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title: Assess risks
description: Use the classic risk assessment and assess the risks in your organization.
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product: GRC: Risk Management Workspace
classification: grc-risk-management-workspace
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breadcrumb: [Use, Risk Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
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# Assess risks

Use the classic risk assessment and assess the risks in your organization.

-   **[Create a risk assessment using the Risk Assessment Designer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/create-assessment-using-assessment-designer.md)**  
Use the Risk Assessment Designer to create and edit metric types, use different metric types for different risks, select multiple respondents for a risk assessment, as well as change scoring parameters. The Question Bank offers a library of questions for various categories, so you do not have to build each questionnaire from scratch.
-   **[Create an assessment type](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/create-assessment-type.md)**  
The risk manager can create a set of questions for each risk assessment.
-   **[Assess risk for a policy exception](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/assess-the-risk-on-policy-exception.md)**  
After the review of a policy exception request and before deciding to approve or reject a request, the compliance manager may choose to request a risk assessment by the risk manager.
-   **[Assess a risk](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/assess-a-risk.md)**  
Risks start in a **Draft** state then move to the **Assess** state.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Risk Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/using-risk-mgmt.md)