Risk Management Plan

Project Risk Management Plan

The document that defines how risk actually gets managed — not a register, but the rules the register runs on.

Most projects have a risk register and no agreement on what the scores mean, who escalates what, or when risk gets reviewed. This plan settles all of it, in seventeen pre-built tables you fill in and issue.

What's inside

• Risk context, objectives and appetite, including zero-tolerance areas
• Roles and governance — who owns, who reviews, who escalates
• The risk process and its cadence
• Likelihood and consequence criteria, defined so a "4" means the same thing to everyone
• Rating, escalation and treatment rules
• Reporting and assurance arrangements
• Interfaces with enterprise, operational and supplier risk processes

How you use it

Open it, work through the bracketed prompts, delete the guidance, issue it. Every table is already built — you are filling in decisions, not formatting a document.

Pairs with the Risk Management Plan Dashboard

This document sets the rules. The Risk Management Plan Dashboard (Excel, A$19) is where you run them day to day — the register itself, with scoring, ratings, treatment tracking and live exposure reporting calculated for you. The criteria you define in this plan are exactly the ones you set up in the dashboard. Buy the plan to agree how risk will be managed; add the dashboard to manage it.

Editable Word document. No macros, no subscription. Built in Australia from more than twenty years of program delivery experience. Instant download, yours to keep, use it on as many projects as you like.