Impact scale
Administrators only: This page describes a setting reserved for organisation administrators.
The impact scale defines, for each type of impact and each level, a description that serves as a reference for the AI when assessing the consequences of feared events and risks.
Role of the impact scale
Each feared event and each risk identified in a project is assessed on one or more impact dimensions. The impact scale frames this assessment by providing a textual description for each (impact type, level) pair.
These descriptions form the shared reading grid of the organisation. They are used by the AI during automatic impact generations and by analysts when they manually adjust the levels.
The quality of the descriptions entered on this page has a direct effect on the consistency of the impacts generated by the AI. The more precise and contextualised the wording to your organisation, the more relevant the automatic assessments will be.
Default available impact types
The platform provides eight predefined impact types, covering the main analysis dimensions:
- Human
- Environmental
- Reputational
- Legal
- Operational
- Social
- Strategic
- Financial
You can keep this reference set as is, modify the existing descriptions or add new impact types tailored to your organisation's context.
Scale structure
For each impact type, the scale has four levels:
| Level | Usage |
|---|---|
| Low | Minor, localised and reversible consequence |
| Medium | Notable consequence, with effects limited in time or space |
| High | Significant consequence, hard to contain |
| Very high | Major consequence, lasting or irreversible |
Each level is associated with a textual description specifying the severity threshold adopted by the organisation.
| Impact type | 🟢 Low | 🟡 Medium | 🟠 High | 🔴 Very high |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human | Outpatient harm, no hospitalisation | Short hospitalisation, no after-effects | Serious injuries, lasting after-effects | Death or life-threatening harm |
| Financial | < €10k | €10k – €100k | €100k – €1M | > €1M |
| Reputation | Individual dissatisfaction | Local coverage | National coverage | Lasting media crisis |
| Legal | Warning | Light administrative sanction | Heavy sanction, litigation | Criminal sanction, licence revocation |
| Operational | Occasional inconvenience | Short interruption | Prolonged service interruption | Complete shutdown of activity |
Indicative example — each organisation calibrates its own thresholds.
Example description
For the impact type Human, level Low:
Harm to the health of customers or employees, outpatient, no hospitalisation.
This kind of concrete, measurable wording allows the AI to align a feared event with the right impact level during the analysis.
Modify the scale
From the page, you can:
- Add an impact type — enter the name of the new type, then fill in the four level descriptions
- Modify a description — update the wording of a level for an existing impact type
- Add an additional level if your organisation uses finer granularity
- Delete an impact type from the reference set
The changes are taken into account immediately on subsequent AI generations.
Use by the AI
During the risk analysis, the AI consults the impact scale to:
- Generate feared events with impacts consistent with the project
- Assess the severity of risks identified in the matrix
- Suggest remediation measures appropriate to the impact level to be reduced
Reuse, in the descriptions, the business vocabulary of your organisation (financial amounts, number of people concerned, downtime, etc.). The AI relies on these wordings to align its assessments as closely as possible to your context.