Excel toolkit for the CFO and ARC Chair

The Risk Register Starter Kit.
For junior explorers and ARC chairs.

Thirty pre-populated risks across WHS, environmental, tenement, JORC, financial and insurance categories. Each row has an owner, a control, a cadence, and the director duty it maps back to. Excel plus a short explainer. Free.
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Used by CFOs and ARC Chairs across small-cap ASX miners. We never sell data.
What's inside

The register plus the explainer.

Six artefacts in one workbook. Drop it in front of the ARC and the meeting runs itself.

Risk Catalogue · 30 risks, 7 categories

WHS, environmental, tenement, JORC, financial, governance, technology. Pre-written, pre-categorised.

Risk Register

Likelihood · Consequence · Inherent + Residual · Owner · Control · Cadence · Director-duty link.

Treatment Plan

Actions, owners, due dates. Every risk with a rating of High or Extreme has a treatment row.

5 × 5 Heat-Map

Auto-plots from residual ratings. The one-page visual the ARC reads in two minutes.

Six-page explainer (PDF)

Scoring scale, ARC 45-minute review flow, director-duty linkage, how to run quarterly refresh.

Named ownership convention

Every risk has a named role. "Management" is banned. If nobody is named, nobody owns it.

Who it's for

CFOs. ARC chairs. Company secretaries. MDs.

The CFO stepping into a junior and finding no live risk register. The ARC chair inheriting a spreadsheet that has not moved in eighteen months. The Company Secretary trying to reconcile a heat-map to the risks actually discussed in the boardroom. The MD preparing a capital-raise deck that needs a credible risk section.

If any of those is you, the kit is a day-one upgrade. It assumes a four-to-fifty-person ASX-listed junior miner — not a producer with a full risk function. The thirty risks are pre-scoped, the scoring is structured, and the director-duty overlay is already wired in.

Related reading

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Disclaimer

How to use this tool responsibly.

GroundOne downloadable tools are provided to help junior miner boards and executive teams navigate the governance and compliance challenges they face. They are designed to assist, not to replace, the specialist advice your circumstances may require.

You remain responsible for meeting your firm's governance and compliance obligations at all times. It is your duty to understand the specific requirements that apply to your ASX listing category, jurisdictions of operation, tenement portfolio, and board composition, and to seek specialist advice where your situation demands it.

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