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This document provides guidance for assigning Risk Assessment Codes (RAC) when conducting Risk Management Surveys and Occupational Safety and Health Surveys at multiple General Services Administration Region 5 locations. It details how to evaluate condition severity and incident probability to determine the appropriate RAC using provided tables. Condition severity is based on potential impact and categorized as critical, major, minor or negligible depending on factors such as personnel safety, mission importance, cost and time to recover. Incident probability is classified as likely, probable, possible or unlikely. The RAC is derived from the intersection of severity and probability on a matrix and ranges from 1 to 5, with 1 being the most severe/likely risk.

The related federal contract opportunity is a solicitation from the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 5 for leased fire protection facility assessment reports, risk management surveys, and safety and health risk management surveys at multiple locations. It involves conducting condition assessments and assigning RACs using the methodology outlined in the guidance document.

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Assigning Risk Assessment Codes

The information below has been provided to further detail the Risk Assessment Codes (RAC) in addition to the guidance already provided within the Risk Management Survey template tab titled "RAC

Guidance". Please also use this RAC scoring guidance for the Occupational Safety and Health Survey template when applicable.

Evaluate the condition severity (Table 1) and determine the incident probability (Table 2) if the incident did occur. Then, using the RAC Matrix (Table 3), determine the RAC number for each identified risk condition.

The level of risk for each analyzed condition is expressed in terms of a RAC. The RAC(s) quantifies identified hazardous conditions and allows them to be prioritized. The RAC number reflects the risk potential of the resulting incident and not the individual event(s) contributing to the incident.

The following steps indicate how RAC values are assigned to potential conditions and their associated undesirable events:

1. Develop scenarios that describe how the most reasonable undesirable events affect the identified potential conditions.

2. Estimate the severity of each condition. The condition severity is based upon the potential impact of the condition if the undesirable event(s) occur. Quantitative risk assessment techniques, computer modeling, published information and professional judgment are to be used to determine the severity. See Table 1, Condition Severity.

TABLE 1 - CONDITION SEVERITY

Category Personnel (One or

More Persons)

Mission

Importance

Mission

Impairment

Expected Time

Period

Potential Replacement

Cost Of

Property/Data/

Retrieve Data

I

Death or permanent disability

Critical /Major/

Minor

Total mission loss

Over $1,000,000

Critical > than 2 weeks

II

Severe injury or severe occupational illness

Critical

< than 2 weeks

Between $100,000 and

$1,000,000

Major > than 1 month

III

Minor injury or minor occupational illness

Major

< than 1 month

Between $10,000 and

$100,000

Minor > than 6 weeks

IV

No/or insignificant injury or occupational illness

Minor

< than 6 weeks

Less than $10,000

Negligible Minimal

3. Estimate the probability of the undesirable event(s) occurring. Professional judgment is used to assign one of the incident probability categories. See Table 2, Incident Probability.

Table 2 - Incident Probability

Category Definition

A Likely to occur immediately or in a short period of time in the life of the facility.

B Probably will occur during the life of the facility.

C Possibly will occur during the life of the facility.

D Unlikely to occur during the life of the facility.

4. Determine the RAC number for each identified condition analyzed. This is accomplished by using Table 3, RAC Matrix. The intersection of the Condition Severity and Incident Probability

Category gives a direct reading of the applicable RAC.

TABLE 3 - RISK ASSESSMENT CODE (RAC) MATRIX

Severity Of The Condition

Categories

Probability of Occurrence Categories

A B C D

I RAC 1 RAC 1 RAC 2 RAC 4

II RAC 1 RAC 2 RAC 3 RAC 4

III RAC 2 RAC 3 RAC 4 RAC 5

IV RAC 4 RAC 4 RAC 5 RAC 5

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