Risk Categories for Duty of Care Incidents

Sometimes when you look at the world of duty-of-care risk management, you can feel overwhelmed when trying to consider every permutation, similarities and volatility of incidents. As a high-level guide, you might want to start considering the following categories and build your knowledge and response from there:

• Subjective risk ... related incidents that typically impact one or a small group of people

• Localized risk ... events in the vicinity impacting people, facilities and infrastructure

• Holistic risk ... 3rd party intelligence alerts providing wider impact and geographical events