Beth Pipe, FCIPD

This Precedent Risk audit can be used to collate and consider risk information that is available across your business. It encourages you to look across your business and think about where risks come from. It can be used to inform and populate a risk register through which you can categorise individual risks identified in this audit into strategic, operational, regulatory, financial, legal risks, etc and decide how best to control or mitigate each risk. You can use Precedent Risk questionnaire to gather information from across your business before completing this audit.

This Precedent Risk management policy is intended for general commercial organisations in the UK. It outlines the risks faced by a typical business and provides a set of actions to be taken to prevent the risk from occurring and reduce the impact of the risk should it happen. This Risk management policy helps you identify risks and implement a plan for managing them. There are various categories of risk, the majority of which should be included in your Risk management policy.

This Precedent Risk questionnaire is intended to create a framework for eliciting information about the risks presented by each department within your business. You could send it to the head of each department for completion or use it to structure an interview. The responses can be used to populate a risk register. You should also complete the questionnaire in relation to your own department and use this to identify compliance and legal risks.

This Precedent Risk register is a tool for collating and managing all your risk information in one place. To formulate an effective risk register, you must first identify the risks your organisation faces. It is also helpful to have an understanding of your organisation’s appetite for risk. The risk register enables you to categorise each risk the organisation faces, score each risk and then decide on your response to each risk, eg reject or accept and, if you accept, to control or mitigate the risk. There is a separate Precedent for a privacy risk register.

This Precedent Risk scorecard is also known as a risk matrix. It provides suggested scores and benchmarking for the component parts of risk, ie probability and impact. This allows you to quantify risk, using the formula risk = impact x probability.

This Precedent Root cause analysis (RCA)—blank can be used as a tool to analyse information to identify what is causing a problem or issue. It is often known as a fishbone diagram because it looks like the skeleton of a fish. It may also be called a cause and effect diagram.

This Precedent sample operational objectives, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used as a guide to help you implement initiatives and interventions from your absence management strategy.

This Precedent Service level agreement (SLA) contains commitments by the learning and development (L&D) team to the wider business and vice versa.

This Precedent simple check sheet can be used to record data as it happens The data can then be presented as tables or graphs to illustrate issues or problems. To work effectively, a check sheet must be as simple as possible for the end user to complete.

This Precedent appraisal training presentation is intended for law firms. It has been designed as an aid to help you train your staff on how to prepare for an appraisal and what to expect of the appraisal process.

This Precedent presentation is intended for law firms. It has been designed as an aid to help you train your managers on conducting appraisals.

This Checklist can be used as a tool to help you to manage change in your business. It provides a list of suggested steps to work through for each planned change along with a series of questions to consider for each one.

This Improving efficiency workflow, created for those working in-house, sets out the steps to take when improving a process within your legal department. It is based around the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) framework of continuous improvement and identifies Precedents you could use to support you with each step.

This flowchart sets out the steps to take when improving a process within your firm and identifies Precedents for each step.

This Risk management lifecycle flowchart suggests a process for identifying, assessing and managing risk across your business.