Safety aspects influencing emergency response on offshore installations and the influence of economic, legislative, safety management and safety engineering factors on the safety of the workforce are reviewed. The main objective of developing optimum strategies for emergency response is to reduce the risk to personnel by reducing the likelihood of precipitate or inappropriate decisions being made. This involves a judicious balance of significant predictive factors, namely: the estimated risk to personnel whilst remaining onboard and during evacuation, escape, recovery and rescue; and the estimated time required to gain control of an undesired event (or reach untenable conditions) and for evacuation and escape. The research focuses on the provision of significant information to the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM). A methodology is presented to assist in the development of optimum strategies for emergency response and in the design of a computer-based Emergency Response Information (ERI) system for providing the information. A fiamework is presented to assist in: identifying events, sequences and combinations of events and their potential consequences; and defining event type, severity and priority for emergency response. Typical resources and arrangements for responding to emergencies are reviewed and their adequacy for the effective employment of the ERI system evaluated. Typical information required at applicable activity stages is identified for defined areas of emergency response for events of varying degrees of severity. A statement of sensible and feasible' requirements of a typical ERI system is presented. A critical evaluation is presented of the feasibility of the design, manufacture and operation of the ERI system to provide the information and achieve specified requirements, namely: performance standards (functionality, reliability and survivability); and ergonomic and human resources requirements. The research concludes by examining ways in which the philosophy described in the thesis can be implemented in practice. A methodology for presenting the information is described.

This diploma thesis deals with assessment of the organization's information system. This work is divided into two parts. The first part addresses theoretical description of the information systems and the definition of risks. The second part addresses the objectives of this work, which is the analysis of the current condition of the organization’s information system, identification of risks and suggestions of changes that aims to improve the current state of system and to eliminate discovered risks.

The thesis is focused on a Czech construction company that has been established in the Czech market in the field of steel construction and glass facades. The company belongs among middle-sized construction companies. Its development had a few phases and its progress was influenced by the global financial crisis. The aim of the thesis was to analyse current company’s information system, to find its weaknesses and risks connected with its operation and to suggest precautions leading to overall improvement and elimination of investigated risks. General analyses were elaborated in cooperation with management and employees of the company using questionnaire methods of ZEFIS portal. After discovery of defections and risks in current information system there were precautions leading to elimination of risks and improvement of overall state suggested.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-416).

Master of Science - Agricultural Education and Communication / Department of Communications and Agricultural Education / Jason D. Ellis / Genetically modified crops have been beneficial to farmers in terms of saved time, money, and energy while increasing yields and often times reducing pesticide dependency. These benefits outweigh the increased costs, allowing genetically modified crops to become one of the fastest adopted farm technologies in history. Despite overwhelming approval of genetically modified crops among farmers, consumers have been hesitant to consume genetically modified food. Consumers see genetically modified food as a risk without immediate reward. Millennial consumers are a powerful population segment that rivals or overtakes other population segments in terms of size, influence, and purchasing abilities. Yet, they are often lumped into one homogenous group by marketers when they are a diverse group comprised of unique segments. The purpose of this study was to better understand how millennial consumers find and process risk information about genetically modified food so that agricultural communicators can better strategize communication efforts. Applying the Situational Theory of Publics and the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model, this study went one step further by differentiating between Supportive and Non-supportive publics. The research objectives of this study are as follows: 1) Identify the individual characteristics of both Supportive and Non-supportive millennial publics of genetically modified food; 2) Examine relevant channel beliefs of Supportive and Non-supportive millennial publics of genetically modified food; 3) Identify and describe the information gap of Supportive and Non-supportive millennial publics of genetically modified food; 4) Define the perceived information gathering capacity of Supportive and Non-supportive millennial publics of genetically modified food; and 5) Characterize the information seeking and processing behavior of Supportive and Non-supportive millennial publics of genetically modified food. An Internet survey was distributed to individuals between the ages of 18 and 36 within the United States. The majority of Non-supportive publics had a high level of issue involvement and the majority of Supportive publics had a low level of issue involvement. Meaning, the majority of Non-supportive publics are more active about the issue than Supportive publics. Age was found to be correlated with systematic processing and information avoidance with older millennials more likely to systematically process information and less likely to avoid information. Additionally, this study found that regardless of knowledge level, wealthier individuals who do not support genetically modified food are more likely to be actively involved in the issue and wealthier individuals who support the technology are more likely to be passive about the issue. The majority of millennial publics in all eight groups reported a knowledge deficit to some degree. The research also found that heuristic processing was negatively correlated to systematic processing and higher levels of information avoidance were negatively correlated with lower levels of active information seeking. Non-supportive Active publics (high issue involvement/high knowledge) were found to have the highest mean active information seeking and systematic processing scores and lowest mean heuristic processing and information avoidance scores; supporting past findings that knowledge does not always equate to support and that communication practitioners may have trouble changing the opinion of a large portion of Non-supportive publics.

