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Financial incentives have long been used to try to influence
professional values and practices. Recent events including the
global financial crisis and the BP Texas City refinery disaster
have been linked to such incentives, with commentators calling for
a critical look at these systems given the catastrophic outcomes.
Risky Rewards engages with this debate, particularly in the context
of the present and potential role of incentives to manage major
accident risk in hazardous industries. It examines the extent to
which people respond to financial incentives, the potential for
perverse consequences, and approaches that most appropriately focus
attention on major hazard risk. The book is based in part on an
empirical study of bonus arrangements in eleven companies operating
in hazardous industries, including oil, gas, chemical and mining.
Many organisations live with hazards that have the potential to
cause disaster. This was the case at Moura underground coal mine in
Central Queensland, where 11 men died in an explosion in 1994.
Andrew Hopkins shows that the explosion was the result of
organisational failure, and uses it to draw lessons about managing
major hazards. He argues that there are always tell-tale signs of
impending disaster, and that organisations need to find ways of
gathering this information and reacting to it appropriately. The
Moura story also demonstrates the need to move responsibility for
risk management up the corporate hierarchy to ensure that it is not
overshadowed by production pressures. Otherwise disasters will
repeat themselves in horrifyingly similar ways. Managing Major
Hazards is a gripping story and essential reading for occupational
health and safety professionals, executives working in hazardous
industries, policy makers, and readers interested in risk
management and disaster studies.
Many organisations live with hazards that have the potential to
cause disaster. This was the case at Moura underground coal mine in
Central Queensland, where 11 men died in an explosion in 1994.
Andrew Hopkins shows that the explosion was the result of
organisational failure, and uses it to draw lessons about managing
major hazards. He argues that there are always tell-tale signs of
impending disaster, and that organisations need to find ways of
gathering this information and reacting to it appropriately. The
Moura story also demonstrates the need to move responsibility for
risk management up the corporate hierarchy to ensure that it is not
overshadowed by production pressures. Otherwise disasters will
repeat themselves in horrifyingly similar ways. Managing Major
Hazards is a gripping story and essential reading for occupational
health and safety professionals, executives working in hazardous
industries, policy makers, and readers interested in risk
management and disaster studies.
In 1921, Ronan and Patrick Dooley leave their family in Ireland to
start a new life and a better future in New York City in America.
Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants arrived in New York.
They were usually poor, but believed in 'The American Dream' - if
you work hard, you can get a good job, a nice home and money.
Today, New York is still a place of hope for new immigrants - just
like Ronan and Patrick.
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Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium, Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf, Dallas, Texas, and Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S.A., May, 18-22, 2003 (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Andrew Hopkins, Zeng-Yu Wang, Rouf Mian, Mary Sledge, Reed E. Barker
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R5,847
Discovery Miles 58 470
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Forage and turf are the backbone of sustainable agriculture and
contribute extensively to the world economy. The fast-paced
advancement of cellular and molecular biology provides novel
methods to accelerate or complement conventional breeding efforts.
This book contains the most comprehensive reviews on the latest
development in applications of molecular techniques for the
improvement of forage grasses, forage legumes and turf grasses.
Detailed accounts and future opportunities in molecular breeding of
forage and turf, from gene discovery to development of improved
cultivars, are described in the book. Almost all relevant areas are
explored in detail, including tolerance to biotic and abiotic
stresses; flowering control; plant-symbiont relations; breeding for
animal, human and environmental welfare; molecular markers;
transgenics; bioinformatics; population genetics; genomics of the
model legume M. truncatula; field testing and risk assessment as
well as intellectual property rights. This book will be of interest
to researchers in both academia and industry who are involved in
forage and turf improvement. It will be especially important to
breeders, molecular biologists, geneticists, physiologists and
agronomists.
Presents a collection of seventeen essays that explores the
dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing
the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and
science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
Safety regulation is society's way of keeping the genie of
technology in the bottle, whilst still exploiting its power for
creating wealth and change. It is a difficult compromise to make.
Regulators often have a thankless task. If all seems to go well
they are painted as too repressive and anti-technological; if
disaster strikes, the searchlight of media attention increasingly
focuses on them, looking for lax enforcement, blind eyes being
turned and cosy relations with the regulated. This title explores
the dilemmas of the regulator through case studies presented by the
regulators themselves and through research-based analyses from
different disciplines of the workings of the regulators and the
regulatory system. More importantly it surveys the tools available
to resolve the dilemmas and asks what we know about their successes
and shortcomings and what can be learned over the boundaries of
industries and technologies about the principles of successful
safety regulation. Chapters are written by authors from seven
countries, with an international perspective. They examine the role
of certification, safety cases, strictly enforced detailed rules,
professional regulation and self-regulation. The text covers new
risks such as those from medical devices and biotechnology, as well
as the well-known fields of nuclear power, chemical plants, mining,
oil and gas production, railways and the traditionally difficult
area of small companies.
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Carriers of the Ark (Paperback)
Andrew Hopkins; Foreword by Jerame Nelson, Joshua Mills
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R412
R344
Discovery Miles 3 440
Save R68 (17%)
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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the
joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think,
and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers
offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all
featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to
learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the
world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in
pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction
of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a
broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency,
improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express
themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers
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