title: Guidance publication proves timely.
abstract: The importance of properly identifying, assessing, and managing risk in all areas of engineering practice, the fact that genuine innovation is almost impossible without a certain element of risk-taking, and the need to acknowledge and respond to public concerns, however much some may be ill-founded, over the risks inherent in technological and engineering advances, are highlighted in a new risk guidance document, Guidance on Risk for the Engineering Profession, published by the Engineering Council in London last month. HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie reports.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D012308:Risk Management; D006113:United Kingdom