Outputs
The outputs are an updated bias profile and an initial or updated risk and impact assessment.
What clause 8.3 asks
Two things come out: a new profile version and the risk review itself, either the first or a revision. The review holds two lists of risks, the measures and the reason for them, the signatures and the owner's acceptance. The profile and the review point to each other, so a reader can move from a risk to its evidence and back.
Why it matters
The output is not a risk score. It is a structured assessment that a reader can follow from a risk to an inventory to a mitigation to an acceptance. The clause requires both the profile update and the assessment because they serve different purposes: the profile is the through-life record, and the assessment is the decision document for the accountable position. A team that produces only a score has neither.
What good looks like
Produce the assessment in a fixed structure: scope, inputs and versions, metrics, the two inventories, the mitigations, the residual risk, the signatures and the acceptance. Update the profile in the same pass and cross-link the entries. Then give the assessment to the owner for formal acceptance. Do not close the output until the acceptance is recorded.
Evidence an assessor asks for
The assessor will follow one risk from the inventory to the mitigation to the residual acceptance. A break in that chain is the finding.
- Risk and impact assessment The structured document, initial or updated, with both inventories
- Profile update The profile entries linked to the assessment
- Residual risk record The risks that remain after mitigation, with the accepted tolerance
- Acceptance record The owner's formal acceptance, dated and signed
Where it commonly fails
- The output is a single risk score
- The profile is not updated
- The assessment has no owner acceptance
What to do before publication
Use one structure for every assessment. A consistent structure makes the chain visible and saves time at each iteration.