A risk register is a structured record maintained by human practice that catalogues identified risks with their probability, impact assessment, assigned owners, and planned responses. Its persistence mechanism is the documented record kept current through organizational procedures and regular review cycles. [formal: registrum periculorum | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.42]
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risk-register
A risk register is a structured record maintained by human practice that catalogues identified risks with their probability, impact assessment, assigned owners, and planned responses. Its persistence mechanism is the documented record kept…
Definition
Why it is in scope
The human-made documented ledger that records identified risks, their likelihood, impact, assigned owners, and planned response strategies. Built to persist as a living artifact in project management, operational risk, and safety engineering that ensures risks are tracked, owned, and addressed throughout the lifecycle of a system or project.
Names and aliases
- risk-registeren · CANONICAL
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- cms7xqbkh007oh6s8quqq0022DEPENDS_ON →
A risk-register depends on failure-mode: remove failure-modes and the risk-register loses its primary subject matter — it cannot function as a ledger of risks without the concept of how things can fail. Per the removal test (Law 8), X (risk-register) stops operating when Y (failure-mode) is removed.
- cms84mvqm00uuh6s88cc3aflcSERVES →
The risk register is maintained for the sake of risk analysis — its designed purpose is to centralize risk information so that risk analysis can be systematic and repeatable. Servant (risk-register) points at master (risk-analysis). Per Law 8d.
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- cms8l66w1018673fky8kw6zmd← INSTANCE_OF
A hazard-log is a specific type of risk-register: both are structured records of identified threats, but the hazard-log narrows the scope to hazards specifically (dangers that could cause harm) while a risk-register covers all risk categories (financial, operational, strategic, etc.). Pinning INSTANCE_OF against risk-register (the nearest kind) follows Law 11e.
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- Jul 30, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC
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