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Compliance Risk Assessment

What is Compliance Risk Assessment?

An evaluation of the risks associated with failing to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and standards.

Risk Management

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as compliance risk assessment. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on compliance risk assessment

Requirements naming compliance risk assessment across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

ISO 37301:20214 controls

The organization shall base the identification, analysis and evaluation of the compliance risks it faces on a compliance risk assessment.

iso-37301-2021::4.6 · Compliance risk assessment →
ISO 37302:20256 controls

Consistent with ISO 37301, the framework supplies an indicator for every component of the compliance management system; an indicator may rest on one requirement or on several taken together.

iso-37302-2025::5.3 · Evaluation indicator framework (Table 2) →
ISO 37303:20255 controls

The organization should relate the competence gaps found in 4.4.1 to its compliance risk assessment, so that a shortfall in competence in a function that faces a significant compliance risk is treated as a compliance risk in its own right and prioritised accor...

iso-37303-2025::4.4.2 · Risk assessment in relation to determination of status and needs of competence →

Category 5 - the right to a safe and healthy working environment - added to the Declaration on 10 June 2022 at the 110th International Labour Conference, recognising occupational safety and health (OSH) as a fundamental right alongside the other four categorie...

ILO-FPRW-Cat5-OSH-SafeHealthyEnvironment-C155-C187-2022Amendment · ILO Fundamental Category 5 - Safe and Healthy Working Environment (C155 + C187) + 2022 Amendment Adding OSH as Fundamental Right →

Questions people ask about compliance risk assessment

What is Compliance Risk Assessment?
An evaluation of the risks associated with failing to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
Why is Compliance Risk Assessment important for compliance?
Compliance Risk Assessment is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding compliance risk assessment helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Compliance Risk Assessment?
Compliance Risk Assessment appears in the requirement text of ISO 37301:2021, ISO 37302:2025, ISO 37303:2025, ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (Core Conventions). Across these standards we have identified 16 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Compliance Risk Assessment?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how compliance risk assessment applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Compliance Risk Assessment applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.