The Scenario Library, opened via Explore Library on the Risk Register, holds 76 pre-built risk scenarios across 23 incident types. Adopt a scenario to add it to your register pre-populated with indicators, hierarchy targets, and linked controls.
Open via Risk Register → Explore Library
Scenarios are tabbed: Required, Recommended, Optional, All Scenarios
Each scenario shows its code, category, active frameworks, hierarchy level, and adoption status
Adopting a scenario seeds your register with its content, ready to assess
Framework activation auto-creates required scenarios
Opening the library
From the Risk Register, click Explore Library in the top right. The Scenario Library page opens with a "Back to Risk Register" link in the top left.
The page shows four tabs:
Required: scenarios mandated by your active frameworks
Recommended: scenarios commonly adopted in your sector
Optional: scenarios available but not flagged for your context
All Scenarios: the full library
The number on each tab shows how many scenarios fall into that band.
What each scenario shows
Column | Meaning |
Risk | The scenario name and code (for example, "BU-1 · Harmful Behaviour"). Includes an "In Register" tag if already adopted |
Active Frameworks | Which of your activated frameworks this scenario applies to |
Category | The psychosocial category the scenario belongs to (for example, "Job Demands, Low Job Control") |
Hierarchy Level | The recommended target hierarchy of controls level (Elimination, Substitution, Engineering, Administrative, Personal) |
Adopting a scenario
Click into any scenario to see its full description, indicators, and pre-linked controls. From there, adopt it into your register.
Adopting a scenario:
Adds the scenario to your Risk Register as a new risk
Pre-populates the indicators and recommended controls
Sets the source to Adopted
Leaves the assessment in Draft state, ready for you to rate inherent and residual risk
You can adopt the same scenario at multiple organisational levels (for example, an org-wide assessment and a site-specific one).
Auto-creation on framework activation
When you activate a framework, ReFresh automatically creates the Required scenarios for that framework in your register. This means you do not have to remember to adopt them.
Recommended and Optional scenarios are not auto-adopted; you choose whether to bring them in.
Customising adopted scenarios
Once a scenario is in your register, you can:
Edit the title and description
Adjust the inherent and residual ratings during assessment
Add or remove linked controls
Change the lifecycle status as the assessment progresses
The scenario's link back to its source library entry is preserved, so you can compare your version to the original.
Related articles
Using the risk register (3.8)
Conducting a risk assessment (3.7)
The control library (4.2)
Activating a framework (5.2)