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About Risk
 
Risk is the possibility of experiencing harm or loss.
 
Risks have to do with exposure to uncertain changes. A change is always a risk. This is the reason in compliance we always authorize, test and document changes.
 
People take risks for a good reason: To profit, to change their life, to try another approach that is more promising. They take risks in the hope of a favorable outcome.
 
The four stages of the Risk Process
 
1. Risk Identification
 
2. Risk Analysis
 
3. Risk Planning (selection and implementation of countermeasures, when the risks are above our risk appetite)
 
4. Implementation of countermeasures, monitoring, reporting and reviewing Risk Management actions against objectives
 
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in non-technical contexts, the word risk refers, often rather vaguely, to situations in which it is possible but not certain that some undesirable event will occur.
 
In technical contexts, the word has several more specialized uses and meanings.
 
Five of these are particularly important since they are widely used across disciplines:

1. risk = an unwanted event which may or may not occur.

An example of this usage is: “Lung cancer is one of the major risks that affect smokers.”

2. risk = the cause of an unwanted event which may or may not occur.

An example of this usage is: “Smoking is by far the most important health risk in industrialized countries.” (The unwanted event implicitly referred to here is a disease caused by smoking.) Both (1) and (2) are
qualitative senses of risk. The word also has quantitative senses, of which the following is the oldest one:

3. risk = the probability of an unwanted event which may or may not occur.

This usage is exemplified by the following statement: “The risk that a smoker's life is shortened by a smoking-related disease is about 50%.”

4. risk = the statistical expectation value of an unwanted event which may or may not occur.

The expectation value of a possible negative event is the product of its probability and some measure of its severity. It is common to use the number of killed persons as a measure of the severity of an accident. With this measure of severity, the “risk” (in sense 4) associated with a potential accident is equal to the statistically expected number of deaths. Other measures of severity give rise to other measures of risk.

Although expectation values have been calculated since the 17th century, the use of the term “risk” in this sense is relatively new. Today it is the standard technical meaning of the term “risk” in many disciplines. It is regarded by some risk analysts as the only correct usage of the term.

5. risk = the fact that a decision is made under conditions of known probabilities (“decision under risk” as opposed to “decision under uncertainty”).
 

How to assess the risks in your workplace
from the Health and Safety Executive - HSE (UK)
Follow the five steps

1.Identify the hazards

2.Decide who might be harmed and how

3.Evaluate the risks and decide on precaution

4.Record your findings and implement them

5.Review your assessment and update if necessary

Don’t overcomplicate the process. In many organisations, the risks are well known and the necessary control measures are easy to apply. You probably already know whether, for example, you have employees who move heavy loads and so could harm their backs, or where people are most likely to slip or trip. If so, check that you have taken reasonable precautions to avoid injury.

When thinking about your risk assessment, remember:

A hazard is anything that may cause harm, such as chemicals, electricity, working from ladders, an open drawer, etc; and the risk is the chance, high or low, that somebody could be harmed by these and other hazards, together with an indication of how serious the harm could be.
 
What is a hazard?
A hazard is anything with the potential to cause harm e.g. working at height on scaffolding.

What is risk?
A risk is the likelihood that a hazard will cause a specified harm to someone or something, eg if there are no guard rails on the scaffolding it is likely that a construction worker will fall and break a bone.

What is risk management?
Risk management is a process that involves assessing the risks that arise in your workplace, putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them and then making sure they work in practice.

W
hat is risk assessment?
A risk assessment is nothing more than a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm.


Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson 
 

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