Free Project Risk Templates: Assessments, Analysis, Registers, and Dashboards

Download Project Risk Assessment Template
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Identify and assess project risk with this detailed assessment template. By using the template, project managers can chart the severity, likelihood, and levels of project risks, both before and after mitigation. This template also features a color-coded Risk Rating Key to help you determine acceptable risk levels for project activity to continue. 

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Download Sample Project Risk Assessment Template
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Refer to the concise and informative sample information in this project risk assessment template to guide you in assessing project risk. This template lists financial, legal, and contractual risks, as well as risks to reputation or customer relations. Each risk assessment form includes sample descriptions for risk impact and probability levels that you can use as a guide when assessing your own project risks.

Download Project Risk Log Template
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Document project risk quickly and accurately with this project risk log template. By using this template, project managers can record risk owners and identification dates, categorize risk types, and rate risk levels in one comprehensive document. Project managers can also add columns to create a more detailed record for mitigation planning.

Download Project Risk Management Plan Template
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Use this detailed, intuitive, and customizable risk management plan template to categorize and propose mitigation actions, identify risk owners, and outline their responsibilities. Project managers can use this template to summarize risk analysis, mitigation, review, and reporting processes in clearly defined sections to keep a project on track.  

For help finding the risk management plan best suited for your project, see one of these free risk management plan templates.

Download Project Risk Audit Template
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Identify project risks and determine the severity and likelihood of each risk with this project risk audit template. Project managers can use audit data to categorize tasks as improbable, possible, or probable, and to rank severity from acceptable to intolerable. This risk audit template allows project managers to document the information needed in order to draft an effective risk mitigation plan.

Download Project Risk Dashboard Template
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Project managers can use this project risk dashboard template to understand risk level assessments for project tasks at a glance. This dashboard template features text that is color-coded for risk levels and a matching pie chart that displays project risk status. This comprehensive dashboard template allows project managers to understand risk status and act quickly to prioritize mitigation for high-risk tasks.

Download Project Risk Assessment Matrix Template
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Use this risk assessment matrix template with color-coded risk ratings to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable risks. Project managers can categorize risks as either improbable, possible, or probable and to rank their severity from low to extreme. Once project managers have calculated the severity and likelihood of a risk, they can place it on the risk assessment matrix. Use this template as a tool for sharing risk data quickly and keeping mitigation planning on schedule.

Download Project Risk Register Template
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This project risk register template is a spreadsheet tool that project managers can use to plan mitigation efforts in real time. The spreadsheet features shaded columns for highlighting essential details such as registration creation and closure dates, risk identification dates, and risk ratings. Fill out the template and add rows for more risks to keep risk data and mitigation efforts up to date. 

To learn more about risk registers and find the template that meets your project’s specific needs, download one of these free risk register templates.

Download Project Risk Matrix Template
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This project risk matrix template includes space to record the severity, likelihood, and level of each project risk, both before and after mitigation. By using this one-page, easy-to-use template, project managers can quickly gain a high-level understanding of project risk levels. A Mitigations, Warnings, and Remedies section provides project managers and risk owners with ample space to record important information and communicate priorities quickly. This template's reference ID column also organizes tasks for better tracking and efficiency.

Download Construction Project Risk Assessment Template
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Contractors and project managers can use this risk assessment template when analyzing and calculating risk levels for a construction project. This template includes numbered probability and impact keys, as well as a color-coded legend for six risk levels that help managers conduct precise risk assessments. With this template, project managers and risk owners can easily oversee current control actions that will inform their risk mitigation planning.

Download Project Risk Assessment Questionnaire Template
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Begin assessing project risk with simple yes-or-no questions in this risk assessment questionnaire template. Project managers can refer to sample questions in categories such as policies, processes, and data security to help as they write their own project risk assessment questions. A spacious Notes column provides an area for additional elaboration when a simple yes-or-no answer is not enough.

Download Project Risk Response Matrix Plan Template
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The risk response matrix plan template provides space for project managers and risk owners to list the response objective and to identify the potential impact and likelihood of each project risk. By using this form, project managers can ensure that they have the necessary information to guide risk response planning. Describing contingencies and triggers in this fillable matrix is an efficient way to craft a detailed and nuanced risk response plan.

A project risk template is a tool that helps project managers identify and evaluate risks associated with project tasks. Project managers use these templates to assess risks,  inform mitigation planning, and ensure that projects are on time and within budget. 

Project risk templates use severity and likelihood data to determine risk levels that range from low and acceptable to extreme and intolerable. Depending on the level of risk that is acceptable for a given project, high severity or likelihood might require project managers to stop a task or to introduce mitigation efforts. Project managers use these templates to inform project risk management planning.

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