Finally an assessment of the any risk management strategies that may be employed to ensure any potential harm is maintained under control any reduce the level of potential adverse effects that may be posed by the LMO is carried out.

If risks are identified during the last step above, risk management strategies may be identified which may effectively prevent, control or mitigate the harm from happening. As such, the risk assessment process often includes an additional step to identify a range of possible risk management strategies that could reduce the level of risk.

It is worth noting, however, that it is only during the decision-making process that a choice is made as to whether or not risk management strategies should be implemented (see more details on the identification of risk management strategies in Module 4).