As Low As Reasonably Practicable, or ALARP, is one of the fundamental principles of risk management. We neither need nor want, to manage risk to the point where we eliminate it because doing so is a waste of valuable resources. ALARP refers to the notional point where risk is managed to be as low as we can reasonably make it. Often this refers to the point where risk is either negligible or at least at a level where it can be managed by routine procedures. Sometimes, however, ALARP can still be
