an owner’s representative is a team risk manager

The Owner’s Representative as risk manager:

  • creates plans to mitigate
  • seeks direction from owner

owner’s representative role as risk manager


The owner’s Representative role includes:

  • Planning how risk will be managed in the particular project. Plans should include risk management tasks, responsibilities,
    activities and budget.
  • Assigning a risk officer—a team member other than a project manager who is responsible for foreseeing potential project
    problems. Typical characteristic of risk officer is a healthy skepticism.
  • Maintaining live project risk database. Each risk should have the following attributes: opening date, title, short description,
    probability and importance. Optionally a risk may have an assigned person responsible for its resolution and a date by
    which the risk must be resolved.
  • Creating anonymous risk reporting channel. Each team member should have possibility to report risk that he/she
    foresees in the project.
  • Preparing mitigation plans for risks that are chosen to be mitigated. The purpose of the mitigation plan is to describe
    how this particular risk will be handled-what, when, by who and how will it be done to avoid it or minimize consequences
    if it becomes a liability.
  • Summarizing planned and faced risks, effectiveness of mitigation activities, and effort spent for the risk management.