RM2.2: Social Risk Assessment - Design
Prefill
Eligible
Validation
Evidence and Other answer are manually validated
2026 Updates
None
Has the entity performed a social risk assessment(s) for the design of the asset within the last three years?
Assessment Instructions
Intent: What is the purpose of this indicator?
The intent of this indicator is to assess the forward-looking, life-cycle-oriented risk assessment process for social risks that generates insights into the identified and potential risks at the beginning of the project—in the design phase – which allow the entity to identify, analyze, evaluate and treat the risks the project will be exposed to across its life cycle.
Input: How do I complete this indicator?
Select Yes or No: If selecting 'Yes', select applicable sub-options.
Elements of risk assessment process: Select one of the available options. These have been aligned with the ISO 31000 Risk Management standard.
Material social issues: Select all issues that are covered by the entity’s risk assessment process(es). It is possible to report using the ‘Other’ answer option. Ensure that the ‘Other’ answer provided is not a duplicate or subset of another option. It is possible to report multiple ‘Other’ answers.
Terminology
Child labor
Work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to their physical or mental development including by interfering with their education. Specifically, it means types of work that are not permitted for children below the relevant minimum age.
Community
Persons or groups of persons living and/or working in any areas that are economically, socially or environmentally impacted (positively or negatively) by an entity’s ope
Contractors
Persons or organizations working onsite or offsite on behalf of an entity. A contractor can contract their own workers directly, or contract sub-contractors or independent contractors.
Community development
Actions to minimize, mitigate, or compensate for adverse social and/or economic impacts, and/or to identify opportunities or actions to enhance positive impacts on individuals/groups living or working in areas that are affected/could be affected by the organization's activities
Customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is one measure of an entity's sensitivity to its customers’ needs and preferences and, from an organizational perspective, is essential for long-term success. In the context of sustainability, customer satisfaction provides insight into how the entity approaches its relationship with one stakeholder group (customers).
Human capital
Human capital refers to the knowledge, culture, skills, experience, and overall contributions of an organization’s workforce. It encompasses strategies for fairly attracting, developing, and retaining talent, fostering a productive and engaged workplace, and ensuring fair and effective workforce management. Many organizational approaches can contribute to human capital objectives, including talent development & advancement; skills-based hiring & development; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Employee engagement
An employee's involvement with, commitment to and satisfaction with the entity.
Forced or compulsory labor
All work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered themselves voluntarily.
Freedom of association
Right of employers and workers to form, to join and to run their own organizations without prior authorization or interference by the state or any other entity.
Health and safety
Protecting the entity's stakeholders from harm or death due to injury or disease. Often, this is executed by developing policy, analyzing and controlling health and safety risks, providing training, and recording and investigating health and safety incidents.
Labor standards and working conditions
Labor standards and working conditions are at the core of paid work and employment relationships. Working conditions cover a broad range of topics and issues, from working time (hours of work, rest periods, and work schedules) to remuneration, as well as the physical conditions and mental demands that exist in the workplace.
Local employment
Providing jobs and skills to local people as employees, and to local contractors.
Risk analysis
Studying probabilities and consequences given the existing controls, to identify the level of residual risk.
Risk assessment
Careful examination of the factors that could potentially adversely impact the value or longevity of an infrastructure asset. The results of the assessment assist in identifying measures that have to be implemented in order to prevent and mitigate the risks.
Risk evaluation
Comparing risk analysis results with risk criteria to determine whether the residual risk is tolerable.
Risk identification
Identifying what could prevent an organization from achieving their objectives.
Risk treatment
Control / mitigation of the risk.
Social enterprise partnering
An entity's partnerships with organizations that have social objectives that serve as the primary purpose of the organization.
Stakeholder relations
The practice of forging mutually beneficial connections with third-party groups and indivduals that have a stake in common interest.
Supply chain
Range of activities carried out by organizations upstream from the reporting entity (i.e. with whom the entity has an indirect commercial relationship), which provide products or services that are used in the development of the entity's own products or services.
Users
Users are people that interact physically with the asset when they use its services.
Validation: What evidence is required?
Evidence
The evidence provided will be subject to manual validation.
Evidence does not necessarily need to be provided in full. Rather, the evidence needs to be sufficient to verify the existence of the claimed risk assessment for each issue.
The provided evidence must include the following elements:
Confirms that a social risk assessment was conducted and clearly presents the outcomes of the risk assessment.
Includes all selected elements of the risk assessment process, for all selected social issues, highlighting or bringing attention to these where possible.
Include all selected social issues within the assessment, highlighting or bringing attention to these where possible.
Relates to an assessment that has taken place within the last three years, up to and including the end of the reporting year identified in EC4.
Evidence examples may include but are not limited to:
Documents or section of documents, in their original or redacted form, such as:
Corporate risk registers
Social aspects and impacts registers
H&S inspections and audits
Employee surveys
Monitoring reports
Annual reports
Social impact assessments
Social management plans/reports
Meeting minutes or company presentations
Procedure or process document(s) (e.g. from a risk management system) when supported with documentation that details the outcome of the risk assessment for selected issues.
See below for an example of a risk register structure:
Social issues
Risk description
Risk rating
Mitigation measures
Likelihood / Consequence / Rating
The GRESB / B Capital Due Diligence tool (ESG DD Tool) contains such a register in the sheet named "ESG Risk & Opps Assessment". Contractor and/or operator engagement: In some cases, an indicator addresses an activity that applies to the reporting entity, yet is undertaken by an assigned contractor, operator and/or contracted entity. This is often the case, for example, for PPP type arrangements. In these cases, when providing evidence, the participant should specify the entity undertaking the activity and the relationship to that entity, to verify how these actions are applicable to the reporting entity. Copies of redacted contractual agreements/clauses to verify these relationships are acceptable.
Other Answer
The ‘Other’ answer provided will be subject to manual validation.
Add a response that applies to the entity but is not already listed. Ensure that the ‘Other’ answer provided is not a duplicate or subset of another option (e.g. “recycling” when “‘Waste” is selected). It is possible to report multiple ‘Other’ answers. If multiple ‘Other’ answers are listed, more than one may be accepted in manual validation.
Scoring
Scoring: How does GRESB score this indicator?
Materiality-based scoring
The scoring of this indicator is equal to the sum of the fractions assigned to the selected options and respective sub-options, multiplied by the total score of the indicator. The fractional points assigned to each option depend on their material relevance (as determined by the GRESB Materiality Assessment).
The entity must select all issues of ‘Medium relevance’ and ‘High relevance’ to obtain the maximum score.
Specific materiality weightings are assigned to the entity for each sustainability issue. The weightings are set at one of four levels for each of the issues:
No relevance (scoring weight: 0)
Low relevance (scoring weight: 0)
Medium relevance (scoring weight: 1)
High relevance (scoring weight: 2)
The scoring of this indicator is equal to the fraction assigned to the selected option, multiplied by the total score of the indicator.
Evidence
The evidence is manually validated and assigned a multiplier, according to the table below. The evidence must support the validation requirements. If any requirements are not met, the evidence may be partially accepted or not accepted, depending on the level of alignment with the requirements.
Accepted
2/2
Partially Accepted
1/2
Not Accepted
0
Other
The 'Other' answer is manually validated and assigned a score, which is used as a score multiplying factor as outlined below:
Accepted
1/1
Not Accepted
0
Duplicate
0
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