Risk management

• Risk management is forecasting and evaluating ethical risks and how to minimise or avoid their impact
• Risk management procedure

  1. identify the risk
  2. Assess the risk
  3. Plan response to risk
  4. Implement response
• Identify the risk is use the code of ethics and conduct, meet legal requirement, reflect on established principles values and standards
• Assess the risk Is to carry out a cost benifit analysis, welfare of the participants then how serious would it be if it does occur
• Plan response to risk is develop alternative courses of action, take responsibility and monitor the risk
• Implement response is the control the ethical risk so its lessens (debriefing) apologies for negative outcomes
• Costs are potential negative consequences
• Benefits are potential positive consequences
• Bateson 1986

  1. How likely is it that there will be a benefit
  2. The importance of the research (are the benefits of high value)
  3. The costs (what is the suffering involved)