In Risk Chapter 9 Summary

You will look at the protecting factor which is a factor that will reduce the risk and help stop the risk becoming a reality. It 's not about getting rid of the risk but helping people to understand the potential consequences and risks that come with day to day living and using the protecting factors to reduce them as much as possible.

This is mentioned in the text, ‘there are risks and we work methodically to reduce the risks.’

(Adam et al, 2000:168) However, because we have made this risk with the devolvement of technology then we are able to understand it better and assume we can measure them. They apply the concept of Actualarism that categorise populations according to risk, with this concept we can measure the risk and the likelihood of them happening and by doing this we can take steps in reducing and avoiding these risks. A fundamental concept in the risk society is that to avoid risk we can distribute the risk which is part of neo-liberalism. This can be seen to be used in everyday life with car insurance companies who charge an individual more money in according to the risk they pose whilst driving .Risk has become a fundamentally commodity in a capitalist society. Risk society means that risk thinking has become normalised for individuals in everyday life, every decision we make we think about the risk connected to it. The rise of individualism has seen that individuals will purchase the best risk protection they can without thinking about the weaker person in society. Hudson states that we now fear crime from one another and because of this we want people who threaten us to be removed from our environment to eliminate the risk, this has been a contributing factor to why society has become more punitive. (Hudson, 2003:45) In the risk society governance is directed at the provision of security and experience of security usually

The issue of risk scenario carries immense importance for most of the hospitals that are part of the healthcare setting. However, there is not only one scenario that can affect the hospitals but

The main problem that Breyer exposes in his book Breaking the Vicious Circle is that, in the United States, the bodies responsible for regulating risk often don’t regulate things that are greater risks, and over regulate the relatively lesser risks. Breyer lists three problems that impede the development of risk regulation; tunnel vision, random agenda selection, and inconsistency.

While Children must not be exposed to harm in the realization of their rights under Article 31, some degree of risk and challenge is integral to play and recreational activities and it is necessary component of the the benefits of these activities A balance is needed between, on one hand, taking action to reduce unacceptable hazards in children’s environments such as, closing local streets to traffic, improving street lighting or creating safe boundaries for school playgrounds and on the other hand informing, equipping and empowering children to take the necessary precautions to enhance their own

Everything in life, at some point carries a certain level of risk based on a decision or choice made to meet a specific goal. Things taken for granted such as driving from one point to another or shopping at your local grocery store carry certain risk. The variables that affect the level of risk range from low to extreme. The issue with risk is there never is an absolute number of mitigating solutions that will neutralize risk 100% of the time. If something was essentially risk free, there would be no room for error or consequence. Unfortunately, the reality presented is not allowing for that level of perfection. Risk is weighed by the level of threats presented versus the consequences from choices made, level of vulnerability left to exploit from those threats and target acquisition and accessibility. This sounds complex but by the very definition, risk is the amount of gain obtained while accepting certain consequences that may pose a problem in success of a decision or choice. Strategic Planning, Resource allocation and Grant Funding, etc are all building blocks of Risk Management in the Homeland Security Enterprise. The Department of Homeland Security is a culmination of several agencies that work separately but have one common goal. The principles that bind the agencies together in the Homeland Security matriarch is unified in both agenda and response. It is a ladder for progression in action and leadership as threats and vulnerabilities present themselves that allow

In conclusion, building a tiny home does come with some identified potential risk. I have determined which risks are a major threat to the project and those that could be overlooked. Keeping an open line of communication is one of the key factors in keeping the risk to a minimum. With a construction project of this size I do not foresee any MAJOR risk that could or would be detrimental to the project itself.

We don't know if we live in a world any more risky than those of earlier generations. It is not the quantity of risk, but the quality of control or--to be more precise--the known

‘Governance of Risk Management’ is the consideration given to forestalling unreasonable hazard administration by remembering the

The value of risk assessment for risk management must be balanced against the accuracy and reliability of the data used, a process that is as much an art as it is a science. Risk assessment and risk management can be conflicting and should be carried out independently. Public concern and perceived risk, or public opinion, will strongly influence public policy and legislative action or risk management, even when no scientific validation exists for the said position. It is imperative to help the public understand that sometimes adequate or complete scientific information necessary to establish a standard is limited by the information available at that time. (Salvato, 1992)

Sometimes risks related to human health and safety are regulated differently from one policy area to another, we find also many categories of risks highly regulated and other are left to follow the first one. Authors here in this field of study, put the finger on the important points treating the multiplicity of the regimes regulating the risks in different policy area, the forces that structure those regimes and identify the vulnerable points of regulation. To this end, the book develops a concept based on the system of a "risk regulation regime" that provides a comparative description and an analysis of the rules, institutional arrangements and cultures related to the treatment of risks in and between regimes. Using this framework, the

The risk society thesis by Ulrich Beck has been one of the most extensively discussed frameworks in environmental management (Matten, 2004). Ulrich Beck who is a German sociologist is the up-to-date theorist of modernity being driven by industrialization and technological advancement producing hazards and that, we have to adopt a new lens of viewing the world in which we live. Beck maintains that the risk which is intrinsic in modern society characterized by technological industrialization produces new forms of global risk society. Beck’s theory is based on the premise that the post-modernist world that we live considers safety and collective decision making on risk as more crucial than amassing wealth. With Beck’s theory and Giddens who did a lot of work on risk society emphasized that, we cannot no longer negotiate the risk that is surrounding us considering certain happenings such as; the spread of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) first appeared in Britain, the E-coli virus, the 2009 N1H1 pandemic, global warming are beyond our control. Risk society as a result of modernity was thought to be only the problem of the so called ‘First World’ or western world due to their fast growing industrialization/technology but there are pockets of fast

Risk is the possibility of harmful consequences or expected losses resulting from interactions between natural or human-induced hazards and vulnerable conditions. It is ‘‘the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences’’ (UNISDR 2009: 25). In the field of hazards and disaster research,

The goal of risk management is to identify and eliminate or evade potential vulnerabilities and threats that are not wanted because it creates losses. The fundamentals concepts and principals of Risk Management apply at home, at work, in the community, and at critical infrastructure locations in because there are risks that can cause losses at these places which should be identified and escaped. For instance, at home there are many vulnerabilities which should be found and ways to evade them determined, houses are vulnerable to theft and accidents like gas leaks which can cause a fire (Pfohl et al. 2010). At work is also applies because there are risks that cause losses that cannot be seen but felt, at work risk management will help mitigate risks like injuries, business losses like employee turnover losses, job losses, and losses caused by employees. The community needs risk management concepts and principals to help them make the better decision to mitigate risks like political risks. Government instability can create losses to a community when there is no sufficient public resources and insecurity. It also applies at critical infrastructure locations because accidents like a plane crash or natural calamities like flooding or earthquake can create great losses including loss of lives. These risks cause great losses, and they should be mitigated by making good risk management decisions.