Risk Management Report

Assignment: Find a scholarly article (See attached) that discusses how the design of a product or system incorporated (or was modified or enhanced to include) features or subsystems that mitigate the risks associated with manufacturing, operating, maintaining, or disposing of that product or system.

The article must be in English and have appeared in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal since 2009. FYI, an Example Risk Management Report.pdfPreview the document is available (see attached); this report is based on an article reviewed by a student in 2017: Thieme Utne RESS 2017.pdfPreview the document No student may use this paper this semester.

Every student must discuss a different paper; claim your paper on the Risk Management Paper Signup (a discussion).

A. Complete the potential problem analysis process (cf. Section 9.2 in the textbook attached) using the information in this article.

B. Write a short, professional report that cites your article and describes your application of the potential problem analysis process. The report should have (1) a brief description of the system or setting and (2) a separate section for each of the following questions:

1. What were the potential problems? What are their possible impacts? (List as many as possible.)

2. Which potential problems were the highest priority? Which factors (probability, seriousness, and invisibility) made these the highest priority?

3. What were the possible causes of the high-priority potential problems? Which causes were most likely?

4. For each high-priority potential problem, what preventive actions were taken (if any)?

5. For each high-priority potential problem, what contingency actions were planned (if any)?

6. What triggers and monitoring systems were implemented?