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Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...et al., 1995). These proportions justify the emphasis we have given in this unit to the dispersion of releases and to fire. As a result, we shall return to the all too common problem of fires to illustrate the principles in developing a hierarchy of causes of incidents. There will always be a great temptation to view many of the incidents presented in this unit with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...et al., 2013, p. 1040) This work suggests that CFL and LED bulbs exceed the USA regulatory limits for various metals by some considerable margin. This does not mean that the bulbs are therefore toxic, but it does mean they exceed the regulatory limits. (It may be the limits are too stringent.) The energy-efficient light bulb is but one example of where an innovation to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which he wanted to his airy and majestic fancy. The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at...
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Article 15 mins
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...et al., 2014). Similarly, practice can vary between different types of practitioners. Some psychiatrists who have medical training might take more account of social factors than others. Some community psychiatric nurses focus on monitoring medication and others on more psychological approaches such as specific forms of talking or behavioural therapy. However, while some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...et al, 2000; Reiter-Palmon and Illies, 2004). Problems can come in the form of opportunities as well as obstacles, so in this course the term ‘challenges’ will be used to reflect the complex and interrelated problems that leaders often face in turbulent, changing times. [Described image] Figure 1 Overcoming challenges A leadership challenge is a situation that leaders...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...et al., 1999, Kojima, 2010). Ghrelin is often called the ‘hunger hormone’, although its name is derived from a different function – causing the release of growth hormone (Growth Hormone Release Inducing). It is released into the blood when the stomach is empty and travels to the brain. There, it acts on a control centre in the brain called the hypothalamus and makes...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...et al. (2022), a hybrid culture will only work if you treat everyone as working remotely. This ensures that everyone gets the same information, tools and opportunities to succeed, and it doesn’t differ according to where they sit and whether they are working at a desk in an office, hot-desking in a collab space, or at home. They feel that a successful hybrid culture...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...circulation in post-independent Fiji … [But] … democracy died in Fiji on 14 May 1987 and with it, my hopes of returning home. It was also the beginning of a long and seemingly endless struggle to secure refuge in my ‘imagined home’ in England, and to join a long line of political dissidents in exile … But who would provide refuge to me? The most obvious and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs