Abstract
Introduces the fundamentals of risk management, its principles and main concepts. It also presents the risk management strategic line which is essential to organize all the breadth of multidisciplinary knowledge that is scattered in different fields of human knowledge. The risk management strategic line is composed of five elements which are presented in detail in the subsequent chapters. It includes basic concepts about risk, hazard, safety culture, human factors, human error, and risk management, in addition to highlighting the technical operational knowledge as the most important basis for preventing accidents or reducing their losses. It presents the figure of the “safety pendulum” and the “risk management strategic line” and and its five elements: technical and operational knowledge; hazard reduction; removal of agents (people); emergency control; and reduction of unpredictability.
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