INDIVIDUAL SECURITY RISK INDICATOR (ISRI) - Working Paper V4.1

The Individual Security Risk Indicator (ISRI) is a structured assessment tool for evaluating the level of personal safety risk that an individual stakeholder — typically a landholder, occupier, or community member with whom project personnel have direct contact — may pose to field staff, contractors, or project assets. ISRI exists to support a specific and narrow purpose: helping security and land access personnel make consistent, literature-informed, and proportionate decisions about field safety precautions. It is a duty-of-care tool, not an investigative or evidentiary one, and it is not a substitute for police involvement where an immediate threat exists. ISRI is a deliberately separate tool from the Community Opposition Dynamics Index (CODI). CODI assesses aggregate community-level opposition dynamics to assess delivery risk; ISRI assesses individual safety-relevant behaviour to inform personal protective measures. As a governance rule, the two should never be merged or cross-referenced as evidence for one another. High CODI scores reflect legitimate community concern and do not imply elevated ISRI risk for any individual. The reverse is equally true: a project with very low community opposition can still have an isolated individual presenting a genuine ISRI-relevant safety concern unrelated to broader community sentiment. ISRI is an adaptation of an established field — structured professional judgement (SPJ) violence and threat risk assessment — to a context that field has not itself directly addressed: personal safety risk arising from landholders and stakeholders in an infrastructure land-access setting. This section sets out what ISRI draws from that literature and is explicit about where it departs from validated instruments into novel application.