Describe some ways that the Emergency Response Guidebook is used when responding to incidents involved the release of hazardous materials.
1.Describe some ways that the Emergency Response Guidebook is used when responding to incidents involved the release of hazardous materials. Your response must be at least 75 words in length. 2. Describe how the chemical characteristics, production methods, uses, and associated unique hazards of sulfur can affect the safety of an environmental health and safety (EHS) and fire science (FS) professional. Your response must be at least 75 words in length 3. A nursing home is installing their own bulk oxygen system due to their large volume of consumption. OSHA regulation 29 CFR 1910.104(b)(2)(iii) requires owners of bulk oxygen systems to provide noncombustible surfacing in areas where liquid oxygen might leak during operation of the system or during the filling of a storage container. If the nursing home provides an asphalt surface in areas where oxygen could potentially leak, will it be in compliance with the workplace regulation regarding oxygen? Explain your answer. Your response must be at least 75 words in length. 5. Although coal is no longer the favored energy source, U.S. coal mines still produced close to a billion short tons of coal. Detail 5 different forms of coal, including activated carbon, and chemical products and health hazards related to each different form. Describe DOT recommended response actions to incidents involving a release of coal and/or carbon. Your response must be at least 75 words in length.
Based on the materials this week, and your own personal experience and knowledge, describe the five most important elements of a business plan.
INSTRUCTIONS: This is a writing assignment that covers the assigned materials (readings, videos, lectures, etc.) for Module 4. Download the Skill Builder #3 assignment template (the link is found below), then write your answers directly into that template (it is a WORD file). Write a minimum of 200 words for each question. You may keep uploading versions of your assignment until you are satisfied with your TURNITIN Originality Report. Remember, you may only obtain a TURNITIN Originality Report once every 24 hours; so allow yourself plenty of time to resubmit if necessary.For Skill Builder assignments, focus on thoughts and reasoning rather than spelling and grammar. You will NOT be penalized for incorrect spelling or improper grammar or sentence structure. This is a Socratic exercise – an opportunity for you to think and express your thoughts. This assignment is a reflection of the degree to which you are engaged in the course material, and how well you learned the topics assigned this week. The emphasis of this assignment is synthesis – the connecting of dots – where you tie together in a meaningful way (1) the assigned readings and videos, (2) current business and world events, and (3) your previous knowledge and experience. There is no correct or incorrect answer, but rather YOUR answer, based on YOUR thoughts and understanding of the material/concepts. Please avoid trying to answer what others would say, or copy what someone else has thought or written. There are three fundamental mistakes students often make on these assignments: (1) simply rambling unsupported opinions or simply listing the topics assigned this week, (2) failing to apply one’s personal perspective (i.e. writing as if it were a research paper, with no personal perspective applied), and (3) failing to incorporate all the assigned materials for the week (which demonstrates that the student decided to skip some of the readings and other assigned materials). Question #1: The theme this week covers the difference between business plans and business models, and the delivery of the entrepreneurial pitch. Based on the materials this week, and your own personal experience and knowledge, describe the five most important elements of a business plan. List the FIVE elements in order of priority and place an importance factor on each element (a number 0-100, with 100 signifying an enormously important element). Many students argue that it depends on the type of venture described in the business plan, and if you believe this to be true, then select a specific type of venture, identify it, and then answer the question).Question #2: Based on the materials presented in this course, and your own personal experience and knowledge, describe why business models have become so popular – replacing business plans in so many circles.Question #3: Describe the business model canvas (BMC), and explain the difference between BMC and the Lean Canvas. Which do you feel is more appropriate for a new venture startup (and why)?Question #4: Many experts argue that Empathy is the most important skill/behavior possessed by, and demonstrated by entrepreneurs when developing a business plan or business model (as well as when an entrepreneur is starting their new venture). Explain why you believe experts feel this way? Do you agree or disagree, and why?Question #5: Just as Dan Pink explained that a pitch is a story, a business plan and a business model is a story – an understandable story. Explain why you believe it is (or is not) important that business plans, business models, and pitches be succinct (short in duration). Why do so many experts request one-page business plans? Do you agree that a one-page plan should be preferred, and why?Question #6: This week there was a large quantity of videos (and readings) assigned to explore the process of new venture creation. Which of these videos most resonated with you in regards to business founding (or management), and why?
How does an ERM program help an organization to better understand their risk culture?
