TSE ISO/IEC GUIDE 73

TSE ISO/IEC GUIDE 73: TSE ISO/IEC Guide 73 is a withdrawn guide that supports the consistent treatment of risk management terms and definitions in standards. Its subject is the harmonisation of technical language so that the same risk-related concepts are used with the same meaning across different documents.

Why the risk-management vocabulary matters

In risk management, terminology is more than wording: it separates concepts such as uncertainty, event, consequence and likelihood, which are often used together but are not interchangeable. In general technical context, a vocabulary guide helps standards writers use generic definitions and avoid ambiguity when a term appears in multiple sectors or disciplines. That consistency is important wherever risk is discussed in management systems, safety-related documentation, quality frameworks or conformity-related texts.

How this kind of guide is used in standards writing

This document is a guide for standards developers rather than a product test method or performance specification. Risk management is a broad discipline concerned with how organisations identify, analyse, evaluate and treat uncertainty and its potential effects. A stable vocabulary supports clearer standards by making sure that key concepts are described in a comparable way, even when the surrounding technical subject changes from one standard to another.

• The covered subject is generic definitions for risk-management terms.
• It is intended for use by standards writers.
• It supports a common technical language for risk concepts.
• This TSE record is withdrawn.