In January 2024, The Joint Commission released its 2023 Sentinel Event Statistics, naming falls the most frequently reported sentinel event for the third year running, with 567 falls voluntarily reported.
The same report documented that 88 percent of those falls caused serious permanent harm or death. For US risk leaders, that single data point reframes falls risk assessment from a quality nicety into a financial control.
| The Practitioner Cheat Sheet on Falls Risk Assessment |
| A falls risk assessment is the structured clinical evaluation that quantifies a patient’s probability of falling and matches that probability to specific interventions. The output drives care planning, not a binary flag. Every US hospital under Joint Commission accreditation must run one on admission and after any clinical status change. |
| Falls were the leading reported sentinel event at The Joint Commission in 2023, with 567 falls logged, the third consecutive year falls topped the list. The Joint Commission Sentinel Event Statistics from January 2024 also confirmed that 88% of reported falls caused serious harm or death. |
| The CDC counts 14 million older adults falling each year, 41,000 fall-related deaths in 2023, and roughly 3 million annual emergency department visits for fall injuries. The annual US direct medical cost of fall injuries sits at $50 billion, with Medicare absorbing 67% of that load. |
| Five validated falls risk assessment tools dominate US practice: Morse Fall Scale for hospital inpatients, STRATIFY for acute care, Hendrich II for hospital and skilled nursing facility settings, the Timed Up and Go for outpatient screening, and the CDC STEADI three-question screen for primary care. |
| Multifactorial intervention bundles reduce fall rates by roughly 31% versus 14 to 23% for single-component approaches, per Cochrane systematic reviews. Programs that pair the falls risk assessment with exercise plus medication review plus environmental modification consistently outperform single-pillar programs by a wide margin. |
| CMS no longer reimburses preventable inpatient falls under its Hospital-Acquired Conditions policy. A single inpatient fall with serious injury runs the facility $30,000 to $110,000 in unreimbursed care, plus malpractice exposure tracked publicly through Hospital Compare and Care Compare. |
| Reassessment is the most-skipped step. Reassess after any fall, after a clinical status change, after a medication change, and at every care setting transition. Camp-style annual schedules are necessary but not sufficient under current Joint Commission and CMS expectations. |
Falls risk assessment is the structured clinical evaluation US healthcare systems use to predict which patients will fall and to direct prevention. The CDC reports one in four adults over 65 falls each year, and falls remain the leading cause of injury-related death in older Americans.
Falls cost the US healthcare system roughly $50 billion annually in direct medical costs, with Medicare carrying about 67 percent of that load.
This guide gives US clinicians, risk managers, and compliance leaders a working definition of falls risk assessment, the validated tools that survive Joint Commission survey scrutiny, the multifactorial interventions that the evidence actually supports, and the operational pitfalls that produce CMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions citations.
The framework maps cleanly to ISO 31000:2018 risk analysis and to an enterprise risk management framework applied to clinical operations.
Figure 1. The US falls risk assessment landscape in numbers that drive board attention.
What a Falls Risk Assessment Actually Is
Strip away the form and the falls risk assessment is a systematic clinical evaluation that quantifies how likely a patient is to fall and identifies the specific risk factors driving that probability. The output is not a single number on a chart.
It is a structured profile across physical, cognitive, pharmacological, and environmental dimensions that maps directly to targeted preventive interventions.
The Working Definition of Falls Risk Assessment
Picture the falls risk assessment as a layered diagnostic. Clinicians collect history, observe gait, review medications, screen cognition, and inspect the environment, then combine the inputs against a validated scoring tool.
The score triggers a care-plan tier, and that tier dictates bed alarms, ambulation supervision, footwear, lighting, and family education. A binary high or low flag is not a falls risk assessment.
Why Falls Risk Assessment Is Not a Compliance Checkbox
Falls are not a normal feature of aging, even though most US patients and many clinicians still treat them that way.
A properly executed falls risk assessment identifies the modifiable factors driving an individual patient’s risk, which is the only basis for intervention that will actually change the outcome. Skip the assessment and any prevention program collapses into generic precautions.
From a risk discipline standpoint, falls risk assessment maps directly to the identify-analyze-evaluate-treat sequence at the heart of ISO 31000:2018.
