How Transportation Risk Management Can Reduce Health Risks
Transportation risk management is a professional management discipline that deals with transportation, workplace safety, and food safety. It is concerned with the risks of transporting, storing, handling, and disposing of hazardous materials and products. It studies both the development and functioning of organizations, production processes, and operations through a series of life cycle processes. The core concepts of this discipline are supply chain analysis, management of critical assets, industrial organization models, safety planning, and operations improvement. In the next section, we will learn more about the different types of transportation risk management. Manufacturing companies that use transportation risk management for their production processes usually have a chain of manufacturing, transportation, and distribution processes. The ability to control each of these processes reduces the need for outside contractors and cuts costs. For example, when shipping hazardou...