How risk is scored
Every risk in the platform is scored the same way — a severity multiplied by a likelihood, banded into a tier. Understanding this makes the rest of the platform obvious.
The calculation
Each consequence is given two values, and the score is their product:
score = severity level × likelihood levelOn a 5×5 matrix that yields scores from 1 to 25. The score then falls into a tier — Low, Medium or High — according to the bands your company configured.
| Tier | Default band | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Low | 1–4 | Acceptable risk within normal operations. |
| Medium | 5–12 | Mitigation strategies recommended. |
| High | 13–25 | Immediate management intervention required. |
The bands are configurable. The tier colours are yours too, and the platform never overrides them — it only decides how strongly to tint them so a matrix reads as a heat map.
Both scales must run in the same direction for the multiplication to mean anything: level 1 the least severe and least likely, level 5 the most. If likelihood is numbered the other way round, a severe and very likely event scores lower than a severe and very unlikely one. See Troubleshooting.
Initial and residual risk
Every consequence is scored twice, and the difference between the two is the point of the whole exercise.
| Score | Question it answers |
|---|---|
| Initial risk | How bad is this, and how likely, with the controls you already have? |
| Residual risk | How bad is this, and how likely, once the mitigations in this assessment are in place? |
The overview rolls this up across the fleet — how many risks were reduced, and how many high risks were eliminated. A residual score that is higher than the initial one is flagged, because it usually means a data entry error rather than a mitigation that made things worse.
The hierarchy
An assessment is a tree, and each level answers a different question.
| Level | Question |
|---|---|
| Job step | What are we doing, in sequence? |
| Hazard | What could go wrong during this step? |
| Consequence | If it does go wrong, what actually happens? |
| Mitigation | What are we doing about it? |
Scores attach to consequences, not to hazards — because "fire" is not a risk until you say what the fire does.