Sentences with phrase «including areas of risk»

Governments are focusing on directors and companies» business operations, including areas of risk exposure (e.g., executive compensation and related party transactions), demanding meaningful and comprehensive reporting from all directors and management levels.

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Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

The way you mitigate food safety risk is through internal controls, including segregation of duties, restricted areas, approval, records and reconciliations and a culture of food safety and not cutting corners.

Mr. Chisholm joined Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York in 1985 and he served in a variety of progressively senior leadership roles within the organization during his 30 - year career, including as Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group in both London and New York from 2002 to 2012 where he focused on areas such as strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, risk and capital management and principal investing advisory for financial institutions globally.

The Board benefits from the valuable corporate governance and board leadership experience and expertise that Mr. Hernandez has acquired, including as chairman of Nordstrom, particularly in areas such as business strategy, risk assessment and succession planning.

Her areas of expertise include developing and understanding a personal budget, planning for college expenses, managing risks, tax planning, achieving financial independence, and estate planning.

Name: Chris Fowler, MA Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Areas of responsibility: Executive management, strategy Years with CWB Financial Group: 27 Career history: Has served at CWB in roles with increasing responsibility since 1991, including, commercial account management (1991 - 1995), credit risk (1995 - 2008), and joined the executive team in 2008 as Executive Vice President, Banking, and then President and Chief Operating Officer Education: Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia Community involvement: Trustee for the University Hospital Foundation (University of Alberta), Member of the Canadian Bankers Association's Executive Council, director with the Art Gallery of Alberta's board of directors, and campaign cabinet member with the United Way of Alberta Capital Region

The fifth of our short papers outlining key supply chain risk areas looks at geo - political risks, which include war and revolution as well as labour disputes and the like.

The Centre's key areas of research are common topics for discussion on this blog, including (among others): risk consciousness and parenting culture; the management of emotion and the sacralisation of «bonding»; the policing of pregnancy (including diet, alcohol consumption, smoking); the moralization of infant feeding (including breast and formula feeding, weaning); and The experience of the culture of advice /» parenting support».

This book covers key aspects of hydration and fluid imbalances in athletes of different age groups, sport activities and demands and clinical risk conditions; and it is written by recognized experts in their respective research areas including Professors Michael Bergeron, Ron Maughan and Louise Burke.

Babies left to sleep on their stomachs while on very soft bedding areas are said to be at the highest risk of SIDS of all.Various other external factors also come into play, including whether or not the parents of the baby smoke, if the baby was delivered prematurely and whether or not immediate post-natal care was sufficient, all of which can influence SIDS risk.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

Her areas of expertise include: High Risk Obstetrics, Medical Genetics, Ultrasound, Advanced Maternal Age, Fetal Anomalies, Concurrent Maternal Medical Conditions, Hypertension in Pregnancy, Diabetes in Pregnancy, and Placental Disease.

Each year, 20,000 new properties are built on flood risk areas, including 4,000 in areas of significant flood risk.

[5] Genocide Watch, a monitoring and prevention NGO, has declared Iraq a Genocide Emergency, 78 international genocide scholars (full disclosure: including myself) have signed a letter to the United Nations Security Council and European Union warning of extreme risks of further mass atrocities in areas of ISIS control in Syria and Iraq.

It's structured around ten key areas of professional practice including communication, reporting concerns and managing risk.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

Amongst the areas of his responsibility were overseeing a business specialising in advising central government departments and local government on Insurance risk transfer and being involved in proposing pooling / reinsurance solutions for large clients, including Whitehall.

In 2008 - 9 the ORR revised the way it monitors Network Rail with most of the areas covered in previous annual assessments, including safety risk, train performance, asset performance and planning now included in the Network Rail Q4 monitor.

Goodyear's risk score is higher than the combined scores of the 10 worst - polluting companies operating in the Tonawanda area, including Tonawanda Coke.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

As the researchers looked at area - level data, they note their findings may not apply to individuals living in those areas as they may have different individual - level cardiovascular risk factors, length of residence in the particular area, time activity patterns including commuting to work, and the direction in which the windows on their residence face varies.

Students of the Courant Institute program will seek jobs in a variety of areas in finance, including derivatives pricing and trading, risk management, asset management, and financial software development.

High - risk areas include more than half of Latin America — where the virus is now circulating — as well as parts of South and Southeast Asia, Northern Australia, and a broad swath of Africa around the equator.

She assessed the environmental effects of these dams in 14 categories, including the area and quality of habitat lost, the length of river channel affected, the amount of conservation land impacted, and the landslide risk.

One of the areas emphasized by HSD in 2006 is decision - making, risk, and uncertainty, which includes studies of risk perception, responses to hazards and extreme events, and the role played by educational systems in that response.

The members of the initiative hope to improve early detection of cancer by making an impact in a variety of areas, including doing epidemiologic studies on risk factors, developing new and improved methods of diagnostic imaging, discovering and verifying new biomarkers as indicators of cancer, and developing new technologies to aid early detection.

