Sentences with phrase «of human risk»

A thorough background search can help to mitigate many kinds of human risk.

This fact also makes such firms more vulnerable to many kinds of human risk failures.

Within the overall risk management strategy dictated by organizational function, the goal of human risk management is to identify and analyze potential sources of risks related to each job role.

I estimate heterogeneity a lot (of human risk attitudes) and the norm there is more or less unimodal distributions.

I'm going to focus on financial risks here, but clever people can generalize to other classes of human risk, like war and terrorism.

The fact is, temporary workers carry the same sorts of human risks as regular full time employees, and perhaps even more.

Not exact matches

«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

«Whenever your human capital is tied up in one particular industry, it may make sense to diversify your investment capital outside of that industry, just because of the amount of risk associated with that.»

This eliminates the risk of human error and provides further peace of mind.

Most of us are inherently risk averse; in the face of a risk, or a bad situation, the human brain is wired to imagine worst - case scenarios, which unfortunately stifles our productivity and makes us feel anxious and stressed.

Doing business in a country that faces allegations of human rights abuses such as Eritrea carries with it a certain amount of reputational risk.

Mining sites can be dangerous environments for humans, and Clearpath's slew of product and service offerings aim to mitigate that risk.

Among the biggest issues oil - and - gas - exploration companies face in the search for new sources of hydrocarbons is putting humans or high - value assets at risk.

Rather than expose miners to the risk of a human error - induced accident involving a multi-ton vehicle, Clearpath takes the driving out of human hands.

To be able to manage these risks, organizations need to have a human monitoring the execution of operations and decisions often left to algorithms.

The reports suggest that there is a large risk of a human version of bird flu erupting in the near future, and show how this could be done in a laboratory.

We have a methodology called «design thinking» that results in innovation from a human point of view, and the companies that were willing to take risks gave us a chance.

«Oftentimes the company will just have an answering machine in human resources with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the time it's ineffective and employees don't use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.

Scientists studying the aftermath of a massive coal - ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that may pose human health risks.

Studies have found that the additive increases risk of certain types of cancer in mice and the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies byproduct 4 - Mel as «possibly carcinogenic to humans.»

One trend that has a lot of value for small, closely held businesses is the hiring of an outside business management firm to cover the accounting, bill / pay, human resource management and risk - management functions tneeded to run a successful small business.

This emotional response to political shocks and risks is typical of investor (or, more broadly, human) behavior.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.

The bigger risk is stymying our chances of ever discovering whether life existed on Mars before human beings and their grubby microbiomes get there.

Recently, Thomas Oberlechner, a founding partner and chief science officer at AltX, gave the example of how human - computer collaboration can enable investment decisions that are more closely aligned with people's decision style, investment preference, risk tolerance, crisis vulnerability, financial values, etc..

Furthermore, a number of these vital processes are very manual, meaning they are subject to the all - too - common risk of human error.

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

«And on top of that, human beings tend to discount small but important risks when it seems advantageous in the short - run.»

It has been relegated to many narrow use cases involving pattern recognition and prediction (some of which are very valuable and useful, such as improving cancer detection, identifying financial risk and fraud, and other high performance computing applications), but it has not developed a general «understanding» of human interactions, human emotions, speech patterns and human responses to information.

True innovation, Peter Diamandis says, means accepting risk — and failure Peter Diamandis sees a future filled with brilliant innovation — with cars that drive themselves, software that can diagnose illnesses and humans populating new planets like subdivisions — but not without a lot of failure before we get there.

For Lloyds, the German capital's appeal is that it already has the bank's main European hub with a full management team in place, including the finance, risk and human resources staff required of a full subsidiary.

The company uses an algorithm to trade stocks, which theoretically maximizes the yield of investments while reducing overhead costs and the risks associated with human trading.

Paul Rocco, president of Provectus Robotics Solutions, uses similar types of technology in his company's robots, and says that self - driving vehicles will reduce the risk for human passengers.

Under this initiative, senior Company human resources, compliance, credit, and legal personnel compiled and analyzed extensive information about the Company's incentive plans, including plan documents, eligibility criteria, payout formulas and payment history, and held extensive interviews with business line managers to understand how evaluation of business risk affects incentive plan performance measures and compensation decisions.

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Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

You accept your own risk that the internet or other online communications media may not perform as intended as a result of human, mechanical or other error, despite the efforts of Leith Wheeler, you, or any third party.

Without enhanced due diligence requirements in place Canadian companies face a high risk of causing or contributing to human rights abuses.

She has served on the board since 2001, and has been a member of the Audit, Risk and Human Resources Committees.

Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.

This novel 3 - D animation dives into how our consumption of plastics has affected marine species deaths and increased human health risks, and it explores possible long - term solutions.

Protect your business from malware, hackers, viruses and the most commonly avoidable security risk of all: human error by your own employees.

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But while it might seem like open season on humans in North Carolina, the risk of an attack remains remarkably low.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

The Enterprise Compensation Committee discharges the board of directors» responsibilities relating to the compensation of our executives and directors; reviews and discusses with management the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and performs other reviews and analyses and makes additional disclosures as required of compensation committees by the rules of the SEC or applicable exchange listing requirements; provides general oversight of our compensation structure, including our equity compensation plans and benefits programs, and confirms that these plans and programs do not encourage risk taking that is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Hewlett Packard Enterprise; reviews and provides guidance on our human resources programs; and retains and approves the retention terms of the Enterprise Compensation Committee's independent compensation consultants and other independent compensation experts.

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Moreover, signals sent from balloons located at a distance of 60,000 feet will hardly be of any risk to humans.

We are somewhat more explicit about recognising the potential human cost of financial instability in terms of financial distress and unemployment and are more attuned to the behavioural risks associated with risk cultures and financial innovations.