| Zusammenfassung: | Turner (1994, p 149) noted that much of the confusion surrounding risk rested on a lack of clarity over "whether risk.. [is].. something that is taken or..something that can afflict us", that is, "[t]he blurred distinction..between risk as choice and risk as circumstance" (p 150). While decision-makers, and risk decision frameworks, are generally focused by "risk as choice", risk management is, of necessity, framed by the practicalities attaching to risky circumstances. Although the organizational literature on risk, disaster and safety has long concentrated on "risk as circumstance", the broader risk literature has tended to reflect "risk as choice" imperatives. Recently, however, the situationally specific criteria constituting the contingencies of circumstance have come under increasing scrutiny. This paper engages with and attempts to advance this agenda. Drawing upon a range of work, it is argued that embodied practices are fundamentally constitutive of "the contingencies of circumstance" and must, therefore, be attended to if these contingencies are to be successfully engaged and managed. This argument is applied to illuminate debates within the organizational literature on risk, disaster and safety and explored for its broader implications. Science is not about Truth but about Reliable Practices...Risk Assessment is basically a social contract, not a scientific one.
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