Plato believed, and attempted to prove, that the justice of the city and the justice of an individual had a direct link to one another.  Plato relied on logic and the use of metaphors as well as the three main parts of the soul that include reason, desire and spirit.  He further believed that four virtues, wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice, also defined the soul of a person.  Plato considered all of his beliefs to be of the utmost importance as he sought to define a perfect republic.

According to Plato, souls that were filled with reason found an interest in knowledge.  He believed that these souls belonged to a class of people known as philosophers and that the virtuous aspect of their soul was wisdom.  Plato assumed that the brain was strongly connected to reason and therefore, people who practiced reason had a strong mind.  Although the evidence was lacking, Plato had made a very good guess when he made this assumption.

In terms of desire, Plato believed that this soul belonged to the commoners and that their virtue was temperance.  He sought to prove that their main interest was pleasure and that this interest rooted from the abdominal parts of the body.  In this situation, he believed that bad forces ruled these people and therefore they had no control over themselves and their behaviors.  These people were enslaved by their overwhelming desires.  This was desire to please themselves and the anatomical parts of their bodies that ruled them.

A person that had a soul full of spirit was believed to be in a class of warriors.  Plato said that their interest was honor and that their virtue was courage.  The spirited soul was closely linked to the heart of a person.  This spirit was the very essence of a person’s soul, the driving force of energy that kept bad influences at bay and allowed them live good, virtuous lives.  These warriors upheld the law, unlike those that were filled with desire.

During his research, Plato tried to link justice to each one of his classifications of the soul.  He found that he could not do this and therefore he placed justice, as a virtue, in all three categories.  He believed that everyone started with a white background and that overtime, certain social classifications and influences “dyed” these backgrounds and defined the souls of each individual.

Within the Republic, moreover, the soul’s tripartite division plays the pivotal role of establishing an analogy between the individual soul and the political state.  According to this model, the soul’s rational element is the psychological corollary of the guardian class in the city; the spirited part is analogous to the militaristic auxiliaries, and the diverse appetites correspond to the various productive craftsmen and traders (Purshouse 60-61).

Within ancient Greek culture, arête means virtue.  It is when a person strives to be as good as they can be in life, reaching their maximum potential as a good and virtuous human being.  Plato believed this to be true for both men and women.  Plato was nearly obsessed with arête and he constantly worked to answer the questions of virtue and justice.  The Platonic philosophy holds a belief in the fact that virtue and knowledge are one in the same and therefore, knowledge and arête are the same as well.  Plato tried to define exactly what arête really was and whether or not it could be taught or if it was something that was learned.

Plato, being a student of the famous Socrates, reinstates the question that Socrates tried to put forth by asking what justice really is.  People who were not raised in intellectual situations were prone to be blacksmiths or farmers, the peasants.  People who were courageous were the guardians of the city, acting as an army or police force.  Intelligent people were considered a rarity and were granted control over city.  It was their job to guide the people, in particular the commoners.  The courageous people were put in charge of guarding this wise group of teachers, their laws, and their beliefs.  Plato also summarizes justice as being defined by those who are strong and intelligent.  He further summarizes that these intelligent and strong souls are the ones who decide what is in the best interest for everyone else.  Socrates, however, refutes this claim since he believes that even those who are strong fail to see what is best.

Plato believed that the state could only find perfect justice if they allow themselves to be ruled by those who are intelligent and not just willingly, they had to enjoy being governed by the intellects.  It was extremely important for Plato to define these three types of souls in order to find a way to perfect the justice of the state.  He thought that if he learned why each individual fell into a particular category of souls that it would be easier to govern them.  He set forth a certain list of activities and teachings that would be given to a certain group of individuals based on their category of souls in order to teach them to ignore their feelings of temperance.

