Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

# Learning outcomes

After studying this course you should be able to:

- understand what is meant by risk
- carry out a basic risk assessment
- understand how accidents can be caused
- use probability to assess risk and minimise the occurrence of undesirable outcomes.

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