This was the case in Sichuan, China in 2008 where severe ground shaking was the direct cause of death, injury and the catastrophic destruction of hospitals, roads and other infrastructure. An estimated 5.4 million buildings collapsed and a further 21 million were damaged. In poorer areas such as rural China, buildings are compromised despite strict regulations due to poor quality construction work and corruption meaning the correct materials is not used. Since 1976 China has had a stringent earthquake building code. Before the quake, millions of buildings in Sichuan pre-dated the 1976 code.
(Tsukiyama 51)” Due to the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, the Japanese had to cut down on imports to pay for the materials for railway and ship building industries. The American embargoes prevented any goods from exporting to Japan therefore the Japanese began to experience shortage of food and other necessities. After the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the American embargoes stopped all Western imports to Japan which caused a huge crisis because Japan was running out of fresh resources (Graham, James, “Japan's Economic Expansion"). This caused havoc in Japan which was vividly portrayed as Hiroshi and his family struggle to survive, rationing every bit of their resources.
It would result in services being unable to reach areas due to the flooding and many more lives could potentially be lost. Human factors however, are huge in earthquake hazards. The main human factor is the fact that we have settled near/on fault lines and live in areas that we know are vulnerable to earthquakes. Along with this there are issues such as building on reclaimed land which can lead to liquefaction and whole areas are destroyed due to being unsafe to live in. This also leads to fires starting which add to the death toll.
* Informing your employer where the practice of colleagues maybe unsafe. * Helping service users to make complaints. * Complying with employers health and safety policies. * Recognising and using responsibly the power that comes with your work with services users and carers. 1.2Explain how duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals Following a Code of Practice and thinking about your duty of care means that your practice will be safer because you will stop to think if you are working in the best interests of the person you are supporting and if you are keeping them from harm.
The law on confidentiality and restrictive covenants are in place to ensure that employer’s business interests are protected. Employers may rely on mechanisms such as the confidentiality clauses and restrictive covenants to protect their businesses from damaging competition, disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information. The objective of these provisions is to avoid employees from abusing they employer’s business interests when the employment has come to end. The degree of protection provided to employers differs if the employee has ended the contract of employment. The implied duty of fidelity protects business interests and imposes a obligation employee must not disclose any information or trade secrets of their employers business.
Ethics are the moral principles and standards that guide an individual’s or a group’s behavior. Ethics are important to the planning process because they are used when deciding how to implement organizational activities to meet goals. For example, if an employee acting ethically has knowledge of his or her colleague using company resources such as a company vehicle to take care of personal responsibilities, the individual would not question what he or she should do about the situation. The right thing to do would be to report the incident, which could save the organization money and display the individual’s dedication to upholding standards in keeping with the organization’s best interests. The text provided details for why it is so important to follow the ethical norms of society.
The storing of such data calls for necessary security that would protect the employees’ privacy on their information from any litigation or theft. For Huffman Trucking to ensure the protection of employees’ information, it must address the risks related to the safeguarding of confidential information. That is, the company will ensure that no harm would come to the business. However, irresponsive of the procedure of handling the crucial information, the company must implement security measures to effectively safeguard the data, and the assets of the business, as well, from inherent threats such as litigation and
Ethical standards are the code of conduct required by the organization for workers to follow. The relationship between organizational culture and ethics is that the organizational culture guides workers when faced with ethical problems. If the organization culture counters what they are required to do ethically, workers may put the organization in jeopardy by not act ethically. When a worker is faced with a decision that others within the organization think as appropriate, though it is unethical, the worker may follow what is acceptable as per the culture. It is the relationship between organizational culture and ethics that can get businesses into significant trouble in the long term.
Gonzalez Jesse Period 3 5/5/2011 Japan and Haiti’s earthquake Japan and Haiti, two countries that got hit by enormous earthquakes. Japan of the richest countries in the world, was shookened by a 9.0 magnitude after a tsunami and then nuclear crissis. Haiti, one of the poorest countries, got hit by a 7.0 earthquake and then an outbreak known as cholera. Japans earthquake caused a lot of casualties , damage, and weakened its economy. Haitis earthquake had casualties, a lot of damge, and their economy was weaker than it was.
From Ethical system perspective, making and sustaining a strong ethical culture is key to creating a organization which encourages people to make good ethical decisions and behaving ethical every day. There are many factors, which lead people to take ethical shortcuts. But when factors increases or made to exploit ethical standards, ethical culture in whole corporate tends to failure of ethical standards at all level. Our perception of whether we do “what’s right” depends on things such as situation, time frame or (Oldhand, 2016)expectation of others. Ethics are like rules and when it is exploited for any reason which is as judged by us is right, can also be wrong to the others observing.