Chapter 6Risk Management & Proportionality
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Establish an enterprise-wide system of portfolio risk management across defence and decommissioning sectors

Enterprise-wide portfolio risk management

Full Recommendation Text

Develop and implement systems that allow portfolio risks across defence and decommissioning sectors, to be properly managed, while maintaining the respective duties and responsibilities of dutyholders and regulators.

Adopt a system of top-down risk apportionment which accounts for the interdependency of activities across each sector portfolio risks to produce an overall ALARP position and achieve defence and decommissioning missions.

Update Timeline
On Track

Government Response: Pan-enterprise safety systems

The Government will establish pan-enterprise safety systems with portfolio-level risk management, directly addressing the Taskforce's recommendation. Delivery will be incremental through a combination of policy and legislative reform, with completion targeted by end 2027 — consistent with the original timeline. This is a significant commitment that would enable the defence and decommissioning sectors to manage risk across their entire portfolio rather than on a site-by-site basis, which has been a major source of inefficiency.

Policy Paper • DESNZ, March 2026
Incremental delivery through policy and legislative reform by end 2027.
Ownership

Primary Owner

MOD

Co-owners

NDA

Key Regulators

ONRDNSR
Delivery Timeline
31 Dec 27

Taskforce target: December 2027

Scope

Sectors

defence

Domains

risk managementgovernance
Implementation Type
organisational changeguidance
Dependencies

Depends On

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