The process of evaluating potential security risks—based on analysis of an arms control event—to a facility, system, or operation. The risk assessment is designed to identify unrelated information or areas which could heighten an inspector’s rationale to request access to specific information or areas; e.g., restricted areas, enhanced physical security characteristics, hazardous material signs, etc. Also, an assessment by the technical secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to determine the number, intensity, duration, timing, and mode of inspections for a particular facility. Based on the risk to the object and purpose of the Chemical Weapons Convention posed by the quantities of chemicals produced, the characteristics of the facility, and the nature of the activities carried out.