Assessments

The first thing to do in Riskrunner, is to create an assessment. An assessment is a way to group your risks together in a logical way. For example, you can create an assessment for a project, an asset or a site. The exact way to group your risks depends on your organisation and how you want to use Riskrunner.

See also

Read more about why we use the term assessment here.

Adding an assessment

When you click on Assessments in the main menu, this is what you’ll see:

Assessments overview

To add a new assessment, click Add which will bring up an editor:

Assessments overview

When you create an assessment, it’s a good idea to describe the scope and purpose of what you’re assessing, and who the intended audience is. That will make it easier to decide how to do the assessment regarding the risks to include, what type of language to use and the required level of detail.

See also

The description box where you describe the scope and purpose is a richtext editor, which you can learn more about here

If you click save, you have a new assessment that you can edit or delete. The next step would be to add a hazard or review.

Assessments overview

Assessment templates

When creating an assessment, you can choose a template to setup it up at your convinience.

Turn off builtin templates

There are two types of templates available:

Builtin templates

These are predefined templates designed to help you get started quickly:

  • Design

  • Performance

  • Build

  • Demonstration : Already setup with Hazard, Top event, barrier, consequence to give you a nice example to explore.

You can disable these templates in your personal settings by toggling off the “Show Built-in Templates” option.

Turn off builtin templates

Company templates

When adding an assessment you can choose to make a template out of it. This new template assessment will then appear when adding an assessment. If you choose it, the assessment will be initialise with all the data inside the template assessement, giving you a way to setup assessement for your company.

Warning

History won’t be kept, only hazards, definitions, fields in their current state. Any changes in current active review won’t be taking into account.