Risk Assessment and Management
Prepare a consulting report using the Unit IV Project Report template, which provides the following information:
Part I: List and discuss the five steps to risk assessment and management.
Part II: Conduct a before and after qualitative risk assessment to determine the risk level, based on the following information:
Spillage of the product along the walkway of a conveyor belt in an area creates a significant slip and trip hazard, especially when it rains (as there are significant leaks in the product shed). This area is occupied on average by three employees per shift, which must pass through this area at least twice a day. The most likely consequence could be a significant strain or sprain to the extremities, including potential permanent lumbar injuries. One option to reduce or eliminate the risk is barricading the area and providing a secondary path. The secondary path would require employees to travel to the upper level, across, and back down to this level, thus creating an additional travel time of 10 minutes each way (twice per day). Explain your reasoning why you chose the severity and probability ratings.
Part III: Using the same information in Part II, complete a before and after quantitative risk assessment using the Unit IV Project spreadsheet.
Part IV: To eliminate the condition of spillage along the conveyor belt identified in Part II and III, a permanent solution would be to replace the current 24” belt with a 48” belt. To do this, all rollers, framing, belt, and guards must be replaced at $235,000. (Note: Some of this cost can be recovered by preventing lost product, but this does not factor into the cost justification process.) Once completed, this project will reduce the risk by 42%. Then, using the William Fine method, calculate the risk score and J-value and determine:
whether the cost to correct a hazard is justified and
how quickly the hazard should be corrected.
Ensure you show your equations and all work for determining answers for parts II through IV in the project document. You may either formulate the scenario equations using the Word equation formula toolbar or write and solve your equations with answers on a separate paper. Then, take a screenshot of your work for each scenario using your phone or similar device and insert it as an image in the document. Make sure your image is clear and legible to read.
No references are required for this assignment; however, if outside sources are used, please adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references.
Category: Science
In a Word document, evaluate three of the following scenarios:
1. Your newspaper reports the results of an experiment a student at Franklin University performed to test the effects of a special healthy diet on the cholesterol content of chicken eggs. The student obtained a total of 20 chickens from two different breeders. One half of the chickens were fed his special healthy diet while the other half were fed a diet of standard chicken feed. The student found that the eggs from the group of chickens fed the special healthy diet had lower levels of cholesterol when compared to the eggs from the other group (fed the standard diet). The student now wants to market his special healthy diet. Do you see any potential problems with this study? Please explain.
2. Imagine that you are a researcher at a major environmental science university. You are considered a leading authority on a disease that is caused by a particular environmental problem and you have been studying it for the past 25 years. Because of this, a major pharmaceutical company hires you to help them determine whether a new drug they’re developing will cure this disease. Being busy with your own research, you ask a couple of your new graduate students to devise an experiment to test the potential effectiveness of the drug. The students quickly come up with an idea: they suggest that you treat 100 patients with the drug at two different dosages, and then follow the patients for a year to see how many recover. Do you think this is a good experiment? Why or why not?
3. For years, representatives of the tobacco industry claimed that there was no proof that cigarette smoking caused cancer, despite the fact that more than 40 studies on people and numerous studies on lab animals showed a strong correlation between smoking and lung cancer. Most of the studies on humans correct for other factors that might cause lung cancer such as exposure to cancer-causing chemical pollutants in the workplace. Why did representatives from the tobacco industry claim there was no proof that smoking caused lung cancer? How would you have responded to their assertion? Can a study be devised to prove the connection? What critical thinking attributes are helpful in evaluating this scenario?
4. Many people believe that subliminal tapes can enhance a person’s memory, self-esteem, concentration, and vocabulary. If you search the Internet, you will find what appears to be valid research that supports these beliefs. Psychologists decided to test this hypothesis. They gave one group of subjects a subliminal tape designed to improve memory. The other group received a tape that supposedly improved self-esteem. Each group was told the purpose of the tape. A month later, the researchers polled each group, and, sure enough, those who received the memory tape reported enhanced memory. Those who received the self-esteem tape reported higher self-esteem. Pretty convincing? What’s wrong with this conclusion?
5. Many people believe in ESP, extrasensory perception, the ability to perceive things by a sense outside our conventional senses (hearing, seeing, etc.). Given you are curious about ESP, you decided to learn more and went to an organization specializing in ESP. When you arrived, you happened upon an experiment already underway. The experiment asked individuals to discern the shapes another person was looking at. That person, the sender, was supposed to concentrate on the shape while the other person, the receiver, was supposed to concentrate on the sender’s forehead and attempt to “sense” what the sender was viewing. The instructor told the group to identify 25 cards; individuals should correctly identify 5 out of 25 cards by chance. That’s because there is a one in five chance of guessing each card correctly. He went on to say that anyone who identifies 7 or more cards correctly has ESP. In the present group, three people correctly identified 8 cards in the first trial. Did these people really have ESP?
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The digestive system plays a critical role in how our body takes in and processes food. Organs of the digestive system are usually referred to as “your gut.” It is also the beginning of the process in which our body receives nourishment. Understanding this process can be helpful when communicating with patients or when analyzing charts for assigning the correct medical codes. If you had to explain the point at which the digestive process actually begins and one related disease or disorder, how would you describe it? Be sure to use your medical terms!
Instructions
Select one research question from those you wrote in the previous module. Use instructor feedback and what you have learned thus far in the course to revise your research question. Then, write your finalized research question below.
Example
The following example may provide some guidance on revising your own research question.
Main idea of news story:
The types of bacteria that live in the gut of people with chronic fatigue syndrome are different from the bacteria in people who do not have the disease. This indicates that there may be a connection between gut bacteria and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Possible research questions:
1. What is the relationship between abnormal gut bacteria and inflammation?
2. What is the relationship between gut bacteria and chronic fatigue syndrome?
3. What is the relationship between inflammation and chronic fatigue syndrome?
Finalized research question:
1. How could abnormal gut bacteria cause chronic fatigue syndrome?
Finalize your scientific research question related to the main idea of your chosen news story.
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Explain how your beliefs, assumptions, and values may have impacted your research question.
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Locate at least 4 resources that you can use in your paper/project
These should be focused on your species, its evolution, and the fossil record that examines this species.
Look for sources that discuss the way this species evolved. Was there documented genetic drift? Was the selection at some point in time identified as directional, disruptive, or stabilizing?
Each annotation should be approximately 100-150 words and contain the following:
A brief summary of the source’s main argument,
an explanation of its relevance to your topic and how you plan to use it,
a brief evaluation of the source for authority, currency, objectivity, and verifiability.