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Risk analysis
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Risk analysis can be defined in many different ways, and
much of the definition depends on how risk analysis relates to
other concepts. Risk analysis can be "broadly defined to
include risk assessment, risk characterization, risk
communication, risk management, and policy relating to risk,
in the contoxt of risks of concem to individuals, to public- and
private-sector organizations, and to society at a local, regional,
national, or global level.”!"! A useful construct is to divide risk
analysis into two components: (1) risk assessment (identifying,
evaluating, and measuring the probability and severity of risk
and (2) risk management (deciding what to do about risks).7]
Some books'! take a slightly different approach and define Lon
risk management as the overarching concept, where risk
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NASA's illustration showing high impact risk areas
analysis is the component that seeks to identify and measure
the risks and risk mitigation is determining what to do about for the International Space Station
the risks.
Risk analy n be qualitative or quantitative“) Qualitative risk analysis uses words or colors to identify and
evaluate risks or presents a written description of the risk, and quantitative risk analysis (QRA) calculates
numerical probabilities over the possible consequences.
Quantitative risk analysis
QRA secks to numerically assess probabilities for the potential consequences of risk, and is often called
probabilistic risk analysis or probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). The analysis often seeks to deseribe the
consequences in numerical units such as dollars, time, or lives lost. PRA often seeks to answer three questions:(*)
1, What can happen? (i.c., what can go wrong?)
2, How likely is it that it will happen?
3. Lfit does happen, what are the consequenc
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