risk assessment
The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing…The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.
(countable, uncountable)The determination of the potential impact of an individual risk by measuring or otherwise assessing both the likelihood that it will occur and the impact if it should occur, and then combining the result according to an agreed rule to give a single measure of potential impact.
Examples
1 sentencesThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun a major new risk assessment of 20 flame-retardant chemicals.
Translations
3 languagesForms
plural: risk assessments| Singular | risk assessment |
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Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.