ISO 31000:2009 Checklist
Risk Management Principals
4.0 Framework
4.1 Mandate & Commitment
Have you:
- Defined and endorsed a risk management policy
- Determined risk performance indicators
- Aligned risk objectives and indicators to organizational objectives and indicators
- Ensured legal and regulatory compliance
4.2 Design Framework
Organisation & its Context
In designing your risk framework have you:
- Evaluated external context
- Evaluated internal context
Risk Policy
Does your policy include:
- Rationale for managing risk
- Accountabilities
- How conflict of interest is dealt with
- Links between organizations objectives and risk policy
- Commitment to resource risk management
- How risk performance managed, measured and reported
- Commitment to review and improve the policy
Accountability
Have you established accountability, authority and competence for managing risk.
Do you:
- Identify risk owners
- Identify responsibility for our framework
- Identify risk responsibilities
- Establish performance measures and reporting and escalation processes
- Ensure appropriate levels of recognition
Integration into Organisation Processes
Is risk management embedded into your practices and processes in a way that is relevant, effective and efficient?
Internal Communicating & Reporting
Have you established internal communication and reporting mechanisms for risk management?
Resources
Have you allocated appropriate resources for risk management? Including a consideration of:
- People
- Organizational processes, methods and tools
- Documented processes and procedures
- Information and knowledge management systems
- Training
External Communication & reporting
Have you determined and implemented how you will communicate with external stakeholders?
4.3 Implementing Risk Management Framework
In implementing your framework can you show you have:
- Applied risk management policy to organizational processes
- Complied with legal and regulatory requirements
- Ensured decision making is aligned with risk management
- processes
- Held information and training sessions
- Communicated and consulted with stakeholders
4.4 Monitoring & Review
Do you:
- Measure risk management performance against indicators
- Measure progress against risk management plans
- Review whether the framework and policy are still appropriate
- Report on risk
- Review the effectiveness of the framework
4.5 Continual Improvement
Do you continually improve the risk policy, framework, plans?
5.0 Process
5.1 General
Is the risk management process:
- An integral part of management
- Embedded in culture and practices
- Tailored to your organisation
5.2 Communication & Consultation
Can you demonstrate communication and consultation with external and internal stakeholders at all stages of the risk management process?
5.3 Establishing Context
Can you demonstrate you have considered internal and external context, factors and how they relate to the scope of the particular risk management process?
5.2 Defining Risk Criteria
Have you defined the criteria to be used to evaluate the significance of risk?
5.6 Risk Assessment
Risk Identification
Have you identified sources of risk, areas of impact and their causes and potential consequences?
Have you applied risk identification tools and techniques?
Do you use people with appropriate knowledge for risk identification?
Risk Identification
Do you have processes to consider causes and sources of risks, their consequences and the likelihood of the consequences to occur?
Risk Evaluation
Do you compare the level of risk found during analysis process (5.4.3) to you risk criteria to determine the need for treatment or further analysis?
5.7 Risk Treatment
Selection of Risk Treatment Options
Do you have processes for selecting treatment options that consider stakeholders, legal, regulatory and context?
Do you have processes to identify new risks introduced through treatment?
Does the treatment plan identify priority order for risk treatments?
Preparing & Implementing Risk Treatment Plans
Do you document how your risk treatment will be implemented?
Do you include:
- Reasons for selection and expected benefits
- Responsibilities
- Proposed actions
- Resource requirements
- Performance measures
- Reporting and monitoring requirements
- Timing
5.8 Monitoring & Review
Have you included regular checks or surveillance in your risk processes at all levels?
Have you defined responsibilities for monitoring and review?
Do you check progress of risk treatment plans?
Do you report results of monitor and review?
5.9 Recording
Are your processes traceable?
Have you retained suitable records?
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What is ISO 31000 Risk Management?
Some organisations are exposed to more risks than others due to the nature of their business or their business environment. Some organisations are willing to accept more risk than others because with more risk we expect more return.
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