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Protecting the safety of our employees and the environment is a core value within Facilities Management. We will not be satisfied until our workplaces are safe from hazards, our employees are injury-free, our services are safe, and our commitment and record of protecting the environment are unmatched. Specifically, this handbook requires the following of every Facilities Management employee…
Sleepiness is the major contributor to at least 20% of all road crashes. Sleepiness-related crashes are likely to be more severe, more often fatal, and more often involve young drivers, than other types of crash. Safe driving is a complex task, in which drivers require higher-order perceptual and cognitive skills to interact safely with the traffic environment. Hazard perception (HzP) is a cri…
During the month of July 2007, unrelenting rains dumped over 120 millimetres of rain over a period of five days on the City of Cape Town, leading to flooding that impacted 8 000 households (38 000 residents) located primarily in the informal settlements outside of the City, such as the Bongani TR Section of Khayelitsha (Figure 1) and Phola Park Philippi. Such flooding is increasingly common an…
Technology and it’s take up and use by individuals and business has transformed how we run our lives and our businesses over the past sixty years. That rate of change is accelerating as we find new uses for ever more capable technologies which can be applied to more areas of our lives than imagined even ten years ago. Today we are learning and being trained to be capable members of the workfo…
This is the purpose of Values Sell: Transforming Purpose into Profit Through Creative Sales and Distribution Strategies. Our goal is to share ideas and techniques that have proved successful for other small businesses and to provide you with strategies that will help you develop your own “creative game plan” for increasing sales and more efficiently distributing your product.
This book looks at advanced computer networking. It first guides readers through network infrastructure design. The readers are then introduced to configuring static, RIPv2, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP routing protocols, techniques for configuring Juniper router, managing the network infrastructure, analyzing network data traffic using Wireshark, network security, IPv6, Linux networking, Internet routing…
The goal of having computers automatically solve problems is central to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the broad area encompassed by what Turing called “machine intelligence” (Turing, 1948). Machine learning pioneer Arthur Samuel, in his 1983 talk entitled “AI: Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going” (Samuel, 1983), stated that the main goal of the fields of machine l…
With an increasing number of technologies being added to the marketing toolkit, marketers are beginning to view technology as a key component of their overall strategy. Without question, marketers are at the apex of digital evolution. Functional marketing silos are going away, and data and applications are now being tightly connected for improved customer lifecycle management, omni-channel…