The Swiss Cheese Model is a risk management framework that illustrates how multiple layers of defense, each with potential weaknesses, can align to allow an accident or error to occur. It emphasizes the importance of addressing vulnerabilities in each layer to prevent failures in complex systems.

Swiss Cheese Model

A risk management framework is a structured process used by organizations to identify, assess, manage, and monitor risks, ensuring that they are within acceptable levels to achieve business objectives. It integrates risk management into the organization's overall strategy and decision-making processes, promoting a proactive approach to handling potential threats and opportunities.

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Multiple layers of defense

Potential weaknesses

Accident or error

Addressing vulnerabilities

Prevent failures

Complex systems are characterized by intricate interactions and interdependencies among their components, leading to emergent behavior that cannot be easily predicted from the properties of individual parts. These systems are often adaptive, dynamic, and exhibit non-linear behaviors, making them challenging to analyze and manage.

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