risk assessment
risk assessment noun: the overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.
Noun
risk assessment (countable and uncountable, plural risk assessments)
- The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.
- BBC News website, Radioactive warning on Fife beach read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/4974692.stm on 14 May 2006 - Sepa has been carrying out a risk assessment at the bay and now wants a detailed investigation to be carried out.
- NR had carried out risk assessments in 2002, identifying potential dangers with the crossing and recommending the installation of automatic locking gates. But this was not acted upon. In 2007, following the tragic deaths of Charlotte and Olivia, NR erected a footbridge and installed locking gates...2023 November 1, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “Safety Mission: Possible”, in RAIL, number 995, page 36
- The determination of the potential impact of an individual risk by measuring or otherwise assessing both the likelihood that it will occur and the impact if it should occur, and then combining the result according to an agreed rule to give a single measure of potential impact.
risk assessment meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malay and Indonesian
risk assessment in Tamil
- மறையிடர் மதிப்பீடு
risk assessment in Marathi
- overall process of identifying risks
- जोखीम विश्लेषण jokhīm viśleṣaṇ
- determination of the potential impact of an individual risk
- जोखीम विश्लेषण jokhīm viśleṣaṇ
risk assessment in Malay
- overall process of identifying risks
- penaksiran risiko, penilaian risiko, taksiran risiko, penjangkaan risiko
risk assessment in Indonesian
- overall process of identifying risks
- asesmen risiko, penaksiran risiko, penilaian risiko, penentuan risiko, taksiran resiko, prakiraan resiko
Forms of risk assessment
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Questions about risk assessment
- What does risk assessment mean?
- Risk assessment means the overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.
- What is risk assessment in Tamil?
- Risk assessment in Tamil is மறையிடர் மதிப்பீடு. See Risk assessment meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is risk assessment?
- Risk assessment is a noun.
- What is the plural of risk assessment?
- The plural of risk assessment is risk assessments.
Words near risk assessment in the dictionary
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