FSC Risk Assessments

FSC Risk Assessments assess the risk of sourcing material from supply areas and establish mitigation measures to address those identified risks. Companies can use the mitigation measures from the assessment or propose their own mitigation measures that are considered more effective and fit to their context. The risk assessment is a document that contains indicators covering several key requirements for FSC such as High Conservation Values, human and labour rights, environmental protection, among others.

How the risk assessments are developed is through the Risk Assessment Framework; which ensures uniform and robust requirements for assessing those risks.

So, why are risk assessments important for FSC?

Risk Assessments help to understand the potential risks that exists in a country, region or part of a country regarding the different requirements that are key in FSC certification system.

This platform provides a simplified, easy-to-use overview of the contents of all 60 FSC risk assessments for use when applying FSC-STD-40-005 Requirements for Sourcing FSC Controlled Wood. On this platform you can find summaries of the risk descriptions and the precise control measures that are contained in the original risk assessments. This information is provided with the intent of making it more accessible to certificate holders and certification bodies. The definitive information is found in the FSC risk assessments on the FSC document centre.