Risk management is a continuous process which: ?Identifies risk ?Analyzes risk and its impact, and prioritizes risk ?Develops and implements risk mitigation or acceptance ?Tracks risks and risk mitigation implementation plans ?Assures risk information is communicated to all project/program levels ?Risk management planning ?Developed during the program/project formulation phase ?Included in the program/project plans ?Executed/maintained during the implementation phase ?Risk management responsibility ?Program/project manager has the overall responsibility for the Implementation of risk management, ensuring an integrated, coherent risk management approach throughout the project NPG 8715.3, NASA Safety Manual ?Purpose of risk assessment is to identify and evaluate risks to support decision-making regarding actions to ensure safety and mission assurance ?Risk assessment analyses should use the simplest methods that adequately characterize the probability and severity of undesired events ?Qualitative methods that characterize hazards and failure modes and effects should be used first ?Quantitative methods are to be used when qualitative methods do not provide an adequate understanding of failures, consequences, and events ?System safety analysis must include early interaction with project engineering, integration, and operations functions to ensure all hazards are identified ?The hazard assessment process is a principle factor in the understanding and management of technical risk ?As part of the responsibility for overall risk management, the program/project manager must ensure that system safety analyses, appropriate to the program/project complexity, have been conducted NSTS 22206, instructions for preparation of FMEA and CIL [for Space Shuttle] ?System and performance requirements are defined ?Analysis assumptions and groundrules are specified ?Block diagrams (functional or reliability) are developed ?Analysis worksheets which include identification of every failure mode are developed (the effects documented address the worst case.) ?Corrective actions and design improvements are evaluated and recommended ?Analysis is summarized in report form ?SSP 30234, instructions for preparation of FMEA and CIL [for Space Station] ?FMEA process, requirements, rules, reporting requirements are described ?CIL process, requirements, rules, reporting requirements are described ?Ground support equipment FMEA and CIL processes, requirements, approvals, and databases are described