Any incident, potential or actual emergency that will not seriously impact the overall operation and functionality of the College is considered a minor emergency. Emergencies at this level should be reported immediately to the Facilities and Operations Department at 253.680.7140. Major Emergency Any incident, potential or actual emergency that affects a large portion of the College and will …
Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Management is an integral and essential part of the way we do our business and is considered an equal part of the wider system for the management of our business. Through effective management, Ensign aims to be the preferred contractor and the favoured employer. The requirements set out in this document constitute the expectations for divisional comp…
Protecting the safety of our employees and the environment is a core value within Facilities Management. We will not be satisfied until our workplaces are safe from hazards, our employees are injury-free, our services are safe, and our commitment and record of protecting the environment are unmatched. Specifically, this handbook requires the following of every Facilities Management employee…
Sleepiness is the major contributor to at least 20% of all road crashes. Sleepiness-related crashes are likely to be more severe, more often fatal, and more often involve young drivers, than other types of crash. Safe driving is a complex task, in which drivers require higher-order perceptual and cognitive skills to interact safely with the traffic environment. Hazard perception (HzP) is a cri…
During the month of July 2007, unrelenting rains dumped over 120 millimetres of rain over a period of five days on the City of Cape Town, leading to flooding that impacted 8 000 households (38 000 residents) located primarily in the informal settlements outside of the City, such as the Bongani TR Section of Khayelitsha (Figure 1) and Phola Park Philippi. Such flooding is increasingly common an…
Network security appears (at least to the author), in some respects, to have come full circle. Many of today’s so-called innovations in network security can in fact, at least in part, be traced back to having originally been implemented in one form or another in the decades-old Orange Book standards. Th e author, having worked with a firewall vendor that in the early 1990s had developed the f…
Eighty percent or more of major marine accidents are caused or influenced by humans and organizations. Research has identified characteristics of high reliability organizations (HRO), organizations which have had few accidents while involved in operations where failure would result in severe consequences. These characteristics have important effects on the safety of marine systems. Assessing …