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Effects and Hazards of Earthquakes

to be the most damaging waves due to the fact that "buildings are more easily damaged from horizontal motion than from vertical mo...

Underage Drinking, College Students

This research paper explores recent research in order to identify factors associated with underage drinking and solutions that may...

Five Overlooked Workplace Safety Hazards and Their Risks

Health Topics, 2008). These injuries typically occur when forklift trucks veer off loading docks, if a worker is struck by a fork...

Food Imports

The FDA has several critical regulations in place in regard to food imports into the US. These included Hazard Analysis and Criti...

First Responder Case Study Analysis

serious situation. Again, there is the possibility that chemical or biological agents had been released. While the threat is not n...

Low Tech Options for Reducing our Continued Dependence on Foreign Oil

past few months, the exorbitantly high prices we have been forced to pay at the pump in that last year remind us that depending on...

A Public Health Inspection of Apartment Housing and Public Swimming Pools

manufactured before 1978 are particularly likely to contain lead-based paints because it wasnt until that year that lead-based pai...

Cullen's A Job to Die For

In looking at non-construction occupations, there are many dangers that lurk. Obviously, those who work in construction wear hard ...

Reducing and Ultimately Eliminating Pollution

Pollution threatens the worlds environment on all fronts. It arises, of course, from the lifestyle choices that we make...

Mamawawa, Sleep, Drug Addiction and Other Issues

the set point assumption: they are inconsistent with eating pressures as they have evolved; predictions have not been confirmed; a...

Major Themes in "A Hazard of New Fortunes" and "The House of Mirth

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Effect of Hurricanes, Floods on Environmental Health

under investigation and also those that were the most recent. List of topics to be discussed: This list of topics will evolve a...

Should A Company Undertake Loss Management If They Have Insurance?

In any business there will always be some type of risk. Insurance has been a tool used by individuals and companies for many years...

Occupational Hazards and the Future

devise different methods of handling problems like carpal tunnel syndrome. There are laws on the books for example that are relate...

Articles for Assessing Hazards increase Fall Risk for Elederly Community Based Patients

The paper is written as an annotated bibliography looking at research on environmental factors which may impact on fall rates for...

The Hazards of Soda Consumption

This research paper describes the negative health effects of drinking soda. Three pages in length, five sources are cited. ...

Chile's Natural Hazards

In eight pages this paper discusses volcanoes, floods, and earthquake tsunami as they relate to the Chilean geography. Six source...

At Risk Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters by Piers Blaikie

In five pages this report considers a disaster's aftermath and people's vulnerability as represented in this 1996 theoretical text...

Public Places and the Hazards of Smoking

include at least forty different proven carcinogens (in humans and other animals) and more than 200 poisons, such as aromatic hydr...

Baby Powder's Health Hazards

the following: "Keep in mind that many obese patients develop intertrigo, a mild fungal infection within their skinfolds that powd...

Ecological Crisis of the Earth

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

Funding for Disaster Relief and the Federal Government's Role

has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...

Cape Fear Water Quality and Waste Management

were more than 25 million gallons of waste involved (Mallin, 2000, p.26). This occurred on one particular day, but the days follow...

Critique of Hurricane Wind Shelter Construction for Existing Homes

Safe Room, the conclusion is that more individuals will be able to retro fit their house with this shelter. This would in turn al...

Hurricane Relief and Waterproof Fabrics

waterproof fabrics or creating a list of likely contributors to NGOs, which then will acquire necessary materials. Outdoor Fabrics...

Cost Factors in the Construction Industry

box" home stores continue to affect building materials; and employment reached a record high (First Quarterly Cost Report 2006, 20...

The 2006 Hurricane Season: The Importance of Predictions

managers. Pre-planning is one of the most critical components of disaster preparedness. Hurricane preparations must begin months...

A Brief History on the Most Devastating U.S. Hurricanes

While a relatively weak hurricane would have done little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms ...

Considerations in Emergency Management

between August 25 and August 30, 2005, was one of the worst hurricanes of history. Hurricane Katrina howled ashore destroying ent...