Making complex risks manageable, defensible, and transparent

Risk-based Frameworks

Making complex risks manageable, defensible, and transparent
Making complex risks manageable, defensible, and transparent

Risk-based frameworks ensure decisions are systematic, defensible, and proportionate. Institutionalizing these practices improves organizational integrity, efficiency, and resilience. A risk-based framework provides the structure and processes that are necessary for effective decision-making. Systematic and consistent risk decision-making that supports all the relevant scientific evaluations and stakeholder considerations ensures that risk decisions can stand up to scrutiny, and ultimately makes risk-based decision-making more efficient.

How RSI delivers Risk-based Frameworks

RSI develops tailored, science-based frameworks that support the design and implementation of repeatable, transparent, and scalable risk practices. These frameworks align with regulatory standards, governance obligations, and practical constraints. In collaboration with clients, RSI develops structured processes for the conduct of decision-making elements that are key to the achievement of essential elements of a risk-based approach to regulatory decision-making.

Why RSI is trusted to deliver

RSI has assisted numerous organizations with designing structures for risk and safety decision elements like risk tolerabilty, including recommending appropriate models to adopt, reviewing assessments and analyses to be conducted as part of the process, and guidelines for determining the application of risk thresholds. RSI has also helped clients develop structured evaluation criteria that are central to the defensible allocation of regulatory resources and rigor proportionate to risk posed. This experience includes applications in consumer products, health products, blood safety, transportation, technical safety authorities , and others.

Understanding, managing, and communicating risk

Understanding risk
Managing risk
Communicating risk
Making complex risks manageable, defensible, and transparent

Why this image?

Risk-based frameworks are like the structural skeleton of a large facility—designed not just to support weight, but to anticipate stress, ensure stability, and guide safe growth. The image of an expansive metal framework under construction, alongside a scissor lift, captures the essence of building with foresight. Every joint and elevation reflects deliberate planning grounded in risk-informed decisions. RSI develops and applies such frameworks to help organizations build resilient systems—designed from the ground up to perform reliably under pressure and uncertainty.