Risk Management: Realistic Training to Standard

Leaders at all levels must build basics that will save resources in peacetime as well as in combat. We cannot afford to lose 20 percent of our fatalities to accidents as we did in World War II. We must build a safety awareness that facilitates realistic and safe training. This pamphlet contains a procedure that allows the integration of safety into our planning and implementation phases of military operations. This technique complements mission analysis and execution and allows commands to manaqe risk. Risk management is, in reality, smart decision making. It focuses on mission accomplishment while minimizing the effects of hazards that could cause accidental loss of our men and materiel. Since all soldiers, from the private to the general, make decisions that entail hazardous operations, risk management techniques are applicable to soldiers at all levels. Leaders must be trained to use risk management skills and techniques to establish situational standards that effectively balance risk with operational objectives.