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What is Risk Manager?

Overview of the Risk Manager module — risk identification, assessment, controls, heat maps, and reviews.

Written by James Ross

Overview

Risk Manager is a dedicated module in ProcessPro for identifying, assessing, and managing organisational risks and their controls. It provides a structured framework for risk identification, rating, treatment, and ongoing review — separate from your process maps and workflows.

What Can You Do with Risk Manager?

  • Identify risks — create risk records with titles, descriptions, causes, and consequences

  • Assess risks — rate risks using likelihood × impact scoring for both inherent and residual risk

  • Define treatments — assign treatment strategies (Avoid, Reduce, Transfer, Accept)

  • Manage controls — create controls, link them to risks, track evidence and assurance

  • Monitor health — automated health indicators flag risks and controls that need attention

  • Track reviews — review cycles and assurance tasks keep your risk register current

  • Visualise risk — heat maps show your risk profile at a glance

  • Export data — download risk and control summaries as CSV

Accessing Risk Manager

Quick Steps

  • Risk Manager is accessible from the sidebar navigation

  • Click Risk Manager to open the module

  • The default landing page is the Overview tab with heat maps

Risk Manager Tabs

The module has four main tabs:

  • Overview — heat maps and metric cards showing your risk profile

  • Risks — risk summary data table with all risks for your company

  • Controls — control summary data table with all controls

  • Reviews & Assurance — task data table for review and assurance tasks

Permissions

Risk Manager access is controlled at the company level:

  • A company admin can enable or disable Risk Manager via a toggle in company settings

  • When enabled, the Risk Manager link appears in the sidebar for all users in that company

  • When disabled, the link is hidden and navigating to /risk returns a 403 Forbidden response

  • Each company's setting is independent — enabling it for one company does not affect others

Important: Risk Manager must be enabled before any risk or control data can be created. Contact your company admin if you don't see the option.

Risks and Controls Are Not Processes

Risks and controls are stored as distinct object types — they do not appear in the process list. You will not see them alongside your processes, value streams, or other process-type objects.

Further Information

For configuring risk categories and rating scales, see Configuring Risk Categories and Configuring Risk Rating Scales. For creating and managing risks, see Managing Risks.

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