Risk

At risk has an unspoken meaning. At risk is synonymous with at-risk-youth in Western Culture. At risk is a phrase used in human services, the media, academia and government to identify young people who are troubling or on the fringe of risky behavior. If you do a Google search of the phrase at risk over 13 million images will appear most of which are of young people. Risk Discourse creates a risk society in response to specific populations being on the fringe of what is deemed “normal” within society. Risk discourse is a popular modernity term written at length by Modernist such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens European Sociologists. A Risk Society was not even a term until the 1980s. In the 1990s Risk Society became popular and it acceptance coincided with the infiltration of Risk Discourse into sociology, politics, literature and academia. There is an ongoing debate as to whether environmental concerns created a vacuum for a risk society or if it was a by-product of immigration and the War on Drugs. Either way Risk Discourse and risk society language terms are here to stay. Peter Kelly poses a question asking if young people are a society’s most precious resource then what does society need to do to adequately utilize this resource. He separates young people into categories of income, young people are exposed to high-risk setting more frequently than high income youths. Peter Kelly makes this separation to demonstrate there is inadequate research available on young

Compliance with legislation. Ensure safety of customers, contractors and staff at all the times. The enjoyment of these standards at the highest levels is a basic human right that should be accessible by each and every worker. Regardless of the nature of their work, workers should be able to

An innocent child is standing in a candy store and looking at all his favorite options from which to choose. He slowly reaches for the bag of M&Ms, and he does not know what all the chemicals in that bag will cause him. The M&Ms have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) causing carcinogens in them called food dyes. These food additives help the food products stay vibrant and eye catching but America’s youth does not know what the consequences are when you eat these products. Children think they are nice and colorful but they do not know what lies behind the wonderful rainbow of colored M&Ms in that bag. That is why The United States needs to ban food color additives to make our nation healthier. The main points on food dyes are the problems they cause, the counter argument against them and the steps the country can take to solve these problems.

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

In part one of the project I focused on two potential risks, power outage and work stoppage. As a contractor constructing a facility as massive as the Empire State Building, I would need to be aware of many other risks in order to prevent them from becoming events. Anytime an event occurs, it requires resources to be realigned in order to fix the problem and get the project back on track. This results in a slip in the schedule and unnecessary funds being expended. If I am able to appropriately determine potential risks and build an effective Risk Management Plan, I can minimize the

It has to provide superior security of communications data particularly since the company works with sensitive information and materials

Relative Risk is the likelihood or probability of developing a disease in the exposed group as opposed to the likelihood of the disease occurring in the unexposed group.

Last week thousands of people were out of power for days due to power lines being interrupted during a severe thunderstorm. These power outages have forced city officials to rethink how power is supplied.

Because to regulate the company against the data breaches, there is need of a strict security

What I understood from this article was the different type of risk takers is based upon the degree of risks they are willing to take. Although Ron is a fictional character in this article, I have known a lot of Ron in my life who lives for excitement. As described in the article, they like to smoke, drink, do drugs, party every weekend and just live it up every day. So I ever wonder what makes someone a risk taker. Someone who is a risk taker is someone who has a personality trait called sensation-seeking. The traits are the pursuit of novel, intense and complex sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience. There is also three levels to distinguish the different type of risk takers, which are

It is sometimes necessary to take a risk because you can get over your fears and live a better future.

Risk is best defined as the possibility to lose something of value. People need to ask themselves what the best way to allocate their resources is: avoiding the risk or spending resources on another competing end. There is no time that achieving zero risk should be attempted. Rhoads writes that “personal protective devices have on serious drawback, they do nothing to reduce or eliminate the hazard” (8). Eliminating risk has a cost. While people spend their resources attempting to eliminate risk, they do not actually eliminate the risk. Instead, they merely spend their limited resources reducing the risk.

The senior management of the company is committed to achieving a superior security governance by treating INFOSEC as a crucial business component. The aim of the policy is to create a security conscious environment and to exhibit to all parties, internal and external, the application of fundamental security principles notably taking responsibility for information security, applying security controls in relation to the risks and individual accountability.

The people who always bet on the outsiders tend to be the ones that lose. Making risky investments is a great way to make a lot of money very quickly if you happen to be incredibly lucky. Otherwise, risk takers tend to lose it all and come away with nothing.

Risk is a part of every human endeavour. Everything that we decide to do has a margin of risk. No outcome is ever 100 per cent certain and, therefore, any attempt at anything has a chance of complete failure. However, while some of these risks may seem trivial, others make a significant difference in the way we live our lives. On the other hand, it can be argued that every major advance in human civilization, from the caveman’s invention of tools to modern technology nowadays, has been made possible because of the willingness to take a risk and challenge the status quo. (Aswath, 2012)