Topic: Chapter 13 – “TD Bank’s Approach to an Enterprise Risk Management Program” Overview: This case study focuses on how TD Bank Group uses enterprise risk management (ERM) to grow profitably while keeping in mind the balance between taking and managing its risks. TD recognizes that having a strong risk culture and approach to risk management is fundamental to success. As such, TD’s ERM approach is based on enabling TD’s business to understand the risks it faces and to develop the policies, processes, and controls required to manage them appropriately in alignment with the bank’s strategy and risk appetite. Answer the following questions regarding this case study: 1. How does an ERM program help an organization to better understand their risk culture? 2. What are the determining factors in deciding which risks TD can take? 3. How does TD measure the risks in their organization? Guidelines for Submission: Using APA 6th edition style standards, submit a Word document that is 2-4 pages in length (excluding title page, references, and appendices)
Discuss the culture of impunity as presented in the documentary “Half the Sky” on Sierra Leone
“When will women be human?” (Katherine McKinnon)Discuss the culture of impunity as presented in the documentary “Half the Sky” on Sierra Leone: Share examples of impunity in your own community/ country that you have observed yourself or read about in the news. Based on Module 04 and 05 readings, what factors contribute to a culture of impunity?Compare your own example to at least two of your group members.
Determine the minimum services that must be maintained for the company after a disaster.
Each case needs to be at least 250 words. APA citation required. Each case needs to be written separately. Turnitin check required.
Case 1: Select a company either real or fictious. Completely describe the company including where the company is located. Determine the minimum services that must be maintained for the company after a disaster. What services must be restored first? what services do you think can be put off until later?
Case 2: Facilities coordinator is a critical role in disaster recovery management. Put yourself in the position of facilities coordinator. Determine the list of qualities you have that would make you an excellent candidate for this position. Determine the list of qualities this position demands that you lack. Write a proposal for upper management on why you think you are qualified for this position.
Case 3: Search for information on system and equipment failure on your favorite search engine. List what might be done to provide fault tolerance for a single system. List what might be done to provide fault tolerance at data center level.
Case 4: You are part of a disaster recovery team charged with completing the asset inventory at a small business that primarily sells a small selection of products to the public. Establish a sample hardware asset list for this company and classify those assets as tier 1,2 or 3. Develop a list of the software needed to restore operations of a small business.
Case 5: Your organization has approximately 10 TB of data, and you need to decide if your organization should have on-site or off-site tape storage. Your organization must be able to recover data no older than one month as an operational requirement. Your organization’s further requirement is that recovery operations must resume at minimal levels for all systems within two weeks of a total catastrophe at the data center. Decide how your organization should house its backups.
Case 6: A major hurricane has struck the area where your company has its central data center. There are offsite backups and hardware at three other data centers around the country. Assume that the area is suffering greatly from the hurricane’s impact and your company cannot continue operations until the central data center’s operations resume. Briefly describe the activities that need to occur to setup the emergency operation center for your company and where your company should locate the center.
Case 7: You have been asked to test the disaster recovery plan for a small business in your area. The company has a backup plan that is well documented. Describe the steps you would use to test the plan to ensure that the backup plan would function in case of an actual emergency.
Case 8: As part of the disaster recovery planning at a medium sized business, you have been asked to develop a project plan to test the backups of production systems. Develop an outline of the project plan for the testing.
Does the size and statistical significance of these coefficients seem to match what you would think about the three different types of costs?
Cost management is particularly important in the banking industry where pricing is competitive and interest rates are set by a combination of market forces and regulatory policies. Fictitious Bank Corp, is a midsized privately owned bank operating in multiple states. The company offers a range of traditional banking services including checking and savings accounts, IRAs, home and personal loans, and small business loans. In an effort to stay competitive in the marketplace, Fictitious’ top management has hired your team to perform an industry benchmark analysis of their different expense categories to assess their competitiveness in the market. As an industry expert in banking, you have access to data on Fictitious’ competitors. You have compiled data on the non-interest expenses of 66 competitors with total assets between 300 and 700 million dollars. This data is provided the bankdata.xlsx file. The first tab titled “NonInterest Exp” includes non-interest cost and loan data, in thousands of dollars, for the 66 competitors. Additionally, you have gathered ATM expense data for 40 competitors provided in the second table titled (ATM Exp). Since Fictitious is looking to cut labor costs, they want to get a better idea of what competitors are paying for ATM expenses.Selected Data Definitions Total Non-Interest expense: all expenses incurred in the operation of the bank, which are not related to the interest paid on deposits and other liabilities.Wage and Salary expense: total wages and salaries of bank employees excluding top executives. This expense includes insurance and other benefits.Fixed Asset expense: expenses related to servicing physical assets such as rent, maintenance, and janitorial services. This number also includes depreciation on building and equipment owned.ATM expense: expense related to ATMs including depreciation, maintenance, and service.Demand deposits: total dollar value of time demand deposit accounts, which are funds available for immediate withdraw (i.e. upon demand).Time deposits: total dollar value of time account deposits. Time accounts are funds that can only be withdrawn, without penalty, when the account matures, such as a certificate of deposit. Savings deposits: total dollar value of savings account deposits.*all data a presented in thousands of dollarsAssignment1. Using the data provided in the “NonInterest Exp” tab, estimate the following OLS regression models for each of the three different types of expenses: wage expense, fixed asset expenses, and total non-interest expenses (i.e. run three different regressions).Expense = α + β1*R.E. Loans + β2*Pers. Loans + β3*Small Bus. Loans + ε 2. Interpret the coefficients and explanatory power of the models in part1. Which costs are fixed and variable? Does the size and statistical significance of these coefficients seem to match what you would think about the three different types of costs?
