| Xavier University Army ROTC
Study Guide
Risk Management
1. All soldiers and leaders are responsible
for safe training. What must they do to ensure training is
safe?
- Identify risks using METT-T factors
- Assess possible loss, cost, and probability
- Make decisions and develop controls to reduce
risks
- Implement controls by integrating them into
plans, orders, SOPs, training performance standards, and
rehearsals
- Supervise and enforce at all times safety
controls and standards
2. What is a Hazard?
A hazard is a condition with potential to causing
injury to personnel, damage to equipment or structures, loss
of material, or reduction of ability to perform a prescribed
function.
3. What is Risk?
Risk is an expression of possible loss over
a specified period of time or a number of operational cycles.
4. What is Risk Assessment?
Risk Assessment is the process of detecting
hazards and systematically assessing their overall risk. It
is part of the Risk Management Process.
5. What is Gambling in reference to Risk Management?
Gambling is making nonsystematic risk decisions.
6. What are the four rules of risk management?
- Integrate into planning
- Accept no unnecessary risks
- Make risk decisions at the appropriate level
- Accept risk if benefits outweigh the costs
7. What are the five steps in deliberate Risk
Management?
- Hazard identification
- Hazard assessment
- Risk control options and decision-making
- Implement controls
- Supervise
8. What are some ways that Risk Management improves
training?
- Detects hazards
- Covers all aspects of operations
- Finds more unusual hazards
- Detects failure modes
- Makes use of the life cycle
- Identifies more control options
- Integrates risk controls
- Prioritizes risk control
- Provides better risk decisions
9. You are conducting a convoy at night, transporting
ammunition. While conducting a Risk Assessment, what are some
hazards that you may find?
Possible answers:
- Traffic accident
- Possibility of fire
- Personnel injuries
- Vehicle breakdown
- Improper loading
- Ammunition explosion
- Fuel spill
- Arrival at the wrong site
- Delays
- Insufficient rest for drivers
10. You are conducting a river crossing with
your section/squad. As you conduct a risk assessment, you
analyze possible hazards. Name a control that you, as a leader,
could apply to reduce the following risks:
Hazard: you have some weak swimmers in your
section
Possible answers:
- Eliminate those soldiers from the crossing
exercise
- Conduct additional swim training prior to
the exercise
- Use buddy system with strong swimmers
Hazard: weapons security may be lost while crossing
Possible answers:
- Use a "dummy cord" on each weapon
- Pass weapons across
- Conduct sensitive items checks before and
after the crossing
Hazard: there is a strong current in the stream
Possible answers:
- Use a secured rope for the crossing
- Recon for a bridge or lower point for crossing
- Use buddy system while crossing
NOTE: Questions 9 and 10 may be asked with a
variety of scenerios |