The second also included areas with Aedes aeqypti occurrence and the third included both A. aeqypti and A. albopictus occurrence — these scenarios each increased the size of the region at risk.

Countries with large volumes of travellers arriving from Zika virus - affected areas of the Americas and large populations at risk include India (67422 travellers arriving per year; 1.2 billion residents in potential Zika transmission areas), China (238415 travellers; 242 million residents), Indonesia (13865 travellers; 197 million residents), the Philippines (35635 travellers; 70 million residents), and Thailand (29241 travellers; 59 million residents).

Abnormally dry areas expanded in the U.S. western Corn Belt, including the top crop state of Iowa, over the past week to put much of the corn crop at risk, according to a weekly drought report.

Michele Carbone, senior author on the study, states «further research is needed, including epidemiological, geological, mineralogical and health - based personal exposure studies in order to characterize the residential and occupational history of the malignant mesothelioma cases we studied, to highlight the highest risk areas within Clark and Nye counties, to identify the type of fibrous minerals and their precise distribution throughout Nevada, and to identify the activities responsible for the release of fibers in the air, which may be the cause of some of the malignant mesothelioma in this region.»

The effects of the cyanobacterial blooms include a higher cost for cities and local governments to treat their drinking water, as well as risk to swimmers in high concentration areas, and a nuisance to boaters when blooms form.

High - risk regions of the world include areas of Africa and Central and South America, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

With the cooperation of local governments, researchers sampled and tested 19,192 bats, rodents, non-human primates, and humans in areas where the risk of animal - to - human transmission is greatest, including sites of deforestation, ecotourism, and animal sanctuaries.

Other ideas for getting a better handle on the true burden of U.S. - acquired Chagas cases include doing broad blood surveys of all people — not just blood donors — living in suspected high - risk areas and identifying what behaviors are associated with infection.

Officials warned that more than 12 million people were at risk, including residents of Cebu City, which has a population of about 2.5 million, and areas still reeling from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.2 - magnitude quake last month.

Obesity is recognized as a leading risk factor for a range of serious diseases, including heart disease, stroke and diabetes, and its treatment represents an area of compelling unmet medical need.

«PRISM has the potential to offer an attractive solution to the disposition of civil plutonium and we look forward to working with GEH as they progress with their proposals to deploy PRISM in the U.K.» The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has contracted GEH to carry out feasibility work in a number of key areas including the proposed commercial structure, disposability of the fuel, risk transfer model, costs and licensability of GEH's PRISM offering

Conservation and management actions will include extending the habitat into favourable adjacent areas, implementing measures to reduce the risk of fires, and removal of invasive alien plant species.

Areas of focus include teen driver safety, reducing risk - taking behavior, child passenger safety, post-injury care and recovery.

In 2012, a research team that included NIU's Walker Ashley, a professor of meteorology in the geography department, found that in comparison to rural areas, large cities in the Southeast had a much higher risk of experiencing heavy rainfalls associated with summertime thunderstorms.

As University Secretary, Roger is responsible for key areas of University life, including corporate governance; audit and risk management; and supporting the University's governing bodies (including the Senate and the Council) and other main committees.

The firm served several of the largest financial services companies of the world including asset management, credit card, insurance and lending companies in the areas of investment optimization, target marketing and risk management.

«We used an extensive vetting process to ensure that patients included in the study were present in at - risk counties at the time of the accident and to confirm, to the greatest extent possible, that patients resided in affected areas for their entire lives.

Research on alcohol consumption and health risks is always going to have limitations, says Boolbol, since most studies in this area — including the studies in both of these reviews — are observational, rather than randomized clinical trials.

The World's Healthiest Foods has this to say about strawberries: «Given their unique combination of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, it's not surprising to see strong research support for strawberry health benefits in three major areas: (1) cardiovascular support and prevention of cardiovascular diseases (2) improved regulation of blood sugar, with decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, and (3) prevention of certain cancer types including breast, cervical, colon, and esophageal cancer.»

Issues for discussion can include: the development of the specification and the tender process; the separation of the refurbishment area from the remainder of the school; the use of low voltage / battery pack hand tools; COSHH assessments and why they are required when using hazardous substances; hazard spotting and the need for good housekeeping; safeguarding and use of mobile phones on site; working at height as the largest cause of workplace accidental death; noise and the potential for hearing loss, methods of communication; and any other relevant hazard and risk control.

All member companies believe strongly in the benefits of managed risk in play and ensure that every play area they design includes plenty of challenging play equipment.

Further considerations Other good risk management advice will include checking the insurances of contractors who come on site, ensuring all those driving vehicles owned by the academy have their driving license checked and ensuring risk assessments are completed, in writing, for activities and areas of the site, which are reviewed on a regular basis.