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Six levels of risk management

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

In spite of all efforts to design safer systems, we still witness severe, large-scale accidents. A basic question is: Do we actually have adequate models of accident causation in the present dynamic society? That was the question asked by Jens Rasmussen in 1997 when he wrote Risk management in a dynamic society: a modelling problem. Here he argues that risk management includes several levels ranging from legislators, over managers and work planners, to system operators. Should supply chain risk management follow suit?

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A new and better way of classifying and managing risks?

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Revised on: 2015-11-12

Risk. The probability of an event occurring and the consequences of the event occurring. That is how most of us would classify and compare risks in a scientific manner. Does it have to be like that or is there a different, or perhaps even a better way? Maybe there is. Ten years ago, Andreas Klinke and Ortwin Renn set out to do just that, in Precautionary principle and discursive strategies: classifying and managing risks. Here they developed an integral risk concept based on eight criteria for classifying and managing risk. A novel approach, but what happened to it?

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The world we live in: Risk Society

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Revised on: 2015-09-11

We live in a world that is full of risk, risks that we to a large degree have created ourselves, and where naturally occuring risk hardly exists anymore. That is a risk society. With that at the back of his mind, Jan Hovden of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, developed a framework that incorporates risk and vulnerability, that includes safety hazards and security threats and that adds both a micro and a macro perspective. It is a framework that fully accounts for most if not all of the risks that we have to face to a larger or lesser extent. Why is this framework not used more often?

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