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Risk assessment is a vital tool in balancing your profits and losses. It helps you understand what part of the business or organization is prone to failure. There are numerous benefits for estimating contingency which include the upheaval of strategic planning in business. It also ensures the full use of available resources along with frequent improvements in the manufacturing process.

Calculating risks basically involves the application of a straight forward method. This method starts with the establishment of factors related to exposedness. Once the danger is known to the assessors or policy makers, actions are planned to counter these threats. Counter measures also depend on the size of the threat and the rate of threat occurrence.

After planning solutions for possible risks, their effectiveness is observed. If a solutions fits on particular threat then it’s regarded as a standard application and if not, changes are made. Of course changes are also subject to the ever updating laws and guidelines set forward by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

Risk assessment leads to the formation of better business with increased chances of profits and decreased chances of losses. Determining what part of a company or organization needs to be altered in order to avoid maximum casualties not only saves time but a good sum of expenses too.

Hospital bills and prolonged treatments can be avoided if an accident prone machine or equipment is kept away from workers. Buying new equipment costs much less than paying lifelong medical bills and lasting insurance payments.

The knowledge of impending losses and damages to the physical assets of a company or organization help the owners realize how much of their capital is actually invested or wasted. This helps in making swift monetary decisions in the future.

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