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| What is the concept of Risk Management? |
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| Identification, assessment prioritizing of risk with coordination minimize, monitor and control and impact of unfortunate events. |
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| What research has been conducted on risk management? |
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| Knowledge has been gained through the study of human behavior. |
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| What is the concepts and aproaches to risk management? |
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Risk = Probability x Magnitude
Establishing levels of evidence and proof to validate issue of risk
Science is increasingly concept to the risk management process
Providing BBS |
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| What is an example of intervention? |
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| Stepping into a situation and correcting it. |
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| What is the utility theory? |
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| Assumptions do not hold water when probabilities are hard to calculate. |
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| What is the prospect theory? |
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| Prospect theory is a theory that describes decisions between alternatives that involve risk (i.e., alternatives with uncertain outcomes) where the probabilities are known. The model is descriptive: it tries to model real-life choices, rather than optimal decisions. |
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| What are five resultant prototypes? |
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Hierarchists
Individualists
Engalitarians
Isolates
Hermits |
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| Intellectuals who straddle the fence to provide insights. |
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A central core of who acept authority
Search for plan and control
High source of social bonding with strong views or norms |
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| Entreprenueurs, trendsetters, and risk takers |
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| Dissenting minorities who are ruled by charisma, weak leadership, authority is mostly personal. |
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| Form groups, tend to be victimized, pestimistic / dooms day outlook |
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| What is Risk Management and the cultural theory? |
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| There is a gap or correlation between influence of the cultural theory and the practical apllication. A person can percieve/spot a hazard then use rational and emotioinal cognition to interpret a risk. |
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| What is psychometric approach? |
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| Associated with a persons power and to influence decisions about hazards. |
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| What is socio - political based? |
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| Trust, status is based on power rather then human based |
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| What is social constructionist aproach? |
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| A central notion that being objective entity capable of quantifying measurements of risk is a social constructive phenomenon. |
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| What is the social Constructed Approach? |
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| Workplace risk is constructed phenomenon not naturally occurring based on normal activity (ex human – forgetting laziness, etc) |
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| What is the the social amplification framework |
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| Risk mana occurs for individuals and org as agents to manage risk in their own environments |
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| What are individual differences? |
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| Personality traits or dimensions in individuals differ in their risk-taking/thrill seeking |
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| Risk Management and Individual Differences |
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| Risk Management implications are inclusive to targeted groups (e.g. gender, age cultural) |
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| BRPM-Risk Perception Model |
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More political than psychometric
Incorporates attitudes such as:
Fear
Worry
Risk Sensitivity
Trust
Lifestyles
Worldview |
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| What is the political approach to risk? |
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| involves both risk id. and risk mgt. being influenced by other factors/models/disciplines |
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| What is Political risk to model development |
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| In a global, liberalized economy-utility models seem to gain strength over alternative models of decision making |
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What is the
Socio-emotional approach to risk? |
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| Havden (2004) indicated that fear may create more risk than the threat caused fear (acting on emotions to take action |
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| What are the three types of Risk Management and Socio-Emotional approach? |
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Sudden
-Science-Based
-Political (e.g. ozone depletion) |
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| What is the evolutionary approach? |
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| Growing as humans intellectually to change risk management models |
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| What is the concept of perceptioin? |
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| involves how people discover what activities are going on and process the data through their senses |
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| Sensation and the human senses |
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Humans have a sixth sense?
Research has been conducted in the area is unknown
Does some humans have Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) ???? |
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| What is processing sensation? |
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Eyes
Ears
Nose
Mouth/Tongue
Touch
Kinesthetic sense |
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Vision (view different hues and colors)
There are some psychological effects of colors
Stimulated positively or negatively through moods and feelings |
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| Descriptions of color (types of moods) |
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RED
Orange
Yellow
Brown
Green |
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Positive Happiness, optimism, strength
Neg Anarchy, the devil, blood, anger, death, debt |
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P )Communication, organic, warmth
N) Melaevolence |
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P) Cheeriness, enlightenment, youth
N) Cowardliness, treachery |
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P) Positive attributes
N) Vulgarity, barrenness, impoverishment |
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P) Nature, fertility, prosperity, life, hope
N) Decay, mould, envy, jealousy, immaturity |
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P ) Spirituality, devotion, justice, rationality
N) Melancholy, darkness, doubt |
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P )Royal, loyal, power, truth
N) Lust, decadence, mourning, secrecy |
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P) Impenetrability, distinction, nobility
N) Death, sickness, despair, denial, evil, sin |
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P) Purity, refreshment, perfection, infinite
N) Blankness, absolute, silence, void |
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P ) Autonomy, neutrality
N) Indecision, fear, monotony, dirt, coldness |
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Ears convert noises as sound pressure wavesinto electrical patterns, which nerve pulses are decoded and measured by the brain’s auditory cortex
Sound senses by normal young adults range from 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Excess noise can interfere with a workers’ concentration/performing a task |
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| Examples of adverse effects of sound on human performance |
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human performance (Crook and Langdon, 1974)
Increased fidgeting, irritability, tiredness, and headaches among pupils
Disruption of lessons/concentration |
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| Examples of noise reduction methods |
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Sound damping material around machinery
Sound absorbing wall and floor materials |
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| Perceptual organization and interpretation |
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| Perception and its associated cognitions comprise of complex patterns that the brain constantly interprets to make sense of the world or working environment that we face |
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| Physical stimuli would attract attention (e.g. large object, loud sounds, strong colors, repeated occurrences, moving objects. (Which event will have a dramatizing effect that will learn from) |
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| Sustained attention and vigilance |
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Collecting enough information visually and internalizing it to maintain the act of behaving safely
Look at the 2010 cars: Mercedes Benz: The car can keep you vigilant!!!! |
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| What is selective attention? |
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| Our mental condition is important, which is effected by motivation, personality, and learning ability. |
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| What are the three Effectiveness of warnings |
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Verbal
Written
Pictorial/Visual |
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| What is Self-serving bias |
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| Person who takes credit for their success or improvements, but not accept blame for failures |
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| People are held more responsible for serious consequences than for minor ones |
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| What is Self-serving bias |
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| Person who takes credit for their success or improvements, but not accept blame for failures |
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| What is a false concensus? |
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| People think like others, even though people tend to think that their beliefs are universally shared |
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| People underestimate the degree to which a person’s role in a situation can modify their behavior |
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| We tend to underestimate an important statistical phenomenon (hidden constructs) |
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| People tend to treat small numbers as being better than they should |
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| The effect of predictions and perceptions results in them being very resistant to alteration once made |
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| People are poor at estimating the odds and overconfident in their judgments about facts |
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| What is Behavioral feedback |
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Important to de bias some ones views
Ex - Detailed planning of safety and risk management |
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| What is Behavioral feedback |
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Important to de bias some ones views
Ex - Detailed planning of safety and risk management |
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| People are poor at estimating the odds and overconfident in their judgments about facts |
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| What is behavioral Feedback? |
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Important to de bias some ones views
Ex - Detailed planning of safety and risk management |
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| What is the behavioral approach to motivation? |
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| The alternative perspective on the relationship between stimuli and behavior |
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| ENCOURAGING and REINFORCING safe behavior is an important factor for safety and risk scientist practitioners |
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