The same logic shows up in a guide to risk assessment methodology and across clinical risk management practice. A risk you have not measured is one you cannot treat, which is why falls programs without a real assessment underperform.
Why Falls Risk Assessment Matters Across US Healthcare
Three forces push falls risk assessment to the top of the US clinical risk agenda: patient outcomes, financial penalties, and accreditation exposure.
The clinical case is decisive on its own. A serious fall produces hip fractures, traumatic brain injuries, and a downward functional spiral that often ends in long-term care placement, transforming an episode of care into a permanent loss of independence.
The Financial Case for Falls Risk Assessment
CMS treats certain fall-related injuries as preventable Hospital-Acquired Conditions and refuses to reimburse for them. If a hospital inpatient fractures a hip falling from a bed, the facility absorbs the cost.
A single inpatient fall with serious injury runs $30,000 to $110,000 in unreimbursed direct care, plus malpractice and reputational exposure. The CDC older-adult fall cost data makes the math impossible to ignore for any hospital CFO.
Falls Risk Assessment Under Joint Commission and CMS Scrutiny
The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals explicitly require accredited hospitals to reduce the risk of patient harm from falls. Joint Commission surveyors look for evidence the assessment was done, scored, documented, and actually drove the care plan. The gap between a policy that exists and a process that runs is where most fall-related citations originate.
For risk managers, falls risk assessment sits at the intersection of clinical risk, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship.
The same data point that prevents a hip fracture closes a CMS reimbursement gap and a Joint Commission citation simultaneously. The pattern echoes how to conduct a risk assessment applied to a clinical context.
Figure 2. Adjusted odds ratios for the modifiable risk factors a falls risk assessment captures.
Risk Factors a Falls Risk Assessment Must Capture
Falls almost never trace to a single cause. Real fall events combine patient-specific factors with environmental conditions that interact in ways a one-page checklist cannot fully describe.
Clinicians trained in falls risk assessment learn to read these factors together, weighing the interaction effects, not in isolation. The table below summarizes the major risk factor categories and their evidence-based weight.
| Risk factor category | Common examples | Why it matters in a falls risk assessment |
| Intrinsic (patient) | Muscle weakness, impaired balance, cognitive decline, vision problems | High weight; directly impairs motor control and reaction time. Drives most validated tool scores. |
| Medications | Sedatives, antihypertensives, diuretics, anticoagulants, opioids, antipsychotics | High weight; produces dizziness, orthostatic hypotension, and impaired alertness. Anticoagulants do not cause falls but amplify the injury. |
| Medical conditions | Parkinson disease, diabetes, stroke, arthritis, dementia, peripheral neuropathy | Moderate to high weight; impairs mobility, sensation, or executive function. Control level matters more than diagnosis alone. |
| Extrinsic (environment) | Wet floors, poor lighting, missing grab bars, loose rugs, cluttered pathways, beds too high | Moderate weight; highly actionable through occupational therapy assessment and home modification. |
| History of prior falls | One or more falls in the past 12 months, near misses, recurrent fall pattern | Strongest single predictor of future falls. Forces a full reassessment in every validated tool. |
Age and Physical Frailty in Falls Risk Assessment
Aging produces predictable physiological changes: sarcopenia, slower proprioception, reduced bone density, and altered gait.
Frailty sits as a distinct construct, a state of diminished physiological reserve that makes a patient vulnerable to small stressors. The Clinical Frailty Scale lets clinicians quantify frailty alongside other risk factors and recalibrate intervention intensity to match.
History of Prior Falls in Falls Risk Assessment
A prior fall is the single strongest predictor of a future fall and shows up as a high-weight item in every validated tool. Clinicians document falls in the prior 12 months as a standard screening question.
The reasoning is direct: a patient who has already fallen has demonstrated that their current risk profile is sufficient to produce a fall, and absent intervention that profile will produce another one.
Circumstances matter beyond the binary count. A fall while rushing to the bathroom at night points to different interventions than a fall during a community walk.
Context drives the prescription, which is why a competent falls risk assessment captures location, time, activity, and contributing factors, not just the count. This precision is what separates assessment-driven prevention from generic protocol-driven prevention.
