What is the correct sequence of the five steps in the Risk Management Process?

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What is the correct sequence of the five steps in the Risk Management Process?

Explanation:
Think through the flow of reducing risk in an operation: you first as you must know what could cause harm. That means identifying hazards. Once you’ve identified them, you evaluate how serious they are and how likely they are to occur, which is assessing hazards. With that understanding, you then decide what controls are needed and make risk decisions about which ones to apply. That’s developing controls. Only after you’ve decided on the controls do you put them into action, so you implement the controls. Finally, you watch how the controls perform in practice and check whether the risk is actually reduced, which leads to supervision and evaluation. This sequence—identify hazards, assess hazards, develop controls (and make risk decisions), implement controls, supervise and evaluate—captures the correct order. The risk decisions are included with developing controls, and implementing comes after that decision point, followed by ongoing evaluation. Other options misplace a step or omit the explicit decision-making tied to developing controls, which would break the proper flow.

Think through the flow of reducing risk in an operation: you first as you must know what could cause harm. That means identifying hazards. Once you’ve identified them, you evaluate how serious they are and how likely they are to occur, which is assessing hazards. With that understanding, you then decide what controls are needed and make risk decisions about which ones to apply. That’s developing controls. Only after you’ve decided on the controls do you put them into action, so you implement the controls. Finally, you watch how the controls perform in practice and check whether the risk is actually reduced, which leads to supervision and evaluation.

This sequence—identify hazards, assess hazards, develop controls (and make risk decisions), implement controls, supervise and evaluate—captures the correct order. The risk decisions are included with developing controls, and implementing comes after that decision point, followed by ongoing evaluation. Other options misplace a step or omit the explicit decision-making tied to developing controls, which would break the proper flow.

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