Product Compliance, Labeling & Certification worked example

Product Compliance Risk Score with consequence severity rating of 15 score: a worked example

What does the result look like when consequence severity rating reaches 15 score? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when product compliance risk in product compliance, labeling and certification needs a defensible ranking against other product compliance, labeling and certification risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Consequence severity rating: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Occurrence likelihood rating: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Detection difficulty rating: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Product compliance risk score = product compliance risk severity score × product compliance risk occurrence score × product compliance risk detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.15 score for product compliance risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15 score for product compliance risk severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for product compliance risk occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for product compliance risk detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where consequence severity rating sits at 6 score and the headline result is 4.55 score, this scenario comes in 79.12% above the baseline at 8.15 score.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when consequence severity rating is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. RPN scores are ordinal, not absolute — a score is only comparable to others built on the identical 1-to-N scale, and equal scores can hide very different severity profiles.

Results at a glance

  • Product compliance risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Product compliance risk severity score: 15 score
  • Product compliance risk occurrence score: 4 score
  • Product compliance risk detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Product Compliance Risk Score calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.