# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- define risk in the most appropriate way, and appreciate the need to prioritise risks
- appreciate the costs of illness associated with workplace activities
- describe in outline the development of models used to explain the cause of incidents and to promote prevention
- recognise the multiple causes contributing to many incidents, and be able to represent them diagrammatically
- illustrate the components of an integrated management system.

OpenLearn - Integrated safety, health and environmental management
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