Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

risk assessment

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: risk assess-ment
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"BBC News website, Radioactive warning on Fife beach read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/4974692.stm on 14 May 2006 - Sepa has been carrying out a risk assessment at the bay and now wants a detailed investigation to be carried out."
"NR had carried out risk assessments in 2002, identifying potential dangers with the crossing and recommending the installation of automatic locking gates. But this was not acted upon. In 2007, following the tragic deaths of Charlotte and Olivia, NR erected a footbridge and installed locking gates at the foot crossing."

Usage

Inflected Forms

risk assessments (plural)

Phrases

risk-assess risk-assessed risk management

Frequently Paired Words

risk-assess risk-assessed risk management

Questions

What does risk assessment mean?: The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.

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