Medications and Polypharmacy in Falls Risk Assessment
Medication-related falls are common and largely preventable. Sedatives and hypnotics impair alertness and coordination. Antihypertensives and diuretics cause orthostatic hypotension. Opioids impair balance and cognitive function.
Antipsychotics and antidepressants affect central nervous system processing and muscle tone. Anticoagulants do not cause falls but dramatically increase injury severity once a fall happens.
Polypharmacy, the concurrent use of five or more medications, multiplies the interaction surface and is particularly common in older adults with multiple chronic conditions.
A pharmacist-led medication review is a standard component of every mature falls risk assessment program in US hospitals and long-term care facilities. The American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria supplies the working reference for medications considered potentially inappropriate in older adults.
Medical Conditions in Falls Risk Assessment
Specific diagnoses change which interventions will work. Parkinson disease produces gait freezing and postural instability. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy reduces foot sensation. Stroke causes hemiplegia or visual field deficits.
Arthritis limits joint range of motion. Cognitive impairment reduces the patient’s ability to recognize and respond to environmental hazards in the moment a fall is about to happen.
A clinician running a falls risk assessment does not stop at noting the presence of these conditions. The assessment captures how well controlled each is, how the conditions interact with the patient’s medications, and which specific impairments each produces.
That granularity is the basis for matching interventions to a patient rather than to a category. A scenario based risk assessment approach is the natural fit for the medication-condition interactions.
Environmental Hazards in Falls Risk Assessment
Environmental risk factors are often the easiest to remediate inside a falls risk assessment. Wet floors, inadequate lighting, missing grab bars, loose rugs, cluttered pathways, and beds or chairs set too high all raise the probability of a fall.
Hospital settings add their own hazards: call lights out of reach, unfamiliar room layouts, and IV poles that complicate safe ambulation.
Occupational therapists carry the heaviest load on environmental assessment, particularly for home-based patients. A home safety evaluation identifies and remediates hazards before they produce an injury.
Mature US programs send the OT into the home as a default for any patient scoring at high fall risk on discharge planning, not as an exception. The same logic shows up inoperational risk management applied to physical-plant exposures.
Validated Falls Risk Assessment Tools Used in US Healthcare
US healthcare organizations do not rely on clinical intuition for falls risk assessment. Validated, standardized tools produce consistent, comparable risk scores that can be documented, tracked across time, and used to trigger specific care protocols.
The choice of tool matters less than consistent application. A program that uses one tool reliably will outperform a program that mixes three inconsistently.
| Tool | Primary setting | Time to administer | What the tool captures |
| Morse Fall Scale | Hospital inpatient | ~3 minutes | 6 factors including history, gait, IV/saline lock, ambulatory aid, mental status |
| STRATIFY | Acute hospital | ~5 minutes | Transfer ability, agitation, vision impairment, toileting frequency, fall history |
| Hendrich II Fall Risk Model | Hospital / SNF | ~5 minutes | Confusion, depression, altered elimination, dizziness, gender, antiepileptics, benzodiazepines, GUTI |
| Timed Up and Go (TUG) | Outpatient / rehab | ~10 minutes | Functional mobility, balance, gait speed; >12 seconds flags elevated fall risk |
| STEADI 3-question screen | Primary care / ambulatory | ~2 minutes screen | Falls in past year, unsteadiness, fear of falling; positive screen triggers full STEADI assessment |
Figure 3. Pooled sensitivity and specificity of the falls risk assessment tools US programs use most.
CDC STEADI in the Falls Risk Assessment Toolkit
The CDC’s STEADI initiative (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries) gives US primary care providers a freely available, evidence-based toolkit. It includes screening questionnaires, the Timed Up and Go test, a 30-second chair stand test, a 4-stage balance test, and a medication review guide.
STEADI has spread across US ambulatory settings since 2013 and is the default reference for office-based falls risk assessment in 2026.
Choosing the Right Falls Risk Assessment Tool for the Setting
Setting drives tool choice. Acute hospital inpatient units run Morse Fall Scale or Hendrich II at admission and after every clinical status change. Skilled nursing facilities frequently extend Hendrich II for its specific medication and elimination items.
Outpatient geriatrics and rehab clinics use the Timed Up and Go alongside the Berg Balance Scale. Primary care uses STEADI for population-level screening with the full battery triggered by a positive 3-question screen.
