How does RSEI differ from a formal risk assessment?
Formal risk assessments are complicated and time consuming to perform, and often require detailed data which are not always available. They are often limited in scope and geographic area. The risk-related estimates produced by RSEI do consider the important factors of risk assessment, but do not address every potential factor. RSEI results are meaningful only in comparison to other RSEI results, and do not describe a specific level of risk.