Science, Maths & Technology
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
...law maxim de minimis non curat lex: ‘the law does not concern itself with trifles’. A one-in-a-million level of increased risk over a lifetime is often used as a reasonable criterion for separating high-risk problems (which warrant attention) from negligible-risk problems (which do not). Of course, you can try to quantify such risks, but still your perception of...