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Introduction
Closing a Risk removes it from your active Risk Register. All closed Risks remain available for retrospective reporting. A closed Risk can e reopened should it start impacting your organisation. Abandoning a Risk will permanently delete it from your Risk Register altogether.
Closing a Risk
- Navigate to the specific Risk on your Risk Register (see Viewing The Risk Register and Individual Risks for more information).
- Select the icon labelled "close risk". You will be asked to provide a reason for this which will be stored in the History section of the Risk.

- This will close the risk down. The status of the Risk will now change to say it is closed.

- From the Risk Register itself, you can view all closed risks using the show closed tab.

- Select the Reopen icon at the top of the closed risk.
- You will be asked to provide a reason for reopening the risk which will be stored in the History tab.

Abandoning a Risk
- Once a Risk has been abandoned it is permanently deleted and cannot be retrieved.
- On the Risk select the Abandon icon.

- You will be asked to enter the risk reference and a reason for abandoning the risk.

- Click Abandon to confirm.
FAQs
I cannot find the icons mentioned in this guide...
- If you do not have the option to close, reopen or abandon a Risk it is due to your permissions. Please speak to your system Administrator who will be able to discuss this with you.