Manejo de riesgo (Risk Management). ERIC Digest.

The ordinary conduct of school business is accompanied today by risks that were rare or unknown a few decades ago. This ERIC Digest in Spanish discusses how risk management, a concept long used by corporate decision makers, can help school boards and administrators conserve their districts' assets. Risk management is a coordinated effort to protect an organization's human, physical, and financial assets. The Digest describes how school districts can identify and evaluate risks and delineates various loss-control activities that help to reduce or eliminate risks. It also discusses the ways in which districts can finance unavoidable risks, usually through the purchase of insurance. Finally, the factors of an effective risk-management program are identified. (LMI)