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Risk management
Hazards, risk scores before and after controls, verified controls and signed residual-risk acceptance.
Updated 11 Nov 20261 min read
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Project → Risk is the risk file, using your domain profile's method: a severity-probability matrix, HARA with ASIL, FHA with DAL, a risk graph with PLr, LOPA with SIL, FMEA with RPN or action priority, energy classes, or your organisation's own.
- 1Hazard draftedfrom a source, or written by hand
- 2Ratedbefore controls
- 3Controls linkedeach with a verification
- 4Rated againafter controls
- 5Residual risk accepteda separate signed decision
Working with hazards
- Hazards can be drafted from meetings and documents like other records, citing their source.
- For matrix methods, a heat map shows risks before and after controls; click a cell to filter.
- Results are computed from the factors you enter. Accepting a risk is always a signed human decision.
Residual-risk acceptance
Approving a hazard approves the analysis. Whether the residual risk is acceptable is a separate, signed decision on the approved revision: an approver who didn't write it decides acceptable, acceptable on benefit-risk grounds (with the written case) or not acceptable. It needs the initial and residual risk rated and an approved control. While a control has no passing verification result, the acceptance is provisional.
Profile rules
Your domain profile can add trace rules, for example "an approved failure mode needs a control", which raise alerts until they're met.
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