The method of documenting risk management in a selected public higher education institution of the Lódź Region

Nowadays in public institutions environment there are appearing new law restrictions, among them the Ministerial Public Finance Act, according to which public institutions have to lead the risk management process [Winiarska, Postuła 2012]. The aim of this process is to deliver information needed for decision making [Widener 2007] in those units who act their role through tasks in the area of public security [Wieteska-Rosiak 2011], health protection, education [Burnett 2007]. This is connected with building the awareness that risk, understood as all situations that may takes place in institutions with a specific probability [Asel 2009], as well, as situations, which are estimated to involve a threat [Rosa 1998]. It is combined with all the activities of the institution [Ochmańska, Jarząbek 2012]. In this article, the author presented the risk management process in purposefully selected public higher education institution [Huber 2009] from Łódź Region. The aim of the article is to present the process and supplement it with the author’s own study results. The research was funded from NCN fund (DEC-2012/07/N/HS4/00274).