Customise your risk matrix
Set the matrix your assessors score on — labels, bands and severity floors — once, for the whole organisation.
4 min read · Last reviewed 18 August 2026
Open the matrix editor
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Open Settings → Risk matrix — administrator territory, because the matrix is organisation-wide by design.
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Review the default 5×5: likelihood and severity labels, and the band each cell falls into.
Make it yours — within the guardrails
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Rename likelihood and severity levels into your organisation’s vocabulary.
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Adjust which cells fall into which band, where your scheme genuinely differs.
Banding is shared: every assessment in the workspace scores on this one matrix, so two assessors cannot produce different colours for the same score.
Severity floors hold: the highest severities cannot be banded down to trivial, whatever the likelihood — the matrix will not accept it.
Note: Existing assessments keep their published versions untouched; the matrix governs how new scoring reads.
When to change it
Match an existing corporate scheme when you arrive with one — assessors should not translate in their heads.
Otherwise, the default is a sound HSE-style matrix; the best matrix is usually the one you stop discussing.