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Introduction to Food Safety Risk Management
Risk Management in the context of food safety is-
the process of weighing policy alternatives to control risks as
effectively as possible. Risk managers are the decision makers. Success in risk management
means arriving at practical and useful solutions to problems that are
often plagued by uncertainty. Risk managers begin and end all
risk analysis activities, they are responsible for the risk analysis
process.
This course is about getting to the final
decision. It is designed
not just for decision makers but also for all those who will work
with decision makers.
It is strongly recommended that this course be taken after you have
completed the Overview of Risk Analysis course. The Overview course
provides contextual information about risk analysis that is not repeated
here.
Overview of Topics
Paradigms and How We Think
About Things
- The Risk Manager’s Role
- The Power of the Paradigm
- What Influences Thinking
- How We Reason
- Risk Analysis as a Paradigm
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Risk Management Frameworks
and Models
- Defining Risk Management
- Risk management principles
- Categories of risk management activities
- Domestic and International Models
- The U.S. FDA Framework
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Getting the Question Right
- Decision-Making Principles
- Distinguishing Problems from Opportunities
- Objectives and Constraints
- Question Hierarchy
- Risk Profiles
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Making Sense of Numbers
- Dealing with Variability and Uncertainty
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
- What Managers must know about the Risk Assessment Model
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Risk Management Options
- Simple Decision Rules
- Multiple Objective Decisions
- Multi-criteria Decision Support Model
- Trade-offs
- Marginal Principle
- Sources of Management Alternatives
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Interactions Between Assessors and Managers
- Coordination and Cooperation
- Purpose of a Risk Assessment
- Benchmarking RM Practices
- Characteristics of Good and Poor Teams
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Learning Objectives
After completing this course, students can
- Describe the risk manager’s role in risk analysis
- Describe
two principle risk management models
- Discuss decision making under uncertainty
- Write a problems and opportunities statement
- Write an objectives and constraints statement
- Write a questions statement
- Identify elements of a risk profile
- Distinguish concepts of uncertainty and variability and their
importance in decision making
- Identify several key properties of a good risk characterization
- Use brainstorming for option formulation
- Distinguish the evaluation, comparison, and selection steps
- Discuss the economist’s view of making choices
- Distinguish between the monitoring, evaluation, and modification
steps
- Define food safety management objectives
- List several techniques for engaging stakeholders
- Define the team process for risk analysis
This course meets a requirement of the JIFSAN Core Certificate
in Food Safety Risk Analysis.
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