This course is aimed at project staff including project leaders, sponsors, project team members, support staff and functional staff involved in project activity. It is especially suited to teams working on bids, feasibility and project start up. By the end of this course participants will be able to: describe success factors and benefits arising from effective risk management; explain human behaviour factors affecting risk management; establish the project context and conduct an initial risk assessment; define an appropriate strategy and produce a risk management plan; define risk identification strategies and apply appropriate identification methods; identify and record important risk information including ownership.