Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment Framework
This framework contains the requirements for assessing the risk of sourcing from supply areas. Based on FSC-PRO-60-006b Risk Assessment Framework which outlines how standard developers are to develop and revise risk assessments for a geographical area. This framework covers 76 indicators to assess risks based on compliance with applicable legislation and even going beyond to conform with global sustainability best practices. These indicators cover the assessment of key topics such as existence of child labor, identification and protection of HCVs, degradation, conversion, respect of human rights and more. In addition, this framework includes complementary annexes containing template for assessment, list of recommended sources of information, and guidance material.
Risk Assessment Template
The template provided in Annex 4 of the Risk Assessment Framework provides information on how to conduct a risk assessments through the following key steps:
Collect information based on each indicator, considering scale of assessment, type of risk, applicable legislation, relevant to the area under assessment.
Assessment of information to assess and then designate risk as either negligible or non-negligible.
Where non-negligible risk is identified, provide mitigation measures with verifiers per indicator.
How to use
When there is an FSC Risk Assessment use the results and identify the designation of risk per indicator considering scale and type of risk. Where there is a non-negligible risk designation, check the proposed mitigation measures within the risk assessment.
Coming soon: Risk Assessment Library for FSC users for easy access for available regions and countries to see and understand the assessment of risk within that area and proposed mitigation measures.
Coming soon: For forest management users they can instead use a simplified risk assessment template currently being developed.
Where an FSC Risk Assessment doesn’t exist organizations can develop an extended company risk assessment using existing template provided by FSC available as established in FSC-PRO-60-006b.