Analyzing the causal relationships between the events of the above classes we can easily identify possible risk identification patterns.
Such a pattern is shown in Fig. 2.
It reads as follows: if Event 1 occurs in the present state then Event 2 is likely to occur in the future state.
In other words, the materialization of a cause does not automatically imply the occurrence of the consequence.
It rather increases the likelihood of the consequence to materialize itself.