Plato’s theories seemed somewhat radical, even during his own lifetime.  He believed that justice and happiness went hand in hand.  When a person acted in a just fashion, they were a happy individual and vice versa.  Therefore, people that behaved immorally were not happy and if they wanted to be happy, they would strive to be just.  People who wished to fulfill their desires must learn to use reason in order to act upon that just behavior.  They also needed to learn how to control their emotions.  If they used reason to control their emotions and desires, they could reach their full potential as a just and happy human being.  “On the other hand, those simple and moderate desires, which go hand in hand with intelligence and right opinion, under the guidance of reasoning, will be found in a small number of men, that is, in those of the best natures and the best education” (Plato, and Tschemplik 148).

When Plato speaks of justice and happiness, he poses a question that, at times, seems unclear.  It is a choice to live either justly or unjustly.  Each individual makes the decision between right and wrong by their own accord.  Since Plato suggests that people can only find happiness if they are just, this suggestion is a form of guidance, more or less taking away an individual decision and determining what he believes to be just behavior.  However, one argument that we continue to see is that not all things that are just are good.  Therefore, how can we reasonably say that being just leads to happiness?  “The question whether justice is good for us and makes us happy, has more breadth and depth than might at first appear” (Santas 5).

Republic leaves the reader with no choice other than to make a decision as far as what is just and unjust.  The reader has three classifications to choose from which each rival each other in their own way.  Each choice is laid out in a solid and yet philosophical manner as well.  Plato further goes on to say a person cannot choose an answer that is just unless they are first willing to understand exactly what justice is.  We are also forced to choose between the differences in societies and make choices between them as well.

There were several concerns with Plato’s justice system.  In The Republic Plato uses his characters Glaucon and Adeimantus to show readers the voice of objection and concern associated with his ideas about those with spirited souls, otherwise known as the guardians.  He fails to breakdown differences between men and women beyond height and gender itself.  Instead, he proposes that as guardians, men and women with spirited souls should be taught in the same fashion to perform the same roles within society.  He also tears down the importance of family as a role within society by saying that instead of parents teaching their own children, it should be up to society to teach the children.

All three categories of souls, the wise, the courageous and the desirous could become good as a whole if they performed their roles by working together harmoniously and willingly.  If they could manage to act as one, work together to reach for this inner good, they would also reach a perfect justice system.  True justice would arise as a whole once these three souls meshed and willingly performed their function as they were supposed to with one another.  The person who experienced injustices simply lived with both the healthy and unhealthy personality and the unhealthy, unhappy side of that person was the most dominant, refusing to live in harmony.

The traits of the wise and strong were those that were desirable.  People that displayed opposite behaviors needed to be trained so that they could eventually develop these quality traits.  It was a person’s behavior, not their frame of mind, which held the utmost importance in terms of values.  This means that a person could perform a courageous or intellectual act without necessarily being courageous or intellectual.  Since the action of a person receives recognition, it is possible to teach them to perform these actions.  “One can do ‘the courageous thing’ without being courageous.  This links with the other feature of ‘externally’ assessed virtue: a person may perform ‘the courageous act’ out of social conformity, or out of fear of dishonor, and so on – motives which may not differ from those of the genuinely courageous person but be antithetical to them” (Lycos 3).

Socrates greatly contrasted the thoughts of Plato.  He sought to persuade society to determine the depth of a person’s virtue based on internal factors and not external acts.  Furthermore, he believed the state of mind was of the utmost importance instead of the actions of a person.  A person’s state of mind is what allowed them to act a certain way.  If they had a courageous state of mind, it would enable to them to act courageously.  It is because of this reason that Socrates attempted to teach people internally rather than externally.  Virtues would protect the people from the plagues of over excessive temptations and desires so that they can lead a good life.

However, although virtue is regarded as good, it does not necessarily mean that people will be able to avoid any misfortunate events in their life just because they hold strong or intellectual virtues.  Plato felt that trying to study the internal factors of a person could not actually prove whether a person was courageous, intellectual or tempted.  External factors can lead to misery, even for virtuous people.  Moreover, if a person is virtuous they can still perform an action to the best of their ability despite the extenuating circumstances.

