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Business Tasmania

Risk management

Risk management helps you make better business decisions, reduce disruption, and helps prepare for things that may have a negative impact on your business.

This could be natural or man-made disasters, economic turn-downs of workplace health and safety issues. Take a look at our Emergency Preparation Toolkit to give you a simple checklist to work from.

Risk management starts with identifying the different types of risk and when events in your business will allow you to control the opportunities and manage the uncertainties.  As a business owner, you're required by law to manage some risks.

For example, you must manage or reduce the risk of:

Begin by finding out about risk management practices and how you can use them in your business. You should also talk to others involved in your business (including your employees and your customers) to work out the best way to manage risk in your business.

Something you may need to consider in your business is robbery prevention and protection. See our Crime prevention and recovery page for support with this.