Risk Management

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1. All soldiers and leaders are responsible for safe training. What must they do to ensure training is safe?

-Identify risks using METT-T factors

-Assess possible loss, cost, and probability

-Make decisions and develop controls to reduce risks

-Implement controls by integrating them into plans, orders, SOPs, training performance standards, and rehearsals

-Supervise and enforce at all times safety controls and standards

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2. What is a Hazard?

A hazard is a condition with potential to causing injury to personnel, damage to equipment or structures, loss of material, or reduction of ability to perform a prescribed function.

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3. What is Risk?

Risk is an expression of possible loss over a specified period of time or a number of operational cycles.

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4. What is Risk Assessment?

Risk Assessment is the process of detecting hazards and systematically assessing their overall risk. It is part of the Risk Management Process.

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5. What is Gambling in reference to Risk Management?

Gambling is making nonsystematic risk decisions.

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6. What are the four rules of risk management?

-Integrate into planning

-Accept no unnecessary risks

-Make risk decisions at the appropriate level

-Accept risk if benefits outweigh the costs

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7. What are the five steps in deliberate Risk Management?

-Hazard identification

-Hazard assessment

-Risk control options and decision making

-implement controls

-supervise

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8. What are some ways that Risk Management improves training?

-Detects hazards

-Covers all aspects of operations

-Finds more unusual hazards

-Detects failure modes

-Makes use of the life cycle

-Identifies more control options

-Integrates risk controls

-Prioritizes risk control

-Provides better risk decisions

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9. You are conducting a convoy at night, transporting ammunition. While conducting a Risk Assessment, what are some hazards that you may find?

Possible answers: traffic accident

possibility of fire

personnel injuries

vehicle breakdown

improper loading

ammunition explosion

fuel spill

arrival at the wrong site

delays

insufficient rest for drivers

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10. You are conducting a river crossing with your section/squad. As you conduct a risk assessment, you analyze possible hazards. Name a control that you, as a leader, could apply to reduce the following risks:

Hazard: you have some weak swimmers in your section

Possible answers: eliminate those soldiers from the crossing exercise

conduct additional swim training prior to the exercise

use buddy system with strong swimmers

Hazard: weapons security may be lost while crossing

Possible answers: use a "dummy cord" on each weapon

pass weapons across

conduct sensitive items checks before and after the crossing

Hazard: there is a strong current in the stream

Possible answers: use a secured rope for the crossing

recon for a bridge or lower point for crossing

use buddy system while crossing

NOTE: Questions 9 and 10 may be asked with a variety of scenerios

       

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