The chart above was drawn by RFFlow user Eddie Green. He suggested we include Risk Charts in our Sample Charts category. We have created a template for drawing Risk Charts below. The link to the chart above is tolerance-matrix.flo.

The template above can be downloaded and modified to make your own risk assessment chart. The link to the chart above is risk-assessment-template.flo.

If you haven't already done so, first download the free trial version of RFFlow. It will allow you to open any chart and make modifications.

Once RFFlow is installed, you can open the above chart in RFFlow by clicking on risk-to-home.flo. For your chart, you may want to start with the template file risk-assessment-template.flo

• The chart above was drawn to determine the main risks to a home in Colorado where RFF Electronics is located.
• First brain-storm a list of all the things had can harm a house, like floods, tornadoes, fire, earthquakes, etc.
• For each item in your list, think about the probability of it happening and the severity of damage to your home. For example, an earthquake could cause extensive damage to a home, but the probability of an earthquake in Colorado is low. So you would write earthquake: probability is "unlikely," severity is "severe damage." This step is the most important. Think about each calamity, how likely is it to happen, and how much damage would it cause. Make sure you include all possible risks, although I bet no one included a pandemic when doing a risk assessment chart in 2019.
• Next, type earthquake into a white box and place the box in the appropriate place on the chart. You can put multiple items in the colored boxes and make all the boxes larger if you need to.
• When done, the boxes in the red are the ones that are the most risky. They will cause the most problems. Next are the orange boxes, then the blue.
• This chart uses words for the probability and severity. You can change those to better fit a chart for your industry.