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maîtrise des risques

English translation: risk management


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French term or phrase:maîtrise des risques
English translation:risk management
Entered by: Gaurav Sharma
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14:03 Jan 10, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
French term or phrase: maîtrise des risques
XXX Industrie met en place les activités d'assurance de la qualité permettant de garantir l’efficience du processus de maîtrise des risques.
La fonction assurance de la qualité participe à l'élaboration du plan de management des risques et veille au respect des dispositions qu’il contient.

I am not able to decide what does it mean. My try here is Risk management. Please help.
Gaurav Sharma
India
risk management
Explanation:
The Asker's first guess is correct. This is the usual term used, whether in IT or other business endeavors.

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Note added at 35 mins (2012-01-10 14:38:22 GMT)
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"Risk management" is the all-encompassing term that covers all aspects of a risk management plan, including risk mitigation -- steps taken to prevent a risk from becoming a full-blown issue, and a contingency plan -- steps to be taken should that indeed occur.

I'm not certain what "risk control" refers to, since I've never seen the term in my work managing risks, but In the context of a contract, the more generally understood and accepted term "risk management" would be used, to avoid any ambiguities, among other reasons.
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Hal D'Arpini
Local time: 09:30
Grading comment
Thnx Hal,
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +7risk management
Hal D'Arpini
4 +2risk containmentpolyglot45
4 +2risk control procedures
Jenn Mercer
Summary of reference entries provided
B D Finch
2 déf. : maîtrise des risques et gestion des risques
Petitavoine

  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
risk control procedures


Explanation:
Use "risk control procedures" for "processus de maîtrise des risques" and save "risk management" for "gestion des risques."

Jenn Mercer
United States
Local time: 03:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Hal D'Arpini: Given B D's reference, I change my comment to "neutral," since "risk control" is plausible.
10 mins
agree  B D Finch: without "procedures"
1 hr
agree  philgoddard: This is much less common than "risk management", but it's not wrong.
1 hr
neutral  writeaway: quality control but risk management afaik
19 hrs
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
risk management


Explanation:
The Asker's first guess is correct. This is the usual term used, whether in IT or other business endeavors.

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Note added at 35 mins (2012-01-10 14:38:22 GMT)
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"Risk management" is the all-encompassing term that covers all aspects of a risk management plan, including risk mitigation -- steps taken to prevent a risk from becoming a full-blown issue, and a contingency plan -- steps to be taken should that indeed occur.

I'm not certain what "risk control" refers to, since I've never seen the term in my work managing risks, but In the context of a contract, the more generally understood and accepted term "risk management" would be used, to avoid any ambiguities, among other reasons.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management
Hal D'Arpini
Local time: 09:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thnx Hal,

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  piazza d
16 mins
  -> Thanks.
agree  cc in nyc
44 mins
  -> Thanks, cc.
agree  Joseph Manley: The further context even uses the word "management". Risk management is clearly correct and the term of art.
50 mins
  -> Thanks. B makes a point in her refernce (but not her over-strong “disagree,” since my TT is at the very least plausible), but since the same company will be responsible for both the “maîtrise” and the “management,” my all-encompassing term is appropriate.
agree  Mike Sadler
1 hr
  -> Thanks.
agree  Neil Crockford
1 hr
  -> Thanks.
disagree  B D Finch: Particularly as the extract later contains the term "plan de management des risques", it is likely this should be translated as "risk control". See my reference comment.
1 hr
  -> Plausible, and interesting that post-assessment tasks are lumped together thusly in the UK. But using two separate terms in a source text doesn't necessarily preclude a single term in the target text, especially if the TT encompasses the two STs.
agree  philgoddard: The fact that the text uses the English word "management" means this is clearly an appropriate translation.
1 hr
agree  AllegroTrans
2 hrs
agree  writeaway
19 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
risk containment


Explanation:
Risk management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management
Design a new business process with adequate built-in risk control and containment measures from the start. Periodically re-assess risks that are accepted in ...

To give you another option

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 72

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  rkillings: The best option. Save 'management' for gestion and 'control' for its cognate. You're likely to encounter them all in the same text.
3 hrs
agree  Jenny Forbes
14 hrs
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference

Reference information:
www.clinicalgovernance.scot.nhs.uk/documents/risk_control.pdf
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Risk control is about the methods you can use to get rid of or manage a risk: • Avoidance – identifying and implementing alternative procedures or activities to ..."

www.adeak.com/2010/03/what-is-risk-control/
"Risk control and monitoring are part of the risk management process and must be started early in the project and continued until the end. "

The citation below would have been clearer with proper punctuation (a colon after "Project Risk Management").

"Effective Risk Management

There are two stages in the process of Project Risk Management, Risk Assessment and Risk Control. Risk Assessment can take place at any time during the project, though the sooner the better. However, Risk Control cannot be effective without a previous Risk Assessment. Similarly, most people tend to think that having performed a Risk Assessment, they have done all that is needed. Far too many projects spend a great deal of effort on Risk Assessment and then ignore Risk control completely."
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rtusler/project/riskprin.html

B D Finch
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 201
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3 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: 2 déf. : maîtrise des risques et gestion des risques

Reference information:
Je rejoins DB Finch. Il y a une première phase de la gestion des risques qui constitue à rechercher, définir etc.
Après, il faut bien entreprendre quelque chose quand on a levé un lièvre. Donc, par exemple, mitigation, comme Hal le signale, ou réduction des risques etc., c'est le domaine de la maîtrise des risques proprement dite.

Sous le lien ci-dessous on trouve quelques définitions dont celles-ci :

"Commençons par préciser ce que l'on entend par maîtrise des risques et gestion des risques.


Définition : Maîtrise des risques


Processus d'application de la politique de l'organisme permettant la mise en œuvre itérative et continue de l'analyse et de la gestion des risques d'un projet [AFNOR - FD X50-117]. La maîtrise des risques est le résultat normal de la mise en place d'une procédure de gestion des risques.


(Dans cette définition normalisée, le terme de « projet » provient du contexte industriel à l'origine de la définition (le projet de conception d'un nouvel avion par exemple). Il peut être étendu sans difficulté au domaine de la construction et de l'aménagement.)


Définition : Gestion du risque


Procédure globale regroupant l'appréciation du risque, la décision (définition de la stratégie d'action), le traitement du risque et sa surveillance."


    Reference: http://www.unit.eu/cours/cyberrisques/etage_1/co/Module_Etag...
Petitavoine
Germany
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Hal D'Arpini: I agree, all these steps are a given, but in the U.S., where I worked in IT risk management for several years, we never distinguished between the entire process (“gestion”) and its operational aspect (“matrise”). It all fell under “risk management.”
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Changes made by editors
Jan 10 - Changes made by writeaway:
Field (specific)Law: Contract(s) => Business/Commerce (general)


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