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Risk register

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˈrɪsk ˌredʒɪstər/nounCommon term

In project management, risk register means: A document or table that lists a project's risks, with details such as their likelihood, impact, owner and the actions planned to deal with them.

In Turkish: risk kaydı, risk kütüğü, risk listesi

How it is used

Kept up to date by the project manager and reviewed in regular meetings. Risks are added to, updated in and closed in the risk register. Some teams keep it inside a wider RAID log.

Example sentences

  1. Please add the currency risk to the risk register and assign it to the finance lead.

  2. We review the top five items in the risk register at every steering meeting.

Common collocations

  • update the risk register
  • add to the risk register
  • review the risk register
  • risk register template
  • riskAn uncertain event that has not happened yet but could affect the project's time, cost, quality or scope if it does.
  • RAID logA single document or table where a project tracks its Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, each with an owner and a status.
  • mitigateTo take action that makes a risk less likely to happen, or makes its effect smaller if it does happen.
  • assumptionSomething the team accepts as true for planning purposes without full proof, for example that a supplier will deliver on time or that users will be available for testing.

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