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paperwork that turns 'what could go wrong' into a number everyone agrees to ignore later.
means a systematic way of identifying what could hurt you, how badly, and how likely, before it happens instead of after.
from formalized by insurers and engineers in the 20th century, who got tired of learning safety lessons from disasters instead of spreadsheets.
nuclear originsmodern methods trace to 1970s reactor safety studies
matrix tricklikelihood times impact, plotted on a colored grid
blind spotgreat at known risks, useless against imagined ones