Evidence-Based Interventions That Follow a Falls Risk Assessment
Assessment without follow-through is paperwork. The value of a falls risk assessment lives entirely in the intervention sequence it triggers. Effective falls prevention programs are multifactorial, meaning they layer several interventions on top of the assessment rather than relying on any single component.
The American Geriatrics Society falls prevention guidelines anchor the evidence base, and Cochrane systematic reviews consistently show that multifactorial bundles outperform single-pillar approaches.
Figure 4. Pooled fall-rate reductions for interventions a falls risk assessment can trigger.
Exercise and Physical Therapy After a Falls Risk Assessment
Strength and balance training is the most evidence-supported single intervention for community-dwelling older adults flagged by a falls risk assessment. The Otago Exercise Programme and Tai Chi for Arthritis both show statistically significant fall reductions in randomized trials.
The key is sustained engagement across weeks and months, not a single physical therapy session bolted onto discharge planning.
Hospital inpatient settings shift the emphasis to progressive mobility programs that safely increase ambulation during admission.
Deconditioning is itself a fall risk factor on the day of discharge and across the weeks that follow. Bedside falls risk assessment that excludes mobility planning trades short-stay safety for post-discharge fall risk.
Medication Review and Deprescribing After a Falls Risk Assessment
A pharmacist-led medication review identifies fall-risk drugs and either discontinues, substitutes, or dose-reduces them where clinically appropriate.
Deprescribing, the systematic reduction of medication burden when risks outweigh benefits, is now a formalized practice in US geriatric care. The AGS Beers Criteria provides the working reference list of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults.
Environmental Modification Driven by a Falls Risk Assessment
Environmental modifications attack the extrinsic risk factors a falls risk assessment surfaces.
Standard interventions include installing grab bars in bathrooms and stairways, improving lighting in hallways and bedrooms, removing loose rugs and pathway clutter, adjusting bed and toilet heights for safer transfers, and providing non-slip footwear and appropriate assistive devices. Hospital settings add bed alarms, low-bed protocols, and floor mats for the highest-risk patients.
Vision and Sensory Interventions After a Falls Risk Assessment
Uncorrected vision impairment is a modifiable fall risk factor that mature falls risk assessment programs catch and route to ophthalmology.
Vision assessment with corrective lens prescription reduces fall risk by roughly 14 percent in pooled estimates. Cataract surgery reduces falls in patients with significant visual impairment, with second-eye surgery producing larger effects than the first.
Multidisciplinary Team Roles in Falls Risk Assessment
Falls prevention does not belong to any single clinical discipline. The most effective US programs coordinate a team where each member contributes specific expertise to a shared care plan. Without that coordination, a high-quality assessment can sit unused because no one owns the intervention sequence the score triggers.
| Role | Falls risk assessment contribution | Output that drives the care plan |
| Physician / APP | Manages medical conditions; leads medication optimization | Deprescribing decisions; specialty referrals (cardiology, ophthalmology) |
| Nursing staff | Conducts bedside falls risk assessment on admission and after status change | Care plan tier; bed alarm, supervision level, scheduled rounding |
| Physical therapist | Evaluates gait, strength, balance; designs exercise program | Otago / Tai Chi prescription; ambulation supervision tier |
| Occupational therapist | Assesses functional activities and home environment | Home safety evaluation; ADL modifications; equipment recommendations |
| Pharmacist | Reviews medication list for fall-risk drugs (Beers Criteria) | Deprescribing recommendations; substitution or dose adjustment plan |
| Social worker | Addresses adherence barriers, equipment access, caregiver support | Resource navigation; caregiver education; discharge coordination |
Patient Engagement Inside the Falls Risk Assessment Workflow
Patient and caregiver engagement is not optional in any high-performing US falls program. Patients who understand their own fall risk factors and actively participate in their care plan adhere to preventive measures at meaningfully higher rates.
Shared decision-making, explaining why a sedative is being tapered or why an exercise program matters, produces better adherence than issued instructions alone.
The Three Lines Model Applied to Falls Risk Assessment
For risk managers overseeing falls programs, the multidisciplinary structure maps onto the three lines of defense model. Clinical staff on the unit form the first line, owning the assessment and the bedside intervention.
