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Risk Management for Canada and Canadians:

Report of the ADM
Working Group on Risk Management

March 2000


Table of Contents

PREFACE
 

 

NOTE FROM THE CHAIR  

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

1.1  Purpose

 

 

 

 

 

 

RISK MANAGEMENT TERMINOLOGY

2.1  A Horizontal Perspective
2.2  Key Terms
2.3  Contextual Concepts

 

 

 

 

 

 

CREATING A FRAMEWORK

KEY COMMON ELEMENTS

3.1  A Decision-Making Process
3.2  Incorporating the Public Element
3.3  Precautionary Approach
3.4  Constant Considerations
3.5  Synopsis of the Framework

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATIONS AND NEXT STEPS

NEXT STEPS

4.1  A Goverment-Wide Risk Management Framework
4.2  The Legal Context of Risk Management
4.3  The Precautionary Approach and the International Context
4.4  Risk Communications and Consultations
4.5  Risk Management Training

 

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Annex A:

Risk Management in Public Policy: A Decision-Making Process

Annex B:

Background on the Working Group
Membership of the Working Group
Outside Experts Who Assisted the Working Group

Annex C:

Ongoing Work in the Goverment

 

 

 

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