Risk Management Flashcards
What reg covers Risk management?
ATP 5-19 - risk management
What reg covers The army safety program?
AR 385-10 - the army safety program
What are the 5 steps of the risk management process?
- ID hazards
- Assess hazards
- Develop controls and make decisions
- Implement controls
- Supervise and evaluate
What are the application levels of RM?
Deliberate
Real time
What is deliberate RM?
Deliberate: ample time is available to apply the 5 step process as part of detailed planning for an operation
Examples of deliberate RM?
- Mission, tasks, events
- Recreational activities
- emergency response plans
What is real time RM?
Immediate management of hazards as they occur, usually during execution of an operation or performance of a task.
Examples of real time RM?
- unexpected enemy actions
- emergency situations
- accidents
How does risk management work in with TLP?
Step 1: ID hazard
TLP: steps 1-6
Step 2: Assess the hazards
TLP: steps 1-6
Step 3: Develop controls and make risk decisions
TLP: steps 2-7
Step 4: implement controls
TLP: steps 4-8
Step 5: supervise and evaluate
TLP: steps 7-8
How does the Army define a hazard
?
Actual or potential condition, situation, or event that can result in:
- injury, illness, or death of personnel
- damage, loss, or destruction of equipment and property
- degradation of capabilities or mission failure
With risk management every soldier is a _____
Sensor
How are hazards ID’d?
- experience
- historical data
- SOP’s
- intuitive analysis
- logic diagrams
- training assessment
- AAR’s
How does RM fit into METT-TC?
M-Mission: what hazards associate w mission?
E-Enemy: what can enemy do to defeat/degrade mission
T-Terrain/weather: environmental hazards?
T-Troops and equipment: hazards w level of training, staffing, equipment maintenance/condition
T-Time: time to prepare 2/3 rule?
C-Civil considerations: will ops threaten civilians
What are the components of step 2, assess hazards?
Probability
Severity
Risk level
What are the 5 levels of probability?
- frequent
- likely
- occasional
- seldom
- unlikely
4 levels of severity?
- catastrophic
- critical
- moderate
- negligible
Specific risk levels?
- extremely high: mission failure likely
- high: mission degraded; partially complete; below standard
- medium: mission complete, but below standards
- Low: little or no negative impact on mission
Definition of “controls”
Controls reduce or eliminate hazards, which may result in reduced risk level
In developing controls, consider the reason for the hazard (cause vs symptom)
What are effective controls?
Effective controls must be suitable, feasible, and acceptable; they’re no good if they cant be implemented
Effective controls specify who, what, where, when, and how
What are the sources of controls?
Sources that can provide or ID possible control measures
- Lessons-learned
- RMIS
- AAR’s
- personal experience
How to perform step 4 reassess hazards?
After controls are applied you reassess hazards
- determine residual risk for each hazard
- never higher than initial risk
How to determine overall mission risk?
- the highest risk hazard
or - the number and types of hazards may make overall risk higher than any single hazard
How are controls implemented?
- integrate into SOP, TTP, Orders, briefings
- convert into clear and simple execution orders
- communicate among all concerned
Methods of explaining risk controls?
- graphics
- drills/rehearsals
- training
- communications (voice/digits)
When do you perform step 5: supervise and evaluate?
Supervise and evaluation occurs through all phases
When evaluating you should?
- ID new hazards
- Assess controls
- Assess accuracy of residual risk (did it really lower)
- ensure compliance w guiding principles of RM
What are the guiding principles of RM?
- did we fully integrate RM
- were risk decisions made at the right level
- were unnecessary risks accepted
- did we apply RM cyclically and continuously
What is the individual responsibility during RM?
- situational awareness (ID and report risks)
- follow command guidance
- self discipline on/off duty
- know and use RM tools (ATP 5-19 and USACRC website)
