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These steps, and the links to other management systems processes, are shown in the following diagram extracted from AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 "Risk Management - Principles and Guidelines".
An effective means of assessing the risk level for hazards is to use a risk matrix. The advantage of using a risk matrix as the risk assessment tool is that it enables hazards to be quickly assessed to provide a comparison of risk levels between hazards. This enables hazards that are not significant to be screened out and focuses further risk management activities towards the hazards that have significance. This can be rapidly achieved, because the consequence and likelihood categories are typically quite broad, and utilise qualitative descriptions to assist the workshop team members to understand the scale. It is then relatively easy for the workshop group to determine which is the correct category that each hazard should be assigned to. This limits the potential for the workshop group to get bogged down and waste time debating specific values. R4Risks experience is that for a workshop to be effective, lengthy debates over particular likelihood or consequence values must be avoided. The coarse nature of the risk matrix process, and generally taking a conservative approach to any assumptions made, enables these debates
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to be avoided. An important stage in the process is the identification of the applicable risk management controls for each hazard. R4Risks facilitators have extensive experience in assessing what makes a sound risk management control. They will interrogate the workshop group to ensure that risk management controls nominated by the team are truly effective, and that as a group, the controls will be adequate to manage the hazard. This is one of the key skills that the facilitator brings to the risk workshop process. Once the risk level from each hazard has been assessed, these risk levels can be compared to the organisations risk acceptance criteria. Should the estimated risk levels exceed the organisations risk acceptance criteria, then additional risk treatment measures should be considered by the workshop team to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. If a risk matrix is used as the risk assessment tool, the risk acceptance criteria is usually overlaid on the matrix to provide a simple comparison of the risk against the acceptance criteria. An example of a very simple risk matrix showing risk criteria is shown below.
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