Select an activity with which you are closely associated or very familiar (eg., it may have something to do with your work or at leisure).
Your task is to prepare a document that will:
a) Describe the project or activity you have selected;
b) Conduct a preliminary risk assessment and highlight what particular risk issues are associated with this project or activity;
c) Develop a risk management strategy; and
d) Conduct another risk assessment factoring in your risk management strategy. Describe the outcome and what steps you would undertake (if any), now.
Your report should demonstrate a clear understanding of the processes involved and should be approximately 1,500 words in length (excluding references, tables and figures).
Question: Select a discipline that you are interested in from one of; occupational hygiene, environment or engineering.
Discuss the role of risk assessment in achieving better outcomes for a project related to your discipline (eg., workers at a factory and use of cleaning chemicals, management of a particular species or ecosystem, or community members concerned about pollution from a factory).
What processes or tools would need to be incorporated into the risk assessment to ensure that risk assessment results in better decision making - for all stakeholders?
Who are the stakeholders at risk or who may have an interest - in summary, who are they and what is their interest. Discuss how you would raise identified issues with the stakeholders to ascertain whether the risks were acceptable.
Detail a risk communication strategy to the identified stakeholders. Wherever possible, use actual "issues" to illustrate your answers. These may be related to international events, but would need to be used in a local context.