Practitioners Quiz

Introduction

This module of the website is aimed at the Practitioner who will be responsible for the technical assessment and advising the Client and Regulator in relation to Landslide Risk Management (LRM).

The format of the module is for a series of Questions relating to the understanding required by the Practitioner of the main concepts or steps in LRM.

Instructions

Multiple choice answers are provided. If you are not sure which answer may be correct, then click HINT next and further information will be provided to assist you. You can test your understanding by selecting an answer to see if you are correct or learn why your choice was not. If you chose the correct answer, you can either read the detailed answer or skip to the next question. Each detailed answer provides further links to more resources, such as video explanations, presentations or PDF extracts from guidelines that have been developed by the Australian Geomechanics Society. Further topics are discussed by FAQ pages which pose a series of questions and then give further explanations.

AGS 2007 LRM Guidelines Australian Geoguide

At any time during this module, feel free to launch the guideline PDF’s to research your answers, or simply to give yourself a refresher on Landslide Risk Management.

LRM Guidelines

Question 9 of 10

9. The Practitioner only needs to provide risk treatment requirements for the following situation:

Cases of very high risk.
Cases having unacceptable risk.
Cases where the owner/client agrees to implement risk treatment.
All cases where risk can be reduced by reasonable risk treatment methods.
This is not part of the Practitioners mandate/responsibility.

It is not possible to remove risk, but it can be reduced. Risk mitigation options should include robust engineering design to reduce uncertainties and hence risk. Risk minimization should be a governing feature or tenet of LRM.