Risk Management

Identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks, followed by coordinated application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of adverse events. Encompasses safety engineering, financial risk, operational risk, and existential risk.

Entries (23)

• Base Actions on Current and Expected Fire Behavior mental-model
• Calculated Risk metaphor
• Canary in a Coal Mine metaphor
• Collect Your Whole Force mental-model
• Eighteen Watch-Out Situations mental-model
• Escape Route metaphor
• Everyone Goes Home mental-model
• Fog of War metaphor
• Freelancing mental-model
• LCES mental-model
• Mayday mental-model
• Measure Twice, Cut Once mental-model
• Monoculture Risk mental-model
• Murphy's Law mental-model
• NIOSH 5 mental-model
• Pandora's Box metaphor
• Risk a Lot to Save a Lot mental-model
• Safety Zone mental-model
• Single Point of Failure mental-model
• Size-Up mental-model
• Ten Standard Fire Orders mental-model
• The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease metaphor
• You Can Always Take More Off, But You Can't Put It Back On mental-model