Risk management
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Risk management
Risk Management
Risk management.
Risk management is a set of strategies for analyzing potential risks and instituting policies and procedures to deal with them. The work of assessing the possibilities, setting priorities, and finding cost-effective solutions is also described as business continuity planning.
In a business environment, some risks, such as economic pressures or technology meltdowns, are universal while others are unique to a particular venture or physical location.
Large companies may use a combination of strategies to manage risk, including buying insurance, creating redundant systems, diversifying physical locations or core businesses, and establishing other hedges.
For an individual investor, risk can be managed in several ways: insuring at least a portion of your portfolio, allocating your assets across classes, diversifying your holdings, and hedging with derivative products.
risk management
A systematic approach to identifying insurable and noninsurable risks, evaluating the risk of loss versus the cost of insurance, and minimizing the possibility of loss through well-planned and regularly followed systems and procedures. Especially in construction, which typically has the very highest premiums for workers' compensation insurance, well-planned and well-executed risk management programs can result in significant savings on premiums.