Risk management should be an integral part of your business strategy. Employees or third parties who are injured while working for you can have a significant impact on your business, with costly claims and lost working hours, as well as legal issues if you haven’t met statutory requirements, like fire safety assessments.Risk management becomes even more important if your business decides to try something new, for example launch a new product or enter new markets. Competitors following you into these markets, or breakthroughs in technology which make your product redundant, are two risks you may want to consider in cases such as these. Identifying financial risk involves examining your daily financial operations, especially cash flow.