In Sweden there are 299 000 working in the construction industry. The construction industry is one of the industries where most accidents occur every year. During the last ten years there have been 111 death accidents in the construction industry and 48 of them were falling accidents. That means, in average, one death accident every month.Falling accidents gives serious injuries to the persons who are affected by them. It is anticipated that this report will investigate the factors beyond the falling accidents and also to present proposals that can decrease the number of falling accidents in the future.To secure a healthy and safe construction site it is of great importance that both the employers and the employees cooperate towards the same goal.

The purpose of this essay is to examine how two riding schools work with their safety. Riding is one of the most popular sports in Sweden but also very dangerous. Sweden has a lot of riding schools and almost half a million that rides. Therefore it?s very important that riding, and especially riding at riding schools has the highest level of safety with regards to harmful events.The purpose leads to the overarching research question for this essay, which is: How does the Safety work look at two riding schools in the area of Karlstad? Out of this question, seven specified research questions have been constructed.

Slutet av 1990-talet var början till slutet för många IT-företag när den så kallade IT-bubblan började spricka. Gemensam nämnare för de företag som överlevde var att de hade en genomtänkt strategi med en stabil ägarstruktur, god ledning, trogna kunder och stabil omsättning. Sedan december 2007 har tendenser visats att Sverige är på väg in i en lågkonjunktur som kommer att hålla i sig under 2008 och 2009. Med lågkonjunkturen följer även en minskad vilja att konsumera vilket leder till svårare tider för företag. Mot denna bakgrund, samt ett befintligt intresse för strategiarbete i små företag, inleddes studien med följande problemformulering: Hur bör små företag i en tillväxt arbeta för att förebygga strategisk drift? Syftet för studien var att förstå hur små företag i tillväxt arbetar med kontinuerliga strategifrågor samt att presentera rekommendationer för att motverka strategisk drift till de undersökta företagen.

Älgstammen orsakar genom bete skador på skog som får negativa effekter för skogsbruket. Skötseln av skogen kan anpassas för att minska omfattningen av dessa skador. Den här studien undersökte två scenarier av skogsskötsel. Det första scenariot, kallat grundskötsel, utformades efter Sveaskogs inställningar för skogsbruk och det jämfördes med ett scenario: betesanpassning. Betesanpassningen innehöll en skogsskötsel med motivet att hålla älgbetesskador vid en lägre nivå. Scenarierna bestod båda två av en simulering och en optimering.

This study concerns the energy future of the county of Stockholm up until 2050 and describes how the energy consumption can be compared to today with the use of scenario methodology. Within energy future studies the backcasting approach is well known and has been put to use in this study. Due to the characteristics of backcasting the study is self-fulfilling, i.e. the future energy scenarios presented in this study satisfy the targets set up in this study. In the light of what may be the largest challenge of our time ? the climate change - the aim of this study is to describe how the energy consumption in a fossil fuel free Stockholm county in the year of 2050 may be.

Our surroundings are currently vulnerable. People can not know when or how to expect nor prepare for a disaster or an accident. The purpose of this essay was to perform a study of the organization and accessibility of psychological and social support in a crisis situation within the community of Lund.To be able to carry out this study we put up a couple of questions that we hoped would guide us, for example; how do the community prepare and set up the service for people in need of support in connection to a crisis situation? As a method we have used qualitative interviews and literature.The results of our study have shown a discrepancy between the ways the community organizes their service for people in a crisis situation caused either by a catastrophe or an untimely death. In case of an untimely death, ordinary resources are estimated to be sufficient while in case of a catastrophe, extraordinary resources are required.

Web services are now a day often mentioned when speaking of systems communicating with each other online. This master thesis describes how we, with a grounded theory, developed a web service from scratch and then used it to describe how to develop a method for this case scenario. The purpose of the web service is to simplify the information exchange between Infra Gaming, which is the company who assigned this project to us, and their customers. This master thesis is not a guide to how you develop a web service. It is a master thesis that describes how we, in three steps, solved the assignment from Infra Gaming and our problem, with a web service..

