Help me Identify Risks to my Survival

[westgirl]

Hi all

 

Many companies or organizations do risk assessments to figure out what could go wrong. They then assess the likelihood of things going wrong, the impact they would have on the organization, and then they take preventative action, devoting more resources to those risks that are expected to have the worst impact.

 

If it is a good idea for companies or organizations to perform risk assessments, it follows that individuals should also apply risk management to themselves.

 

I intend to do this.

 

I have begun brainstorming a list of threats to my survival. It is below. I am worried because maybe there are some risks that I have missed out that are not on the list. I am interested in hearing whether any of you have any risks to survival that you think exists. It doesn't matter how unlikely it is or how trivial. In the second stage of my risk management assessment I will look at likelihood and impact, but for now I just want to brainstorm a list of risks to my survival.

 

If you could add to the list, that would be very helpful and I would greatly appreciate it!

 

Thanks

 

 

Current List of Threats to Individual Survival

 

* Road traffic accident

 

* Social risk

isolation

shame from failure

 

* Employment risk

Losing my job.

Being tortured or bullied at work.

 

* Shelter risk

Being kicked out of my parents’ home, in which I now live.

Being tortured or bullied at home.

 

* Being a victim of criminal behavior

Being a victim of a scam or hoax

Having a loved one kidnapped and tortured with ransom demanded from you

Someone taking a picture of you naked and demanding ransom (i.e. extortion or blackmail)

 

* Being attacked on the street by thugs

during a Friday night out with friends

while commuting to and from work/school/uni

 

* Health risks

getting cardiovascular diseases

getting Type 2 Diabetes

getting cancer

poisoning (e.g. from alcohol)

getting an infectious disease, e.g. a deadly virus

getting a sexually transmitted infection (STI)

mental deterioration due to e.g. watching too much TV

getting old and falling

drowning

 

* Harmful addictions

gambling addiction

finger cracking addiction

laziness

television addiction

 

* Macroeconomics risks

breakdown of civilization

riots

collapse of the stock market and bond market

economic depression

stagflation

 

* Political risks

invasion from another country or internal or external terrorist group

nuclear attack

biological attack

conventional bomb attack

 

* Natural disasters

floods

hurricane

earthquake

biological epidemic

Edited June 19, 2010 by westgirl

[cypress]

Hmm....

 

Business risk assessments generally focus on risks they can influence or manage. An open ended risk assessment might just scare you to death.

[Horza2002]

Emotional risk?

[insane_alien]

there are too many potential risks to list in any usable form.

 

the chances of any of them happening are however quite low.