EasyRisk Manager is a web based qualitative risk management tool, developed by the Det Norske Veritas

Det Norske Veritas

Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas is a classification society organized as a foundation, with the objective of "Safeguarding life, property, and the environment". The organization's history goes back to 1864, when the foundation was established in Norway to inspect and evaluate the technical condition...

 (DNV).

The history of EasyRisk

1988 Initial project between Norwegian Armed Forces

Norwegian Armed Forces

The Norwegian Armed Forces numbers about 23,000 personnel, including civilian employees. According to mobilisation plans , the strength during full mobilisation would be approximately 83,000 combatant personnel. Norway has mandatory military service for men and voluntary service for women...

, Aérospatiale

Aérospatiale

Aérospatiale was a French aerospace manufacturer that built both civilian and military aircraft, rockets and satellites. It was originally known as Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale...

 and DNV.

1991 Version 1, initially called Criticality Management Tool. Single user windows application.

2001 Version 2, first web based version.

2005 Version 3,

The initial idea from 1988 was to look at technical risk assessment methods (HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA

FMECA

Failure mode, effects and criticality analysis is an extension of failure mode and effects analysis . FMEA is a bottom-up, inductiveanalytical method which may be performed at either the functional or piece-part level...

 etc), and see if these could be applied to projects and organisations. A concept now widely accepted.

Norwegian Defence use of EasyRisk

EasyRisk is defined as the risk management tool to be used by Norwegian Defence, as a natural part of long participance in the development.

Applied areas

EasyRisk allows to set up a business model of any number or breakdown structures, and relate risks to these.

The most used structures are

• Organisation structure
• Risk breakdown structure
  Risk breakdown structure
  Risk Breakdown Structure - A hierarchically organised depiction of the identified project risks arranged by category.- An Introduction to the Risk Breakdown Structure :...
  
   (RBS)
• Work breakdown structure
  Work breakdown structure
  A work breakdown structure , in project management and systems engineering, is a deliverable oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components. It defines and groups a project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project.A work...
  
   (WBS)

but others may be as important

• Key performance indicators
  Key performance indicators
  A performance indicator or key performance indicator is an industry jargon for a type of performance measurement.. KPIs are commonly used by an organization to evaluate its success or the success of a particular activity in which it is engaged...
  
  
• System breakdown structure
• Process structure
• Deliveries

These models may again be interrelated, building a complex business structure for risk analysis.

Issues, ncidents, actions, controls etc may as well be related to the same structure.