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Risikostyring i kraftsektoren: idealer møter praksis
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-07-07)Formålet med studien er å undersøke hvilke faktorer som kan hindre virksomheter i å oversette idealer som fremstilles til risikostyring til praksis i virksomheten. Disse idealene til risikostyringsprosessen fremstilles ... -
Risikostyring og registrering av frost- og kuldeskader i Forsvaret
(Master thesis, 2017-10)Sammendrag Bakgrunn og formål Det Norske Forsvaret er utpekt av North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) til å være «Center of excellence - cold weather operations» (COE-CWO). Dette innebærer at Forsvaret holder kurs ... -
Risikostyring ved sykling i tunneler i Troms
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-07-15)Denne oppgaven handler om hva som må til for å tillate sykling i tunneler i Troms. I mitt arbeid i Statens vegvesen har jeg møtt en del automatiske nei når det gjelder sykling i tunnelene. I dag skjer det sykling i en ... -
Risikovurdering av klinisk sykepleiearbeid. Utvikling av en modell for risikovurdering ved utskrivelse av pasient fra sykehus til sykehjem
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-10-13)Innledning: Tidligere studier av helsetjenesten viser at overføring av pasienter fra et tjenestenivå til et annet øker risikoen for en uønsket hendelse. Samtidig sees det et forbedringspotensiale i arbeidet med samhandling ... -
Risikovurdering av mottak og lagring av slopvann hos SAR Treatment AS - barrierestyring
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-HH/2013;, Master thesis, 2013)Bakgrunn for oppgaven er at avfallsindustrien har fått mye kritikk de siste årene etter flere alvorlige ulykker, og tilsynsmydighetene stiller spørsmål til om risikonivået er akseptabelt. Petroleumstilsynet (Ptil) har ... -
En risikovurderingsprosess i fra skrivebord til praksis
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-17)En kvalitiativ casestudie av en risikovurderingsprosess I fra skrivebord til praksis. En undersøkelse av bakenforliggende faktorer som kan ha påvirkning på implementering av en arbeidsprosess. -
Rising externality costs and corporate social responsibility. Case: EU legislation on Electric and Electronic Equipment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Purpose – The purpose of this article is to study how we may identify the link between rising externality costs and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by using a market centric approach to CSR. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Risk assessment of beta-carotene in food supplements. Scientific opinion of the Panel on Nutrition, Dietetic Products, Novel Food and Allergy
(VKM Report;, Research report, 2015)Beta-carotene is a provitamin, i.e. a precursor of vitamin A (retinol), which is classified as an essential nutrient for humans. Beta-carotene is one of many carotenoids found in plants, fungi and bacteria. Carotenoids are ... -
Risk assessment on use of Lactobacillus rhamnosus (LGG) as an ingredient in infant formula and baby foods (II)
(VKM Report;, Research report, 2007)On 10. March 2006 , The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) decided that, on the basis of VKM’s previous risk assessment (2005), Nutramigen 1 with Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) could not be marketed in Norway ... -
Risk communication and gender based violence: a case of child marriage and obstetric fistula in North Central Nigeria
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-15)Gender based violence, often targeted against girl children in the name of child marriage has profound health problems, compromising victim’s physical and mental health as well as eroding their self-esteem. In addition to ... -
Risk Communication Between Companies and Local Stakeholders for Improving Accident Prevention and Emergency Response
(SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology: Safety Management;, Chapter, 2018)Hazardous industrial areas pose major accident risks. In recent years, two innovative approaches have been used for improving accident prevention and emergency response beyond conventional regulatory requirements: the ... -
Risk Communication in Nature-based Tourism
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)Nature-based tourism is experiencing a rapid growth in Norway accompanied by the change of tourists’ interests from being passive spectators to active experiences. All this gives some new challenges to the Norwegian tourism ... -
Risk limits, conflict, and equilibrium selection in games with multiple equilibria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)A risk limit conflict measure is developed as the product of the two players’ maximum probabilities of being recalcitrant when pursuing a preferred equilibrium. Although the justification for it is different, the measure ... -
Risk management in a humanitarian context - how can the application of risk management activities to initial registration in Dadaab increase societal safety?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)The aim of this thesis is to establish the relationship between initial registration and societal safety, to make the reader aware of how the UNHCR in Dadaab is conducting initial registration, and to show that the application ... -
Risk perception in health care : a study of differences across organizational interfaces
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Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)This article presents an analysis of risk perception among chain newspaper CEOs in Scandinavia. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the analysis finds that risk is perceived in relation to public trust, corporate ... -
Risk perception of festival audience: an application of psychometric paradigm
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-24)The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived risk level indicated by audiences for six contemporary hazards in an open door music festival, seeing as it is an overlooked issue in the literature. In order to ... -
Risk regulation in the North Sea : a common law perspective on Norwegian legislation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The paper include an assessment of the development of the Norwegian regulatory system based on legislative written text, but also compare the impact (efficiency/effectiveness) of the regulatory regime. The theoretical basis ... -
Risk, price, and reimbursement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article offers five hypotheses for the inverse relationship between risk and price in terms of first and second derivatives, establishing ranges of convexity, linearity, concavity. Negative price means reimbursement. ... -
Risk, production and conflict when utilities are as if certain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article analyses a production and conflict model of risk, supplementing the common rent seeking analysis. Agents differ in attitudes toward risk, productive efficiencies, fighting efficiencies and resources for production ...