SPS Online.
Risk Analysis Overview
Overview.
risk Assessment.
Risk Management.
Risk Communication.
Review.
In-Depth Interpretation of Risk Assessment.
What is Risk Assessment.
What Risk Assessment Do & What They Not Do.
Conducting a Good Risk Assessmnet.
Overview.
Precise Statement.
Imprecise Statement.
Imprecise Statement.
Review.
International Guidelines for Risk Analysis.
Guidelines Relative to Plant Protection & Quarantine.
Guidelines Relative to Veterinary Services.
Overview.
Definition of a Region.
Benchmark Risk Levels.
Compliance with WTO Requirments.
Example - Background of South Africa.
Glossary.

What is Needed to Conduct a Good Risk Assessment

Imprecise Statement

An imprecise statement describes a risk that contains a large number of potential variables. The result is that there is such a high degree of uncertainty that it is nearly impossible to analyze the risk and determine the likelihood and magnitude of adverse effects.

Example of imprecise statements:

  • What is risk of riding in a car?
  • What is risk of importing breeder pigs?
  • What is risk of importing shrimp?

Essentially, the types of questions that risk assessors ask could be boiled down to the following:

  • What can go wrong (if I do nothing)?
  • What is the likelihood (or probability) of that happening?
  • What is the magnitude of the outcome?
  • How certain am I?