If a person is virtuous and good, they do not necessarily please society.  However, if they perform an action that pleases society they are considered virtuous and good.  It is the response received after performing a certain action, which enables a person to call themselves good.  This way of thinking is considered moral subjectivism.  Plato argues against this moral subjectivism and yet he openly admits that an action is only considered virtuous and good based on the properties of that action and the responses acquired from that action.

If we were to judge a person’s morals based on their actions we would not listen to the words that came out of their mouths.  Morals are based on the laws that are set by the political system and community itself.  Thus, a person is moral if their actions follow what the law expects of them and not by what they think or speak.  Plato seeks to encourage people to act morally by teaching them moral behaviors in order to build a utopian and perfect justice system.

Since virtue is always defined by actions, it is for this reason that arête is also defined as “functional excellence”.  In order to understand this definition better an example needs to be used.  A baker’s job is to bake breads for customers.  People who are not bakers are capable of baking bread yet the baker is the best at performing this specific task.  If the previous statement is true then we can agree with the fact that a moral person is more capable of performing a moral action.

Although there are certain jobs that must be performed by each individual within a community, not everyone is going to perform the functions that they are supposed to do.  When we break down all that we have learned about Socrates and Plato’s thoughts on the human soul, we must ask ourselves our own set of philosophical and moral questions.  Can a person be taught to perform certain moral tasks?  To some extent, the answer is yes.  It is possible to teach a person moral behaviors.  However, a person must want to learn and therefore not everyone can be taught which makes a perfect justice system unattainable.

Another thing that we have learned is that a moral action is determined by how pleasing the response is.  If this is the case, then not everything that is done should be considered moral since our need to be pleased by an action should be considered a desire and Plato has already posed the problem that souls filled with desire are problematic and do not follow moral behaviors.  How is it fair to judge a person’s morality based on our own desires?

Adeimantus speaks of a society that needs no guardianship.  He talks about people that are well taught and self-disciplined.  These people are capable of watching themselves and their own behaviors without the need for a law enforcement agency to make them follow any moral behaviors.  This is his description of a perfect and justly educated society.  This would also be considered a Utopian society.  A society such as this would be impossible since people act on their own accord, based on their own freed will.  “Rather than imagine a well-disciplined society that corresponds to the well-disciplined individual, he imagines a society that would require no discipline at all, because each of its members is sufficiently self-disciplined to dispense with social constraint” (Ferrari 37).

Since Plato did not actually answer questions with any specific detail, it may seem hard to understand him.  The arguments that were posed seem somewhat vague and they tend to go back and forth from one conclusion to another.  In short, the one thing that we know is that although his ideas of what defines a soul were good, they were not necessarily correct.  Groups of people do not all share the same virtues.  Within a group of leaders, you may find one that is courageous, another to be wise, and another to be filled with desire and greed.  It is actually an injustice to assume that only intellectual people are rulers.  It is also unfair to claim that only courageous people can protect the law and that only commoners have desires.

Each person will behave how they choose and although outside factors may influence certain behaviors, it is who they are that will determine how they react to those outside influences.  Although it may be possible to guide certain people in order to help them make moral decisions, it is up to the person to make that decision and not those that teach, therefore, Plato’s perfect justice system was an impossible dream.

References

Ferrari, Giovanni R. F. City and Soul in Plato’s Republic. Chicago: The University of Chicago

Press, 2003. 37. Print.

Lycos, Kimon. Plato on Justice and Power: Reading Book I Of Plato’s Republic. Albany: State.

University of New York Press, 1987. 3. Print

Plato,  and Andrea Tshemplik. The Republic. Student ed. IV. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 148. Print.

Purshouse, Luke. Plato’s Republic: a Reader’s Guide. New York, NY: Continuum Internation

Publishing Group, 2006. 60-61. Print.

Santas, Gerasimos. Understanding Plato’s Republic. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2010. 5.Print.

Ratios

(Figures in 000)

Q1.

Ans1) Total sales have significantly increased in the year of 2008 by 19.3% compared to last year 2007. The major reason for this is that Alphameric  Corporation has strictly tighten its credit policy and have given their customers a credit period (payment period) of 45 days.

