Risk Acceptance Tool

Document a risk acceptance

Sometimes a risk is knowingly accepted rather than fixed, and documenting that decision properly matters. This tool helps document a risk acceptance, so an accepted risk is a recorded, considered decision rather than an ignored gap.

Why documenting acceptance matters

Not every risk can or should be fixed, and formally accepting a risk, deciding to live with it, is a legitimate choice when the cost of fixing outweighs the risk. But the difference between an accepted risk and an ignored one is documentation: a proper acceptance records the risk, why it is accepted, who accepted it, and when it will be reviewed. That makes it a considered, accountable decision an auditor recognises, rather than a gap someone quietly overlooked. Documenting acceptances is how mature risk management handles the risks it chooses not to remediate, keeping them visible and owned.

A recorded decision

It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded, which matters when the input is your own code, configuration or security-sensitive data.

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