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 (31)

• Antifragility mental-model
• Base Actions on Current and Expected Fire Behavior mental-model
• Calculated Risk metaphor
• Canary Deployment metaphor
• Canary in a Coal Mine metaphor
• Canary in the Coal Mine metaphor
• Collect Your Whole Force mental-model
• Eighteen Watch-Out Situations mental-model
• Escape Route metaphor
• Everyone Goes Home mental-model
• Fight Fire Aggressively, Having Provided for Safety First mental-model
• Fog of War metaphor
• Freelancing mental-model
• Genie Out of the Bottle metaphor
• Know What Your Fire Is Doing 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
• Smoke Detector metaphor
• Ten Standard Fire Orders mental-model
• The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease metaphor
• Tripwire metaphor
• You Can Always Take More Off, But You Can't Put It Back On mental-model