Receivable turnover 08 = sales/Avg Rec

= 35915/4422 =8.12

Receivable turnover 07 = 30104/52327

= 0.57

Average Collection period 08 =365/Rec turnover

= 365/8.15 =45days

Average Collection period 07 =365/.52 =634 days

Previously sales were not converting into cash as there were no strict credit policies.

Q2.

Ans2)

Operating Profit 08 = Gross profit – other expenses

=2905-5314-180 = -2589

Operating Profit 07 = (4113) +(427) + (180) = -4720

Q3.

Ans3)

Gross Profit Margin 08 = Gross Profit/Sales

=2905/35915 = 8.08%

Gross Profit Margin 07 = (4113)/30104 = -13.6%

Q4.

Ans4)

Operating Profit Margin 08 = Operating Income/ Sales

= (2589)/35915 = -7.2%

Operating Profit Margin 07 = (4720)/30104 = -15.6%

Q5.

Ans5) Sales have turned into cash in 2008 with help of strict credit policy and reduced the operating loss by 53 % in 2008. If this policy continues Alphameric  Corporation will soon have positive operating profit.

Q6.

Ans6) The business is on the way to improvement, which is quite obvious from the gross profit figures. Gross profit margin is positive 8.08% as compared to negative -15.6%. The business has made a improvement of almost 160% in 2008 which clearly signifies it that the business is going in the right direction.

Other ratios that can be included to monitor the operations are gross profit margin, pretax margin.

Pretax Margin 08 = EBT/Sales

= (2184)/35915 = – 6.08%

Pretax Margin 07 = (5106)/30104 = -16.96 %

Q7.

Ans7) Assets have significant dropped compared to last year. Fixed assets have dropped by 6384000 to             4139000 pounds. Overall in 2008, assets are better utilized and enhancing the performance of the business. Business fixed assets and current assets have decreased but the company’s trade receivable have significantly dropped causing a massive increase in cash in 2008.

Current Ratio 08 = CA/CL

= 33422/(18819) = -1.77

Current Ratio 07 =20702/(18450) = -1.12

Current ratio is still very bad

Quick Ratio 08 = 31382/(18819) = -1.67

Quick Ratio 07 = 16646/(18548) = -0.89

Working Capital 08 = CA – CL =33422 -18818 = -14603

Working Capital 07 = 20702 – 18450 = -2252

WC Margin 08 = WC/Sale=  -14603/35915= -0.406

WC Margin 07=  -2252/30104 = -0.075

Asset have been badly affect in the year 2008 as there  is a significant in increase in the current and long term liabilities over a year. This has also affected the retain earning. Assets have been sold off in 2008 to meet the current liabilities as Alphameric corporation was liquidity crisis which can be seen above. In terms of assets, the overall position is worse off but liquidation of assets were the only option for the Alphameric corporation survival.

Return on Assets 08 = Net income/total assets = (2127)/45664 = -4.65%

ROA 07 = (3909)/63669 = -6.01%

Q8.

Ans8) Alphameric corporation handled the assets inefficiently specially in year 2007, where these assets were inefficiently used to generate sale and then cash. In order to pay off the liabilities and meet the cash shortages liquidation of assets  were the only option.

There has been pertinent decrease in the intangible assets, which suggests that the company has sold off its intangible assets such as patents, copyrights, franchise or even Goodwill.

Fixed asset margin 08 = 12242/35915 = 0.34

Fixed asset margin 07 = 42967/30104 = 1.42

The company is significantly worse off because of the liquidation of assets.

Q9.

Ans9)

Working capital 08 = Inventories + receivables -payables

= 2040 + 12182 – 16265 = -2045

Working capital 07 =4056 + 16646 -  11722 =8980

This ratio suggests that the Alphameric corporation  had no liquidity crisis of cash flow problems in 2007, which has become the major problem  in 2008.

Q10.