The falls prevention committee and risk management function form the second line, providing oversight, data analysis, and policy guidance. Internal audit and quality improvement form the third line, evaluating program effectiveness and compliance.
How Often a Falls Risk Assessment Should Be Conducted
Reassessment frequency should reflect the instability of the patient’s risk profile, not administrative convenience.
Two patients with the same admission score can move in opposite directions inside a week, and the program that catches the divergence catches the prevented fall. US guidance from The Joint Commission, CMS, and the USPSTF converges on the same operating rule: reassess at scheduled intervals and after any trigger event.
Falls Risk Assessment Cadence in Acute Hospital Settings
Joint Commission expectations and most US hospital policies require an initial falls risk assessment on admission, reassessment after any fall, reassessment after any significant clinical status change, and reassessment when the patient transitions between care settings or units.
Many programs also schedule daily reassessment for patients flagged at high risk, treating the daily check as a unit-level control rather than a documentation step.
Falls Risk Assessment Cadence in Primary Care and Long-Term Care
In primary care, the USPSTF 2018 recommendation supports exercise interventions for community-dwelling adults over 65 at increased risk. CMS requires fall risk assessment on admission to skilled nursing facilities, quarterly, and after any significant change.
These triggers sit inside the how often should risk assessments be conducted rhythm clinical leaders already manage.
Financial and Regulatory Stakes of Falls Risk Assessment
For US healthcare executives and clinical risk managers, the financial case for disciplined falls risk assessment is direct.
CMS’s non-payment policy for preventable falls means those care costs are uncompensated, and Hospital Compare and Care Compare publish the metrics publicly. Poor performance shapes reputation, performance-based payment contracts, and value-based care arrangements simultaneously.
CMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions and Falls Risk Assessment
CMS’s Hospital-Acquired Conditions list treats certain in-hospital fall injuries as preventable and refuses incremental reimbursement. The categorization carries through to the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, which reduces payments for facilities in the worst-performing quartile by 1 percent. Falls risk assessment is the upstream control that determines which quartile the facility ends up in.
Joint Commission Survey Expectations on Falls Risk Assessment
Joint Commission surveyors look for evidence that the falls risk assessment was actually performed, scored, documented, and acted upon.
The most common finding in fall-related citations is a policy-practice gap, where the written policy says one thing and the chart shows another. Track completion rates monthly and treat every gap as a process failure rather than a documentation failure.
Common Falls Risk Assessment Questions Practitioners Ask
Six questions surface in every US risk-program review of falls risk assessment design. The answers below reflect CDC STEADI, AGS, USPSTF, Joint Commission, CMS, and ISO 31000:2018 guidance current to May 2026, plus the operational patterns of US hospitals and ambulatory practices running mature programs.
What is the simplest definition of falls risk assessment?
A falls risk assessment is the structured clinical evaluation that quantifies how likely a patient is to fall and maps the risk profile to specific preventive interventions.
The CDC, The Joint Commission, and the American Geriatrics Society all anchor on this definition. Without quantified assessment, fall prevention collapses into generic precautions that consistently underperform multifactorial programs in randomized trials.
Which falls risk assessment tool is best for US hospital inpatients?
Morse Fall Scale and Hendrich II Fall Risk Model dominate US hospital inpatient practice. Morse Fall Scale pools at roughly 78 percent sensitivity and 83 percent specificity, runs in three minutes at the bedside, and integrates cleanly into Epic and Cerner workflows.
Hendrich II adds specific medication and elimination items that some facilities prefer for skilled nursing transitions. Pick one and apply it consistently.
How often should a falls risk assessment be repeated?
In US acute hospitals, repeat the falls risk assessment on admission, after any fall, after any clinical status change, after any medication change, and at every care setting transition.
In skilled nursing facilities, repeat on admission, quarterly, and after significant change. In primary care, repeat annually for adults over 65, with more frequent reassessment after a medication change, surgery, or new diagnosis affecting mobility or cognition.
Does Medicare cover falls risk assessment in primary care?
Yes. Medicare covers falls risk assessment as part of the Annual Wellness Visit and supports the STEADI three-question screen and follow-up battery under preventive services.
Medicare Advantage plans frequently extend coverage to home safety evaluation and physical therapy referrals triggered by a positive screen. Practices that bill the AWV and document the falls risk assessment capture the visit code without additional administrative burden.
