IMPACT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA MATRIX

IMPACT LIKELIHOOD
Natural Certaint
Score Impact Legal Financial Health and Safety Service Delivery Score Rating Frequency
Environment y

Significant impact on
Significant
Multiple fatalities Significant effect service delivery of the
prosecution and
or significant on biological or product. Performance
5 Catastrophic fines. Very serious Greater than 5 Expected > 90 % Occurs often
irreversible effects physical unacceptable. Does not
litigation including $750m
to >50 persons environment meet a KPP
class action
Requirement

Major impact on
Greater than Single fatality or service delivery of the
Major breach of Serious midterm
$150m and severe, irreversible product. Performance
4 Major regulation. Major environmental 4 Likely 90 % Known to occur
less than disability to one or unacceptable. Does not
litigation effect
$750m more persons meet a threshold
Requirement
Serious breach of
Moderate impact on
regulation with Moderate Moderate short
Greater than service delivery of the
investigation or irreversible term effects but
$30m and product. Performance Known to occur
3 Moderate report to authority disability or not affecting 3 Possible 25 %
less than below goal. Does not occasionally
with prosecution or impairment to one ecosystem
$150m meet a threshold
moderate fine or more persons functions
Requirement
possible
Low impact on service
delivery of the product.
Objective but Minor effect on
Noncompliance or Greater than Performance below
reversible biological or Has occurred
2 Low breaches of $5m and less goal but within 2 Unlikely 10 %
disability requiring physical somewhere
regulation than $30m acceptable limits. Does
hospitalization environment
not meet an objective
Requirement
No medical
Less than No impact on service
1 Minor Minor legal issues treatment No impact 1 Rare 5% Unlikely
$5m delivery of the product
required