Why not have your risk escalated?

It is my unfortunate duty to translate some job descriptions into Indonesian. I was somewhat taken aback to find that one of the items is:

identify/escalate/resolve risk

At first I just thought somebody somewhere had got hold of the wrong word rather than actively seeking to employ Frank Spencer, but on googling "escalate risk" I found that in some contexts at least this does seem to be a desirable thing to do. Could anyone elucidate?

Bingley

Bingley