How does falls risk assessment differ from a general health assessment?
A general health assessment covers broad health status across organ systems. A falls risk assessment narrows the lens to the specific factors that drive fall probability: gait, balance, cognition, vision, medications, prior fall history, and environment.
The two assessments overlap but the falls instrument is engineered to predict a single outcome and trigger a targeted intervention bundle, which is why generic screening cannot substitute for it.
What standards govern falls risk assessment in the United States?
Five anchors structure US falls risk assessment practice: The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals for accredited hospitals; CMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions and SNF MDS requirements for federal reimbursement;
CDC STEADI for ambulatory care; the American Geriatrics Society guideline for clinical content; and ISO 31000:2018 for the broader risk framework. Mature US programs reference all five and document the crosswalk in the methodology section of the falls program manual.
Where Programs Stall on Falls Risk Assessment
Six failure patterns recur across US programs trying to stand up or refresh falls risk assessment. Each one has a recognizable footprint and a fix mature programs already use.
The COSO ERM framework treats every one of these failures as a control deficiency at the governance layer. Recognize the patterns in your own register before a Joint Commission surveyor or a plaintiff attorney does.
| Pitfall | Root cause | Remedy |
| Admission assessment done, follow-up never repeated | Unit nurses treat the score as a one-time intake item | Build mandatory reassessment triggers into the EHR after every fall, status change, and medication change. Audit completion monthly. |
| High-risk score not linked to a specific care plan tier | Falls program separates assessment from intervention sequence | Map every score band to a defined intervention bundle (bed alarm, rounding cadence, ambulation supervision). No score without a plan. |
| Medication review skipped or done by nursing only | Pharmacist coverage tight, time constrained | Embed Beers Criteria review into the pharmacist’s daily workflow for all high-risk patients. Track deprescribing as a falls metric. |
| Environmental hazards documented but not remediated | OT recommendation goes to chart, not to facilities team | Route every environmental finding through a 48-hour facilities work order with closure tracked in the falls program dashboard. |
| Hospital falls drop, post-discharge falls rise | Inpatient program excludes mobility and home safety planning | Add OT home safety evaluation to discharge planning for every high-risk patient. Track 30-day post-discharge fall data. |
| Single tool used inconsistently across units | No central governance of falls risk assessment methodology | Standardize on one validated tool by setting. Run inter-rater reliability checks quarterly. Reject local variants. |
Looking Ahead: Falls Risk Assessment for 2026-2028
Three forces will reshape falls risk assessment across US healthcare over the next two years. The first is AI-augmented bedside screening. Cerner, Epic, and several startups have piloted machine-learning models that pull EHR signals to refine fall-risk predictions in real time.
Expect Joint Commission surveyors to accept AI-derived scores as long as the underlying training data, validation cohort, and uncertainty bounds are documented in the falls program manual.
Wearables and continuous gait monitoring are the second force. The FDA cleared several digital health products for fall risk in 2023 and 2024, and Medicare Advantage plans have begun reimbursing for select monitoring devices in community-dwelling older adults. Falls risk assessment is shifting from a point-in-time chart entry toward continuous risk signal capture, which changes the cadence question entirely.
Value-based care contracts are the third force. ACOs and Medicare Advantage plans now negotiate quality-bonus payments tied to falls metrics, and CMS Care Compare makes the data public.
Hospitals and ambulatory practices with high-performing falls risk assessment programs capture incremental revenue, not just avoid penalties. The convergence of risk oversight with strategic planning piece traces this shift in adjacent risk domains.
Healthcare systems that treat falls risk assessment as a dynamic process rather than a one-time intake form will outpace those that treat it as a compliance form.
The discipline rewards rigor: documented assessment methodology, transparent scoring, named owners for each intervention, and scheduled reassessment. The starting point is always the assessment. You cannot prevent a fall you have not measured.
Working with Risk Publishing on Falls Risk Assessment Programs
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Chris Ekai is a Risk Management expert with over 10 years of experience in the field. He has a Master’s(MSc) degree in Risk Management from University of Portsmouth and is a CPA and Finance professional. He currently works as a Content Manager at Risk Publishing, writing about Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity Management and Project Management.