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You accomplish Step 3 in two substeps: develop controls and make riskdecisions. After assessing each hazard, leaders develop controls that eithereliminate the hazard or reduce the risk (probability and/or severity) of a hazardousincident. They consider the reason for the hazard, not just the hazard itself.Controls can take many forms, but fall into three basic categories.QUESTION: What are the three categories?ANSWER:• Educational controls--based on the knowledge and skills of the units andindividuals.• Physical controls--barriers, guards, or signs to warn individuals and units that ahazard exists.• Avoidance--actions taken to prevent contact with an identified hazard.Ref: FM 100-14, p 2-14QUESTION: What criteria must the controls meet to be effective?ANSWER:• Suitability--it must remove the hazard or reduce the residual risk to an acceptablelevel.• Feasibility--the unit must have the capability to implement the control.• Acceptability--the benefit gained by implementing the control must justify the costin resources and time.Ref: FM 100-14, p 2-14The last thing to consider in this substep is residual risk.QUESTION: What is residual risk?ANSWER: It is the risk remaining after selecting controls for the hazard.Ref: FM 100-14, p 2-16You determine the overall residual risk of a mission when you identify more thanone hazard. Each of these hazards may have a different level you determine theoverall residual mission risk based on the incident having the greatest residual risk.REMOVE VGT-817