Conducting an illegal content risk assessment under the Online Safety Act 2023—checklist


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Conducting an illegal content risk assessment under the Online Safety Act 2023—checklist


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This Checklist sets out the key steps to follow when carrying out an illegal content risk assessment under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA 2023).

Conducting a ‘suitable and sufficient’ illegal content risk assessment is one of the illegal content duties under OSA 2023. It is the first step of compliance and should be used to assess the level of risk associated with a particular service, which in turn will inform decisions about the measures a service will need to take in order to comply with its legal obligations.

For guidance on services within scope of OSA 2023 and further general guidance on the duties of care, see Practice Note: The Online Safety Act 2023.

This Checklist is based on Ofcom’s guidance entitled Protecting people from illegal harms online—Risk Assessment Guidance and Risk Profiles (Risk Assessment Guidance). It is designed to provide an introduction to the steps required, with references to the relevant parts of the Risk Assessment Guidance that contain further detail on this process.

Ofcom’s Risk Assessment Guidance

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