• Risk acceptance or risk containment is a conscious strategy of recognizing the possibility of small or rare risks without taking measures to hedge, hedge or avoid these risks.

  • The implication of risk acceptance is that the cost of risk mitigation or risk avoidance is too high to be justified given the small likelihood of the hazard or the small expected impact it may have.
  • Self-insurance is a form of risk taking. Insurance, on the other hand, transfers the risk to a third party.