1-366 The disciplines of FSA have the potential to prevent retrospective, "knee-jerk" reactions to maritime casualties and, through the cost benefit analysis that is an inherent part of the process, to direct scarce, or at lease, finite resources to the areas in which they can be most beneficial. There is a danger, however, that FSA will become a euphemism for the application of basic risk management techniques and unnecessarily confuse the operational manager and complicate its application. A great deal of risk management is the structured application if common sense; the challenge is to build it into the planning process.