The last few years have been characterised by increasing online communication and the emergence of social media, made possible by Web 2.0. In society as well as in research, social media is used for knowledge produc- tion and networking. One example of this is Mendeley, a social reference management tool. With answers from users all over the world, this study investigates the use of Mendeley, if the respondents use other social media and if all of this affects scientific communication. The aim is also to study what the respondents think about the future of scientific communication and if this can be related to current tendencies.The theoretic framework for this study is based on Leah Lievrouws research on the Cycle of Scientific Communication and the relationship between the ?Little Science 2.0?-scenario and the ?Big Science Retrench- ment?-scenario.A qualitative web based survey was conducted (41 answers) and complemented with an interview with a professor in environmental sciences.

Mul- och klövsjuka är en av de mest kostsamma sjukdomarna hos produktionsdjur. Sjukdomen orsakas av infektion av ett mul- och klövsjukevirus tillhörande genus Aphtovirus inom familjen Picornaviridae. Mottagliga djurslag för viruset är nöt, gris, får, get, buffel samt ett flertal klövbärande vilda djurarter. År 2001 drabbades Storbritannien av ett utbrott av muloch klövsjuka, utbrottet spreds sedan till flera andra länder, bland annat till Nederländerna. Kostnaderna för utbrottet blev mycket höga, enbart de direkta kostnaderna för smittbekämpning och ersättning till djurägare kostade den brittiska staten 2,7 miljarder pund. Betydande ekonomisk effekt får också de begränsningar i export som läggs på ett land drabbat av mul- och klövsjuka.

A rhetorical analysis of the educational interactive film ?Riskprofilen?, produced by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Swedish: Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap). This essay uses the theories and methods of Procedural Rhetoric, as described by Professor Ian Bogost, and Visual Rhetoric, as described by Professor Brigitte Mral to analyse the interactive and visual component parts of the artefact, and compares them to the intended purposes of the artefact as stated by documents pertaining to its creation, found to be those of educating the public; marketing the agency; and driving traffic to its webpage. The artefact is through analysis found to fulfil the purposes of marketing the Agency and of likely increasing traffic to the website upon which it is hosted. Regarding the primary, educational purpose this analysis finds that the artefact does not teach a user the accident-avoidance strategies it claims to do, but is dependent upon further materials..

Handen har en väldigt stor betydelse i människans liv. Med handen utför vi många olika slags viktiga sysslor. Vi äter, duschar och klär på oss med hjälp av handen. Vi skriver, sportar och utför arbete med handen. Vi hälsar på andra och kramar de som står oss nära med hjälp av handen.

The construction business is one of the most accident prone businesses in Sweden. In order to make it safer it?s vital that all employees of a company report all accidents and incidents that occur. This report intends through qualitative interviews, to analyze the knowledge and attitude towards incident reporting among the employees of the Swedish construction contractor JM.The goal of the thesis work is to hopefully contribute to an increase of employees? awareness on those issues.

Take your phone out from your pocket and look at it. Chances are that a certain California-based company made it; in 2013, it was quite likely. If you flip it over and remove the shell you have added (or look through the protective film), you might also learn that it was assembled in China. Flip it over again and look at the picture of something or someone you find great affection for, protected by yet another thin film. While who made it and who assembled it might vary, and it does not matter from now on, the other parts about protective barriers and personalization might be more accurate.

Since the 19th century the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere hasincreased by 40 percent as an effect of the use of fossil energy sources.Increased concentration of CO2 will likely lead to increased temperature,changes in precipitation, rising sea level and increased frequency of extremeweather like storm events. A step to reduce emissions of CO2 and mitigateclimate change, for the property of Tagel, can be to adopt new silviculturalstrategies and analyse which is the most effective. As a result of that, threescenarios was produced, business-as-usual (BAU), increased set aside landand energy. An introduction of windpower at Tagels estate (property) andeffects on carbon balance was also examined. By using the Heureka systemand LCA-analysis in this study, it showed that the scenario of increased setaside land was the most efficient way to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions for the analysed period of 100 years.

I och med de pågående klimatförändringarna kommer framtidens utomhusgolv att se annorlunda ut än idag. I ett scenario där tjäle och snö inte längre skyddar våra gräsmattor kommer de att bli känsliga för den dagliga användningen under stora delar av året. Hur förhåller vi landskapsarkitekter oss till både brukarnas önskemål och klimatets förutsättningar? Måste vi se över ytanvändningen ? fördelningen av de markmaterial vi använder oss av på platserna vi skapar? Hur ser framtidens utomhusgolv ut?Jag har med detta arbete sökt nya vägar, material och tankar kring hur man i framtiden använder ytorna på bostadsgårdar och i offentlig miljö.