Risk assessment
A documented evaluation of foreseeable harms, likelihood, impact, and controls.
What Risk assessment does not show
It is a decision aid rather than proof that residual risk is acceptable.
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Questions about Risk assessment
What is Risk assessment?
A documented evaluation of foreseeable harms, likelihood, impact, and controls.
What does Risk assessment not show or guarantee?
It is a decision aid rather than proof that residual risk is acceptable.
Which area of the glossary does Risk assessment belong to?
Governance and rights: Who may use content for what: rights reservations, opt-outs, licences, model documentation and the accountability vocabulary around them.
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