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Coronavirus is not the risk – but it has increased the likelihood of risks in your organisation
I have been observing over the last few weeks, a constant flow of articles on how organisations should prepare for a Coronavirus outbreak that impacts staff. There has been a lot of talk of Pandemic Plans and working remotely from home with some organisations considering taking the drastic step of closing down entire operations. The […]
Coronavirus is not the risk – but – it has increased the likelihood of risks that already existed in your organisation
I have been observing, particularly over the last week, a constant flow of articles on how organisations should prepare for a Coronavirus outbreak that impacts staff. There has been a lot of talk of Pandemic Plans and working remotely from home, with some organisations considering taking the drastic step of closing down entire operations. The […]
# notthatCorona
In 2019 I wrote a blog titled #notthatPaladin in response to the connection that had been made between my company and the Paladin involved in the provision of detention services on Manus Island. I thought I had it bad but spare a thought for poor old Corona beer. As reported in Business Insider Australia, the […]
Changing the Audit Paradigm
Moving from Risk Based Internal Auditing to Consequence Based Internal Auditing I have written extensively on my approach to determining likelihood, as a function of control effectiveness rather than determining likelihood based on time, frequency and/or probability. What’s important to note though, is that using this latter approach means that we also have to shift […]
There was a risk manager who swallowed a fly …..
I am sure most of us are familiar with the poem: There was an old lady who swallowed a fly; I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die! There was an old lady who swallowed a spider; That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her! She swallowed the spider to catch the […]
Crazy Stuff in the Workplace Health and Safety Codes of Practice
Part 2 In part one of this series I discussed the crazy stuff in the Model Code of Practice for Managing the risk of falls from heights. As it is coming up to Christmas, as a special gift, in this blog I will look at two crazy things in the Safety Codes of Practice, both […]
Risk Management Tools – Control Summary and Assessment Pro-forma
The give-aways just keep coming with Paladin Risk Management. In September I gave you the risk register. It’s great for managing risks and I encourage you to download that tool if you haven’t already. Keeping to my promises, as per my risk register blog here’s my Control Summary and Assessment Pro forma that I use […]
Crazy Stuff in the Workplace Health and Safety Codes of Practice
I have, in previous blogs, talked about some of my views on the way that workplace health and safety is being managed within Australia. This is not a criticism of safety professionals who are diligently trying to prevent workplace accidents from occurring. My biggest issue is with the legislation, and in particular the accompanying Codes […]
Big big big news for Paladin
Paladin is now an RTO After many years of working through an Auspice agreement with McMillan Staff Development, Paladin Risk Management Services is now a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) in its own right. Paladin now owns the Professional Security & Risk Institute [RTO Code 45173] (although the name will be changing). I would like to […]
Rod’s Rant –Use professional experts in risk management not ‘fill ins’
This is not just written because I provide training in risk management – well okay – just a little bit. But for me people not appropriately skilled or qualified to take on the responsibilities associated with risk management, is certainly a frustration of mine, and dare I say it, a risk! Quite often it seems […]