Ans10)

Working Capital 08 = CA – CL =33422 -18818 = -14603

Working Capital 07 = 20702 – 18450 = -2252

WC Margin 08 = WC/Sale=  -14603/35915= -0.406

WC Margin 07=  -2252/30104 = -0.075

Working capital was never managed properly, though the situation got worse in 2008 which was the affect of inefficient handling of assets in 2007. This lead to further liquidation of assets.

Q11.

Ans11)

The company had no cash available in 2007 because of poor credit policies but the corporation generated good amount of cash in 2008 of 19202 pounds.

Q12.

Ans12)

Investing cash flow has been mostly affected from the sale /liquidation of fixed assed  which has caused the increase in cash by  19202.

Q13.

Ans13)

Introduction

According to Melissa and Jessica, this is a study carried to provide a picture on gender differences in mate poaching. The study had various questions all aimed at getting the feelings of different people (of different age and liking) on interests that may affect their pursuant to relationships. The study was conducted on participants from Oklahoma State University. In writing the report findings, the researchers review different authors on the subject to ensure that it has the required scientific rigor. Further, adequate literature review enables readers to have confidence in the findings and also it allows others to reference the materials without doubt.

Independent Variable(s) used in the Study

The independent variable is like the explanatory variable(s) in any research study and its outcomes does not depend on any other variable(s). In this research study, the independent variable is gender (Females and Males). In this case, the relationship status will be compared for both women and men. The comparison is done using graphs, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and measures of dispersion (e.g. standard deviation).

Dependent variable(s) used in the study ‘relationship status-single or attached) and qualities of the ideal romantic partner. The relationship status and the qualities of the romantic partner depend depends on the gender of the respondent. This can further be ascertained by the literature review. The dependent variables show the comparisons of men and women. Further, one variable, like relationship status, is controlled for the other variable, qualities of ideal romantic partner, and vice versa. The differences in both men and women are then determined using one explanatory variable holding the other constant.

Sampling used to gather Subject

Sampling is one of the areas the research work has faltered. In this research study, there is no indication of any sampling done prior to the research work. In this case, a sample of 184 participants was used and was made up of 97 women and 87 men. For an ideal research study in which the results are meet the expectations of a research study, the sample needs to be representative of the entire population. A quality scientific research work has no room for biasness. In such a case, the population needs to be stratified (subdivided into non-overlapping subgroups-strata), for example, by departments (or faculties) since the population is not homogenous where a simple random sample will be carried out as is the case. Stratification involves putting together elements with same (almost) traits together and then picking a simple random sample from each stratum.

Further, there is no indication of the total population in Oklahoma State University as this would have guided in the calculation of the sample size using the formula; n = N / (1+N (e2)). Where ‘n’ is the sample size, ‘N’ is the population size and ‘e’ is the expected error (error on the bound of estimation) which in is 5% in most cases. Once the sample size is determined, then a sample for each stratum is calculated using the formula shown; nk = (Nk / N ) * n; where ‘nk’ is the  sample size for stratum ‘K’, ‘Nk’ is the population size for stratum ‘K’, ‘N’ is total population size, and n is total sample size using the first formula. These formulas would have resulted into the sample size which will mostly represent the entire population without bias.

In any research study, there is need to carryout what is called an understanding of the sample size by administering free consent forms to the participants. This ensures that all participants are aware of the benefits involved and also the understanding that participation is by free consent. This is done mainly to ensure that there is no subject loss which is expensive to the researcher in addition to affecting the precision. In this research study, this is not available.

Reliability of Study

There are quite a number of aspects which makes a research study un-reliable and they include. Withholding some results from the research report findings, reporting findings as though they represent the true feelings on the ground, paying participants to receive positive research results and getting funding from an organization to carry out a research on their behalf with some biasness.

