Risk analysis aims to provide clients, sometimes the public, with an objective view of the risks involved in a human endeavor or induced by some natural disaster. In my Risk & Reliability for Engineers class, I already heard one student stating: “Risk analysts never make mistake, because they will never say something bad will NOT happen; they would just say the probability is small.”
Yes. Or not!
Recently six seismologists and one public servants in Italy were charged for manslaughter because of their ‘inadequate’ risk assessment. For more details, read here.