This diploma thesis deals with the selection of a suitable information system, which should help to streamline business processes and adapt to the competition. The information system is selected for the accounting office ProfiAccount s.r.o. based on their predetermined needs and requirements. The first part of the thesis devotes the theoretical basis to acquaint readers with the issue of information and communication technologies. The second part analyzes the current state of the system in the company based on selected analyzes. The most important part is the selection of the system itself on the basis of content, business and technical criteria. The diploma thesis is supplemented by risk analysis, which is an integral part of every project and process.

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知覺風險最早由Bauer(1960) 提出，認為消費者購買行為可視為一種風險 承擔，其後經多位學者不斷的研究及驗証。本文基於台灣汽車銷售量每年 均有穩定的成長，汽車消費者行為成為汽車業者必須正視的問題，特針對 汽車購買者的知覺風險進行研究。本文知覺風險值分由績效、財務、社會 、及身體風險四個構面加總，每個風險構面分數則就購買後產生不利結果 ，其主觀上所知覺的可能性及損失嚴重性兩項分數相乘而得。並依知覺風 險值分為低、中、高三個知覺風險群。結果發現：(1) 汽車購買者知覺風 險程度在性別、年齡、教育程度及全家月所得上有顯著差異；(2) 各知覺 風險群在產品涉入上有顯著差異；(3) 各知覺風險群的資訊搜集策略有顯 著差異。

Bakgrund   Bakgrunden ger uppsatsen en kort förklaring till vad risk är, vilka faktorer som bidragit till att riskrapportering blivit en viktig del av svenska företags årsredovisningar samt vilka riktlinjer som finns vid framtagande av risker. Syfte  Studiens syfte är att undersöka huruvida ett företags storlek påverkar hur många riskkategorier företag behandlar i sin årsredovisning. Dessutom syftar studien till att undersöka om företagens bransch påverkar hur många risker som tas upp i årsredovisningen. Vårt bidrag till forskningen är att se om storlek samt bransch kan förklara hur många riskkategorier som tas upp i årsredovisningen. Metod  Studien använder sig av en kvantitativ forskningsmetod med en deduktiv ansats där två hypoteser formats med hjälp av tidigare forskning. Studien använder sig av en innehållsanalys på 100 stycken börsnoterade företag. Den insamlade empirin kommer från respektive företags riskavsnitt i deras årsredovisning. Materialet har sedan kodats om i SPSS till olika variabler där studien sedan använder sig av en multivariat regressionsanalys för att få fram statistiska resultat.  Slutsats  Studien visar att storleken på företaget har betydelse för hur många riskkategorier företagen redovisar i sina riskavsnitt, större företag involverar generellt sett fler riskkategorier än mindre företag. Likaså visar studien att företagens bransch påverkar till viss del vilka olika riskkategorier som involveras i årsredovisningen. / Background The background gives the paper a short explanation as to what a risk is, what factors have contributed to risk disclosures becoming an essential part of annual reports and what guidelines are in place for risk reporting. Purpose The study aims to investigate whether company size affects how many risk categories a company discloses in the annual report. Furthermore the study also aims to investigate whether the industry type of a company affects the amount of risk categories disclosed in the annual report.   Method  The study uses a quantity based research strategy with a deductive approach where two hypotheses are formed based on prior scientific findings. The study uses content analysis which includes 100 listed companies. The empiric data is collected from each company’s risk section in their annual report. The material was later coded in SPSS to their different variables where the study uses a multiple regression analysis to collect statistical results Conclusion Our study shows that the company's size is related to how many risk categories companies disclose in their annual report, larger companies generally involve more risk categories than smaller companies. Furthermore the study concludes that a company’s industry in certain cases affects the amount of risk categories that is incorporated in the annual report.