The funny thing about risk managers, is that a lot of us don't manage risks, we manage risk management systems. In a large organisation one risk manager or even a team of them can't manage risks across the whole business. Risks are managed by people on the ground, people who understand the business, people who are responsible if something goes wrong, people who can make decisions and make things happen. People like you - risk owners. The purpose of this book is to take the concept of risk ownership right back to basics and get you on the right track to really understanding how you can manage your risks. It will tell you how you can identify risks and articulate them so that there is no ambiguity and the risk is clearly understood by all. It will tell you how to assess them and how to identify the controls that you have in place and it will tell you all about decision making and how you can escalate risks when you run out of options.This book is not intended for risk managers, the concepts and principles laid out here will be very familiar to them.

Nor is it an academic text. What it is though, is a simple easy to read handbook for the risk owner that will take you back to basics and lead you through the fundamentals of risk management. If you are responsible for managing business risks, project risks, clinical risks or indeed pretty much any sort of risk, this book is for you.