{"id":21057,"date":"2016-09-26T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/?p=21057"},"modified":"2024-05-18T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:04:47","slug":"risk-management-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/risk-management-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Management 101: 5 Step Risk Elimination Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Risk management<\/strong> is the toilet plunger you have in your bathroom. While things usually go down the plumbing in a swift, smooth movement, sometimes things don’t go as planned. Knowing this, you keep the plunger in the bathroom just in case, so that you may correct things quickly, easily, and with minimal damage. Sorry for the bathroom talk, but for some reason a toilet plunger was the first metaphor I could think up for risk management. When it comes to risk management in business, you want to have a plunger for just about everything that could possibly go wrong to avoid not only crippling costs, but severe liability.<\/p>\n Risk management involves forecasting and evaluating the potential risks associated with your day-to-day operations, while actively identifying ways to reduce them or minimize their impact on your business. Anyone can be involved in risk management, so long as they are well-rehearsed in identifying the potential risks associated with the business.<\/p>\n Photo Credit: Risk Management\/Pinterest<\/p><\/div>\n Most risk management techniques follow the same basic 5-step model:<\/p>\n Photo Credit: Jakub Jirsak\/123RF<\/p><\/div>\n Now that you know what risk management entails, you can encourage employees, other managers, etc. to participate in risk management by vocalizing when they see a potential risk. Get started today, and avoid risky business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Risk management is the toilet plunger you have in your bathroom. While things usually go down the plumbing in a swift, smooth movement, sometimes things don’t go as planned. Knowing this, you keep the plunger in the bathroom just in case, so that you may correct things quickly, easily, and with minimal damage. Sorry for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-training"],"yoast_head":"\n\n