ALARP 03
ALARP 03 : Acronym for the legal term 'as low as reasonably practicable'. It requires the weighing up of the level of risk against the costs in the widest sense of averting that risk. Only where the dutyholder can show that the costs of averting the risk are grossly disproportionate to the benefits from further reducing the risk can it be said that the risk has been reduced ALARP