Risk management must face the void and vertigo of the blank sheet and begin to list possible events of harmful consequences and then break down each of these contingencies and try to get to their smallest details, to evaluate the economic consequences, treat From finding clues to eliminate each of the dangers and detailing the potential damages of all those risks that cannot be avoided with 100% certainty, this work constitutes the elaboration of the risk map.

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Knowing the different types of risks that may exist makes it easier to take them into account when identifying them. For this, it is necessary to know the greatest number of risks that may arise, their possibilities, the causes that originate them and the different ways in which they tend to manifest themselves. Factors to be used for the subsequent assessment of the possible consequences of these risks, the estimation of their cost, and their measurement, effects and management.

All this, with the aim of avoiding or reducing as far as possible any type of risk, and, if it is so decided: assume them and implement actions to alleviate their consequences, or on the contrary, transfer them to other entities and / or establish the appropriate coverage for each case.