Activity
2.3
Risk
is a difficult concept. It varies from person to person. This
activity encourages you to think about what you consider is
a risk. It aims to give you the confidence to make risk judgments.
Everybody will carry a bias when making a risk judgment. There
is nothing wrong with that. You just need to recognise what
that bias may be. |
Task: You will assess six possible
events to find out which you consider the worst risk - to
yourself. They are not separate risks, e.g. global warming
may be increasing the amount of flooding. But which do you
consider is the most risk? When you do this assessment you
will see that you take into account the likely harm and the
possibility of the event occurring. This is the basis of all
risk assessment.
You will use this method to identify further risk situations
and explain why you consider them risky. You are as capable
as anybody else in judging risk. Everybody tends to ignore
the risks that occur somewhere else.
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