Behavioural

Threats (or hazards) that affect safety exist in some sense, at some level, in many facets of everyday life. And they are accepted, or controlled, or feared.  Achieving a sense of ‘risk management’ is not absolute: it depends on the appetite of those involved, and therefore, it is more behavioural than scientific.  Applying frequencies and statistics and predictions and layers of protection are all good methodologies, but these apply within the context of the people involved, and their perceptions and behaviour at the time of the assessment.

Risk management is less scientific and more behavioural than it sometimes might seem.