Risk assessment is a process for identifying

* hazards, potential (future) events which may negatively impact (harm) an individual(s), asset(s), and/or the environment
* likelihood (probability) of those hazards occurring
* consequences of those hazards
* actions (risk reduction methods) which can mitigate these hazardous effects.

As the first stage of a risk assessment process, hazard analysis identifies the situations and events

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