What is Risk Management?
Identifying, evaluating and controlling risk assists businesses in managing their insurance premium and claims history. A proactive solution to insurable risks.
Blake Life and Risk have partnered with reputable risk professionals who can assist with:
– Risk Reviews
– Risk Registers
– Risk Management
– Risk Strategies
Life is inherently risky and it would be impossible to protect yourself against every potential risk you face. If you are going to work hard, put money aside and invest it in things that are important to you or improve your life, it makes sense to protect those things as best you can.
Managing your risk involves a little bit of thought and planning to identify where you might be vulnerable to loss or damage. You do your best to protect your property, but you can also protect yourself from the impact of a natural disaster or if an unexpected event happens.
Insurance policies are generally referred to as reactive solutions for loss or damage. Spending some time on a strategic risk management plan can assist with avoiding the need to make a claim, furthermore resulting in a more attractive loss history. Risk management planning and improved loss histories can assist with negotiating a more competitive insurance premium.
Risk Management Basics
Most of us engage in simple risk management strategies every day.
We look after ourselves, excercise regularly, eat healthy food, go for annual check ups with our doctor, drive carefully and put our salaries straight into a bank acount.
Insurance is an important component of risk management, but it’s not the only one. Before you make the decision to buy insurance, it makes sense to review your own risks and work out how you can reduce the chance of them occurring and if they do occur, how you might reduce the impact on your life. For example, you can reduce the risk of a serious health event by simply quitting smoking, or walking a minimum of 30 mins per day.
You can then take out insurance cover so that you are not risking severe financial consequences in the unlikely event that you have an accident and cannot work for a lengthy period of time. You are only protected once you pay your premium and, in some circumstances, the policy may not take effect for a predetermined time.
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Risk in Insurance Terms
In insurance terms, risk is the chance something harmful or unexpected could happen. This might involve, dying, being diagnosed with a terminal / serious illness, or being injured.
Insurers assess and price various risks to work out how much they would need to pay out if a policyholder suffered a loss for something covered by the policy. This helps the insurer determine the amount (premium) to charge for insurance.
To be able to put a financial value on a risk, insurers calculate the probability that the insured item or property might be accidentally lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed, how often this might occur and how much it would cost to repair or replace.
By pricing risk, insurers know how much money they need to reserve to pay claims. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) also has rules in place to ensure insurers have enough capital to pay a very high volume of claims.
