• Time: 15 hours
    Level: Masters

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Introduction

  • Introduction Resource
  • Life is full of risk. We encounter many uncalculated outcomes, some beneficial and others adverse. Businesses, especially in the financial context, often consider risk in terms of opportunities for gain....
  
 
 

1 Safety, health and environmental management ? a risky business!

  
 
 

2 Setting priorities

  • 2 Setting priorities Resource
  • Consider whether the relative economic aspects should determine the degree of priority given to different aspects of the risk scenarios in Figure 1.
  
 
 

3 Analysing incidents

  • 3.1 Types of incident Resource
  • Now we can progress to an examination of some incidents by studying selected reports and publications.
  • 3.2 Multiple causes Resource
  • Now we will explore multiple causes using an example familiar to us all ? road accidents. The deaths of about 10 people each day on the UK's roads are less dramatic than, for example, the capsize of the...
  
 
 

4 Integrated management

  • 4.1 Introduction Resource
  • Annual costs to employers from accidental injury and occupational illness are on the order of 5?10 per cent of the gross profits of UK industry. The total social cost, including the cost of benefits and...
  • 4.2 Why integrate management systems? Resource
  • Integrating any management system with the business is essential if progress is to be made, but here we are concerned with integrating management systems with each other.
  
 
 

5 Emergency planning

  • 5.1 Introduction Resource
  • Much of this unit is about risk, but as we have seen, it is a word with different interpretations ? the risk of harm, the chance of gain or simple uncertainty, for example. So it may be seen as a balance...
  • 5.2 Why plan? Resource
  • Captain James Lovell chose the title ?A successful failure? for an article on the Apollo 13 Lunar Mission. The failure was that the lunar landing was abandoned. The success was that, although an explosion...
  • 5.3 Emergency planning as a formal requirement Resource
  • Several pieces of legislation make the preparation of emergency plans a statutory requirement. The European Directive on the control of major accident hazards (Council of the European Union, 1996a), the...
  • 5.4 Emergency planning as a public protection activity Resource
  • Uniformed emergency services ? police, fire authorities and ambulance services ? and organisations such as NHS hospitals, have an obvious role in the response to civil emergencies. Local authorities have...
  • 5.5 Emergency planning as an organisational management function Resource
  • If emergency services' EPOs plan to respond to other people's emergencies, people managing a business activity with major incident potential have a different perspective. They have to respond to emergencies...
  • 5.6 Business continuity planning Resource
  • An organisation's strategy regarding insurance for its business risks is no substitute for high-quality risk management and emergency preparedness to address all contingencies. Some incidents we have mentioned...
  • 5.7 Emergency planning ? the process Resource
  • Usually, when emergency plans are prepared the hazards already exist, and may have been there for some time. The liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stores in the middle of many cities are a classic example....
  • 5.8 Conclusion Resource
  • Perhaps it is a truism to say that all life is full of risk. We encounter many uncalculated outcomes, some beneficial and others adverse. It can be difficult to know which adverse events will prove permanently...
  
 
 

References and Acknowledgements