Notwithstanding the domain of activities where they are conducted, projects often entail risks, and risk management has been widely recognized as a success factor in project management. While several lists of risk factors have been proposed in several domains, there exists no generic tool for helping the assessment of the risk level of a given project. This paper presents the Gresults of a first effort toward such a generic tool. Following a review of the literature on project risk management in various domains, the paper presents a generic list of risk factors.