strategic objectives [over a specified time horizon at a given level of confidence])”. Bansal (2015) took it…
Adolescent problem behaviors of delinquency, alcohol and drug abuse, and risky sexual behavior pose a major health risk as well as a threat to adolescents ' further psychosocial development (Melkman, 2015). Risk factors experienced early in life can expose youth to risk taking behaviors that may have negative impact and decrease the chances of them having a health and happy life has they transition from childhood into adulthood. Assessing these risk factors that youths are exposed to is…
This assignment will take the form of a risk assessment, assessing the possible risks that can be found in the home environment and its surroundings. It will define what is meant by the word risk and it will describe how one is identified. In the essay three risks from within the home will be examined and there will be a discussion as to how frequently these risks occur. Penultimately, this essay will present influential criminological theories to help explain the phenomenon of crime. Finally,…