Withholding research findings is all about only reporting the positive ones is shelving the negative ones. Further, generalizing research findings as though to represent the entire population using a smaller sample is not ethical as the findings may be far much different if a larger sample is used. In addition, to pay participants to respond in such a way is against research ethics teachings of free consent and protection of vulnerable groups. Further, for any research to have the required reliability, there is need for a deeper understanding of who did it, why it was done and may be who paid for it to be conducted, may be he/she did it for money.

In this case, the research findings may not be reliable since it was conducted without a mention of the total population in the University which would affect the final sample size. A sample size of 184, although large, may not be large if the total population is taken into consideration. All the other aspects have been taken care of.

Validity of Study

For a research work to be valid, the participants need to be selected at random. Randomness reduces incidences of serial correlation which affects precision and the final research results. Further, randomness minimizes biasness which leads to skewed results. In this case, there is no indication of randomness. Further, there is need to understand whether the research work is double blind in that, the researcher and the participants do not understand what is under study. In this research study, it is evident that the researcher is aware of what is required. Again, a research is valid if it compares its findings and literature with other research works in the same field (topic). There also the need to study interaction effect between the explanatory variables and it significance to the overall research findings.

Reference

Melissa, B and Jessica, P (2009). Who’s Chasing Whom? The Impact of Gender and Relationship Status on Mate Poaching. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, No. (45) pp. 1016-1019

Michel Foucault was a French thinker and philosopher, who brought a different meaning to word power. He is well known for his thinking and critical appraisal of social institutions. He has done extensive work in the areas of human science, prison systems, psychiatry, and medicine. He is well known for his work on Power and its relationship between Knowledge and Discourse.

One of the key earlier works to Power is the Archeology of Knowledge. It is in this work that Foucault states that “Statement” is the fundamental unit of speech and it has a special meaning in the archeology. Foucault postulates that a statement denotes utterances and/or speech acts. It is in this work that he puts forth the argument that the meaning of semantic elements is in-determinable prior to articulation of the same.

Foucault clearly postulates that statements are a network of rules that establish what is meaningful. And that these rules are the pre-conditions for the speech acts to have meaning. And that the meaning of a statement is contextual and is reliant to the statements that are there before and after it. Foucault ensures that he identifies structures of meaning and truth in his texts; His analysts – Dreyfus and Rainbow – imply that Foucault in his texts prefers to ferret the truth rather than analyzing and hiding it beneath the text in some transcendental text. Foucault, it is said, analyzes the discursive and practical conditions for the existence of truth and meaning. From the style and approach taken by Foucault in this text it is amply clear that Foucault does not want the reader to seek interpretations of the text.

Foucault is also well known for his work on Power. It is in this work that he has almost changed the very definition and the traditional concept of power. Prior to this revolutionary approach to Power it was commonly perceived that power is something in the hands of an individual or a group of individuals who can influence, coax or cajole others to do their bidding or in extreme situations even oppress or dominate others.

Foucault brought in a totally new thinking, newer dimension and perspective – He described “power as capillary or diffuse, ultimately forming a force field detached from any human agency, yet pervading the daily existence of individuals on all steps of the social ladder and ordering their lives in the minutest detail (or affecting the way they regulate their own behavior in similar detail)”. This implies that power is something that power is something that is endowed with power and logic of its own, pretty much independent of social factors.

This is a very different perspective, possibly viewing Power under the dynamics of change of the 19th and 20th centuries. This is different from the definition of Power as made out by Gellner’s dentistry state – where in the rulers inflicted some damage or overuse of power over peasants to extract something extra from the subjects while using violence to pre-empt or punish challengers. While this damage inflict happened on one side the rulers played no role in the regulation of daily life of these subjects. This form of governance fit the well disciplined, traditional societies where rules were clear and natural. Also the issue of compliance was ensured by close-up monitoring. The challenge was when these societies began to break up – This was the situation when there was a need for a new breed of social power that would channelize the energies and entropies and also harmonize of people by the newly disembodied populace.

This was the “New Power” that Foucault refers to as the disciplinary power. This is the newer form of power wherein an individual is constantly under monitoring to ensure compliance of their behavior to scientifically designed and accepted norms. It is in the 19th and the 20th centuries that the need for this new kind of power was felt and it became imperative for the governments to create methods and systems for such constant monitoring and “micro-regulation.”

