Operations
Premises risk assessment
Formal definition
Premises risk assessment is a charity operations term for identifying, logging, and resolving operational risks before they become major service failures.
What this actually means for you
For day-to-day delivery, Premises risk assessment should be documented clearly and applied consistently; set severity definitions and escalation SLAs so teams respond proportionately and quickly.
Example: During a planned change window, teams apply Premises risk assessment as follows: a high-severity incident triggers a same-day response call with owners, mitigations, and review deadlines. They then update evidence logs, findings summaries, and remediation actions for the next cycle.
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