At the 0.01 level of significance, can you conclude that the new process has increased the proportion of orders filled correctly?
Q-4a. You are the manager of a fast food restaurant. You want to determine whether the population mean waiting time to place an order has changed in the past month from its previous population mean value of 4.5 minutes. From past experience, you can assume that the population is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 1.2 minutes. You select a sample of 25 orders during a one hour period. The sample mean is 5.1 minutes. Determine whether there is evidence at the 0.05 level of significance that the population mean waiting time to place an order has changed in the past month from its previous population mean value of 4.5 minutes. Q-4b. You have just opened your new fast-food restaurant. And you have developed a new process to ensure that orders at the drive-through are filled correctly. The previous process filled orders correctly 85% of the time. Based on a sample of a hundred orders using the new process, 94 were filled correctly. At the 0.01 level of significance, can you conclude that the new process has increased the proportion of orders filled correctly?
What were the most moving and emotive things he said. Why were his words effective?
Watch one scene of your choice from Cinderella Man and listen to one of FDR’s Fireside Chats. You can get access to these clips on YouTube. You can also rent the movie or get these items from your public library. Then answer the following question: Given the morale (or lack of it) at the time, Cinderella Man not only strikes a poignant (look up the word if you don’t know it) chord in the hearts of people going through the Great Depression but those today going through the Great Recession. Select some key phrases or sentences that James Braddock said publicly to describe what he and his family were going through. What were the most moving and emotive things he said. Why were his words effective? For FDR’s speeches, do the same. What key concepts were reinforced by his choice of words and phrases? Does having seen this movie make FDR’s speech any more vivid for you? Give specific examples from the film and FDR’s Fireside Chat that you selected. In addition, point out any specific events or dialogue in both the film and the radio broadcasts that deepen your sense of the despair that existed at the time of the Great Depression. How, if at all, can you relate these feelings to what has been said about or that you have experienced in the Great Recession (the U.S. economic downturn since the financial crisis that began in 2008). This must be 1-2 page/.
What authority do the unions have in each sector?
Contrast the rights of public employees with private sector employees to organize and bargain collectively. What authority do the unions have in each sector? Do you feel there is a tendency in your home state to favor the rights of public employees or the private sector? Are unions celebrated, or is the emphasis on the right to work? Share your rationale.Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.Scholarly ActivityYou are a new union representative. Draft a memo requesting copies of documents, policies, and procedures the union has in place so you can begin your job effectively. Be sure to indicate the importance of these documents on your position. Your memo should be at least one full page. Below is a suggested format for the memo: Be sure close the memo with a sincere thank you for the cooperation of the person(s) to whom the memo is addressed and a desire to work together often in the future. References and citations are not necessary for this assignment.
Would you invest in the Treasury bill that you can rollover every 6 months and reinvest or leave your money in the Treasury note that will mature in 9 years? Discuss your reasoning.
Unit 7 Discussion
Discussion Topic
Annuities and Loans
Treasury bills and Treasury notes are an investment security issued by the U.S. government. A Treasury bill matures within one year and investors typically roll over the matured Treasury bill and purchase another Treasury bill the same day. Treasury notes have maturities of up to 10 years. You are considering investing $50,000 in a Treasury bill that you will renew every 6 months or invest in a Treasury note that you will hold until maturity. Your investment time frame is 9 years. Current investment opportunity interest rates are 5% and are expected to increase to 7% in 6 months. Would you invest in the Treasury bill that you can rollover every 6 months and reinvest or leave your money in the Treasury note that will mature in 9 years? Discuss your reasoning.
