1. Basic risk management steps

An operational safety (OS) approach must be integrated into the activities to which it contributes, and can therefore take a wide variety of forms (see article General approach to risk control in the process industries ). Risk management is always based on the same four components, which may take on very different importance and importance from one approach to another. These four components are the four usual steps in a classic design approach: identification, assessment, reduction or acceptance and control of risks.

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