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Lesson 5: Wrap-Up

To sum up what you've learned:

Planning comes first! Discuss the complex considerations involved in risk management in order to establish the goals of the risk assessment.

Planning is a dialogue. It's the time to involve all the key participants and make sure you're aware of everyone's concerns.

Define clear management goals and options. The main purpose of planning is to establish what information you are trying to evaluate.

Define the scope and complexity of the risk assessment. You can't move forward with a scientific evaluation without defining the constraints of the investigation.

Consider a tiered approach. You may be able to plan an efficient series of steps designed to answer certain questions. This would let you stop the assessment process as soon as you have the specific information you need.

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You are now ready to move on to Problem Formulation.

~ End of Module 1 ~


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