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Risk tolerance

Where should your risk threshold sit?

Every scored risk assessment has a point where an acceptable score becomes an unacceptable one. We built a 12 question quiz to help you work out where that point belongs for your operation, and it ends with two numbers you can set on your own forms. One is the score where a result starts needing a second look. The other is where the work waits until something has been done about it.

Your threshold is a choice, not an industry number

Set it too low and everything trips the wire, so the reviews become a formality. Set it too high and real risk passes through labeled acceptable. Two things in RISE carry these colors, both of them yours to set, and they work at different reaches.

Set onceHazard reportsSeverity by probability, 1 to 25. Where low becomes medium, and medium becomes high, is yours. Set it once and every evaluation in the account is read against it.

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Set per formRisk assessmentsTwo markers you choose on the form’s Scoring screen. They start at 15 and 30, and that is a default like any other.

A tighter line, 10 and 22

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The default, 15 and 30

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A wider line, 20 and 38

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A charter operator flying into demanding terrain and a flight school in controlled airspace have good reason to draw that second line in different places, even working from the same template.

What you finish with

Two numbers, and where to enter them

Every question asks the same thing a different way: how much risk your operation can reasonably let through before somebody should stop and look at it. Answers pointing toward more room score higher, answers pointing toward less score lower, and 24 is the most you can score. There is no good result here. A tight line and a wide one are each right for the operation that needs them, and your total puts you in one of these three places.

0 to 8 pointsA tighter lineYour answers point to a line below the common default

Markers at 10 and 22

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9 to 16 pointsNear the defaultYour answers sit close to where a scored form already draws it

Markers at 15 and 30

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17 to 24 pointsA wider lineYour answers point to more room than the default allows

Markers at 20 and 38

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Whichever it lands on, the result ends with where the numbers go: which screen, which square to click, and what the three ranges should read back once you have.

Your turn

Let’s get started

Answer for the operation you actually run rather than the one on the org chart. It takes about eight minutes, and you will finish with two numbers to set on your own risk assessment forms.

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Section 1 of 4

What is at stake

If a routine job in your operation goes wrong, what is the worst outcome that is genuinely credible?

If somebody makes a bad call, how easily can it be caught and fixed before it does any harm?

Who is exposed when something goes wrong?

Section 2 of 4

How often you meet it

How often does the work put people near its main hazards?

How much do conditions vary between one job and the next?

How much do the people doing the work vary?

Section 3 of 4

What stands between

How consistently are your controls actually applied?

Do you know your controls work, or do you assume they do?

What happens when somebody wants to stop the job?

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What you know

What are the scores on your risk assessments actually based on?

Can you see whether a given hazard is getting better or worse?

When somebody rates how probable something is, how much is that rating worth?

12 questions still to answer.

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