scholarly journals A Mini-Review and Perspective on Current Best Practice and Emerging Industry 4.0 Methods for Risk Reduction in Advanced Composites Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Bryn Crawford ◽  
Hamid Khayyam ◽  
Abbas S. Milani
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Composites Manufacturing ◽  
Advanced Composites

ChemNet: A Deep Neural Network for Advanced Composites Manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (42) ◽  
pp. 9428-9437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elyas Goli ◽  
Sagar Vyas ◽  
Seid Koric ◽  
Nahil Sobh ◽  
Philippe H. Geubelle
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Composites Manufacturing ◽  
Advanced Composites

scholarly journals Best-Practice Guidelines in Assessment, Risk Reduction, Management, and Surveillance for Post-Breast Cancer Lymphedema

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane M. Armer ◽  
Jennifer M. Hulett ◽  
Michael Bernas ◽  
Pam Ostby ◽  
Bob R. Stewart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines

scholarly journals Improving Disaster Risk Reduction Preparedness and Resilience Approaches in Emergency Response Interventions in African Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Ernest Tambo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Valley Fever ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Resilient Response ◽  
Land Sliding

<p>Increasing globalization, increasing intense urbanization and climate changes have been linked to communities’ hazards and disasters vulnerabilities reported across Africa. Less data and information are documented on national to community disaster risk workforce readiness and resilience capacity in emergency humanitarian crises interventions. The lack of coherent and integrated disaster risk analysis and preparedness, response and recovery programs implementation is a major challenged in the region for decades. This paper highlights natural and man-made emergency hazards and disasters nature and exposure, potential approaches in Africa context. Our findings showed that man-made disasters events were the most documented, uneven in their nature, pattern and trend of occurrence and exposure consequences over time. Emerging and re-emerging outbreaks (Cholera, Polio, HIV, Ebola, Influenza, Rift Valley fever and Meningitis) were the most common, followed by conflicts and hunger, floods and land-sliding disproportionately spread across Africa. We also documented differential inadequacies in effective community risk assessment to emergency management, weak community disaster risk knowledge and attitudes to poorly integrated mitigation and recovery strategies. Leveraging on digital and social media network platforms advances coupled with existing fire, emergency facilities and proven effective hazard/disaster response lessons learnt and experiences are resources in strengthening laboratory capacity and laboratory networks, scaling up proactive displaced people/refugee security and safety standards support and best practice. Strengthening the national Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SDRRF) stewardship and investment (2015-2030) implementation is crucial in improving evidence-based, robust, and effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) community-based programs, in ensuring emergency public health readiness and resilient response capacities and ownership strategies in Africa.</p>

Suicide risk management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry C. Hughes ◽  
Jeffrey L. Metzner
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Correctional Settings ◽  
Continued Learning ◽  
Staff Intervention

There are many risks associated with incarceration, and a substantial one is suicide. Virtually every completed suicide generates litigation. Prevalence, demographics, trends, screening and assessment of suicide risk, and recognition of the key factors associated with increased risk and managing that risk safely and appropriately in jails is presented. The factors relating to increasing suicide risk in prisons are often quite distinct from other correctional settings. Issues such as restrictive housing, facility transfers, loss of community social supports, and chronic management all play potential roles. Proactive recognition of such concerns and active management is critical to effective risk reduction. This chapter discusses such factors in the context of changing prison dynamics and trends. Following completed suicides, a formal protocol is often followed to assist staff in understanding the events that led to the suicide and specifically intervening to address staff feelings that follow such a trauma. Such a process assists quality improvement initiatives, whether in the form of a root cause analysis or other format. Best practice approaches to post-mortem review and staff intervention/ support have been developed and are in use in many facilities. Working to eliminate or reduce the frequency of suicide attempts absolutely requires a staff culture committed to continued learning and improving of both knowledge and skills. This chapter presents a review of the current standards of suicide risk reduction training.

scholarly journals Integrating community based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: examples from the Pacific

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gero ◽  
K. Méheux ◽  
D. Dominey-Howes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Pacific

Abstract. It is acknowledged by academics and development practitioners alike that many common strategies addressing community based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation duplicate each other. Thus, there is a strong push to integrate the two fields to enhance aid effectiveness and reduce confusion for communities. Examples of community based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) projects are presented to highlight some of the ways these issues are tackled in the Pacific. Various approaches are employed but all aim to reduce the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of local communities to the impacts of climate change and disasters. By focusing on three case studies, elements of best practice are drawn out to illustrate how DRR and CCA can be integrated for enhanced aid effectiveness, and also look at ways in which these two often overlapping fields can be better coordinated in ongoing and future projects. Projects that address vulnerability holistically, and target the overall needs and capacity of the community are found to be effective in enhancing the resilience of communities. By strategically developing a multi-stakeholder and multi-sector approach, community projects are likely to encapsulate a range of experience and skills that will benefit the community. Furthermore, by incorporating local knowledge, communities are far more likely to be engaged and actively participate in the project. From selected case studies, commonly occurring best practice methods to integrate DRR and CCA are identified and discussed and recommendations on how to overcome the common challenges also presented.

Advanced composites manufacturing

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 998
Author(s):  
V Bakovets
Keyword(s):  
Composites Manufacturing ◽  
Advanced Composites

scholarly journals Re-conceptualising “Building Back Better” to improve post-disaster recovery

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeeka Mannakkara ◽  
Suzanne Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Community Recovery ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Disaster

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand and define the concept of Building Back Better (BBB) and represent it using a comprehensive framework. Design/methodology/approach – Literature related to the concept of BBB were studied to understand the key concepts which constitute BBB. These concepts were analysed and categorised to form the basis of the proposed BBB framework. Findings – Post-disaster recovery in-line with BBB concepts can be achieved by having a holistic view of four key categories: risk reduction entails improving the resilience of the built environment through improvement of structural designs and land-use planning; community recovery includes addressing and supporting psycho-social recovery of communities and supporting economic rejuvenation; implementation addresses ways in which risk reduction and community recovery practices can be put in place in an efficient and effective way; monitoring and evaluation stretches across the first three categories, and calls for putting in place mechanisms to monitor and evaluate recovery activities to ensure compliance with BBB-based concepts and obtain lessons to improve future disaster management practices. Research limitations/implications – The BBB Framework generated in this study can be used as a foundation to determine best-practice recommendations to implement recovery activities under each of the BBB categories. Practical implications – The BBB Framework forms a guideline to holistically plan and implement recovery programmes in order to BBB. Originality/value – A comprehensive guideline or framework which clarified what BBB really means is currently inexistent. This paper addressed this research gap by amalgamating existing information to create a singular framework to simply and comprehensively represent BBB.

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