Risk Assessment Form
Record a risk assessment you have carried out yourself, in a layout that captures the part people forget: who is doing the further action, by when, and when it gets reviewed.
IN-02 2 pages
Office and committee · OC-05
Risk Register
A free printable risk register — risk, cause, likelihood and impact in your own scale, existing controls, further action, owner and review date.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Hold the risks a group has identified in one place, with the controls that already exist recorded alongside them rather than assumed.
Who it is for
Charities, committees, small businesses, event organisers, project teams and trustees.
How to use it
- Write down the scale you are using before you score anything.
- Describe the risk as what could happen and to whom, not as a one-word topic.
- Fill in the controls already in place first — most of the work is usually done.
- Give every further action an owner and a review date.
- Review the register on a fixed cycle, and date it when you do.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: A register of the risks a group has identified, what is already being done about each, and who is watching it.
Your scale, written down first. No scoring matrix is printed here and no scale is suggested. Likelihood and impact scales belong to the organisation using them, and a scale borrowed from a stranger produces numbers nobody can explain. Write yours in the box below and the columns will mean something.
Write-on lines: Organisation or project · Register started · Reviewed on · The scale being used, in your own words — L is likelihood, I is impact
Table, 11 rows: Ref · Risk — what could happen, and to whom · Cause · L · I · Controls already in place · Further action · Owner · Review
Questions
Why is there no likelihood-and-impact matrix printed on it?
Because the scale belongs to the organisation using it. A three-by-three grid borrowed from a stranger produces numbers nobody in the room can explain, and an unexplainable number is worse than no number. Write your scale in the box and the columns mean something.
Is a risk register a legal requirement?
For some kinds of organisation in some countries, something like it is. For most it is not. This sheet takes no position — check what applies to you.
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