3Evaluating the Hazards

DOI: 10.1201/9781003405641-5

3.1 Evaluating the Hazards Identified

Clearly, the previous section is an extremely comprehensive list of the potential hazards or risk factors that any type or size of firm could find. While there are likely to be elements of each individual item that applies to any organization, the assumption is that at a business unit level, the scope of factors will be much smaller and therefore more manageable.

As we said earlier, external factors could have a higher or lower impact on the risks you face and so may need greater attention than mentioned here.

However, it must also be noted that this is only the starting point for evaluating the risks to the organization, and that it is important to ...

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