The governments struggled to ensure implementation of such micro-regulation to whole population whose behavior can be scientifically documented, measured, planned and impressed upon. It is suit this situation that the Foucault coined – “bio-power.” And the need for rethinking on the concept of power.

Objective

Due to the fashion safety Rule policies, an organization must put into practice the Contingency Planning Practices to guarantee the protection of the fashion products, workers and the invited guests in general.  In order to achieve this undertaking, there are more than a few steps that an organization must complete to discover serious business functions, processes and venues that are involved in the process of the fashion designing and the fashion industry as a whole so as to comprehend the probable impact to the industry if a disruptive episode occurred.  One of the first steps of implementing this particular Contingency Program is to carry out a Risk Assessment.  This questionnaire will help one recognize the existing and risks threats to such an event and execute measures to eradicate or reduce these potential risks.

Risk assessment

Firstly from the information provided we as the group were able to come up with a certain list of various possible risks that can occur within this events period. From this information the most likely risks were arranged in the order of the probability of the risk occurring. Secondly, the probability of these doubts happening and the comparative impact they might have were evaluated. We came up with a certain criteria which are listed below to show the outcome of the probability of the risks happening. Thirdly, the risks we were able to prioritize and made a policy in order to reduce their gravity of the risks in case they happen.

The risk assessment team came up with the following risk as one that is most probable to happen;

Fire risk; as in any event, fire is one of the most common modes of accident. And so as to be clear from fire, we had to include it as one of the risks that can occur. Besides it is important reduce of fire occurring since if it occurs it can affect the whole event and eventually reduce the quality of the designs being released in the winter launch.

Risk Response

For the fire risks; the following response is outlined;

The fire alarms are made highly sensitive and therefore, dry ice and smoke machines and fireworks are not permitted. This reduces chances of event interruption.

All entrances, exits and gangways in all areas must be kept unobstructed at all times. The main corridor is the main fire escape route and must be kept clear at all times.

Every studio holds a fire extinguisher. Fire fighting apparatus should be kept clear and be readily accessible. Neither they, nor signs indicating their positions, can be removed or obscured.

The venue holds an additional small supply of hand held fire extinguishers and fire blankets that we have required.

Contingency Plans

The contingency plan is pretty simple in this case. In case of any risk, e.g. fire, or any other accident, the primary responder is to inform the Contingency Planning Coordinator who in this case is one appointed to do so. All identified. Information must be communicated to the Contingency Planning Coordinator who in turn he informs the systems supervisor who is to get in touch with the Damage Assessment Team Leader and notify them of the fire event.  The Damage Assessment Team Leader is to alert team members and direct them to comprehensive complete the evaluation procedures outlined to establish the degree of damage and predictable recovery time.

There is also the Fire evacuation procedure in which the Contingency Planning Coordinator will brief everyone fully on the fire procedures prior to the event. On hearing the fire alarm, one should evacuate via the nearest fire exit to the Fire Assembly Muster Point, which is located on the triangular patch of grass facing the venue, across the slip road The staff on duty and security staff will also direct you out of the building through the nearest unaffected fire exit. The main exit routes from the venue can be found on the attached venue floor plan provided. Disabled guests will be assisted to evacuate by the appointed person who shall be identified by the Venue / Event Manager prior to the event commencing. The 2 large fire doors halfway down the main corridor and the fire blinds separating the reception and bar area will all close automatically when the fire alarm sounds. Please do not return to the building until you have been given the all clear by your Contingency Planning Coordinator, who will have consulted with the London Fire Service.

Also In case any fatalities, A First Aid Box will be made available and a first aid trained representative will be on site, identifiable within the staff. Additional, First Aid boxes will be located in the reception area. if the fatality is very serious then The nearest accident and emergency unit to Jasmine Studios is: Charring Cross Hospital ,Fulham Palace Road London W6 8RF.