risk assessment

risk assessment

English

Noun

risk assessment (countable and uncountable, plural risk assessments)

1. 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 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.
2. 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.

Related terms

• risk-assess, risk-assessed

Translations

overall process of identifying risks

Chinese: Mandarin: 風險評估／风险评估 (fēngxiǎn pínggū) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: riskienarviointi French: évaluation des risques f, évaluation du risque f Irish: measúnú riosca m Polish: ocena ryzyka f Portuguese: avaliação de risco f Russian: please add this translation if you can

determination of the potential impact of an individual risk

Chinese: Mandarin: 風險評估／风险评估 (fēngxiǎn pínggū) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: riskinarviointi, riskinmääritys Polish: ocena ryzyka f Portuguese: avaliação de risco f Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• risk management