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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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