How to handle risks 1234- Avoidance: not taking any risk. Risk retention: active: passive: Risk control (loss prevention and reduction) Risk transfer (transferring risk to another entity by means of legal mechanisms or though actions of organizational nature) 5- Distribution (risk repartition, sharing) distributing financial effects of risk realization among a group. 6- Insurance: combining the above-mentioned methods of risk treatment: risk transfer… Is a tool that makes possible to replace an uncertain but big loss with a small but certain loss (insurance premium)