"Slope Safety" is a long-term programme of substained effort on all fronts to achieve the quickest possible reduction in landslide risk to the community in Hong Kong.The use of Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) technique in evaluating and managing landslide risk is gradually becoming recognized by the geotechnical practitioners in Hong Kong. This has led to a number of developments and applications of the technique to landslide problems in recent years. This web page provides a brief summary of the basic risk concepts and some pilot applications of QRA to geotechnical problems in Hong Kong. The creation of this web page is to facilitate the promulgation of pilot development work and the findings of these studies.

Using the technique of QRA, it was shown that the overall landslide risk arising from old substandard man-made slopes in Hong Kong had been reduced to less than 50% of the 1977 level by 2000, through the Government's Landslip Preventive Measures (LPM) Programme.