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Restarting the NRL – sensational – but ……
It has been announced that the National Rugby League (NRL) will recommence the competition on the 28th May 2020. Whilst, on the surface, this feels like we are getting back to some level of normalcy (albeit that the players and officials will be in isolation) there is an elephant in the room that I don’t […]
A one in a 30-year incident – 30 years in the making
In February 2020, the Queensland Coroner released his report into the tragic deaths of four people at Dreamworld in October 2016. The report detailed the causes of the tragedy and also highlighted the apparent lack of, or ineffective risk assessments undertaken in the years leading up to the incident. This is an excerpt of my […]
Paladin Risk Management Services during COVID-19
As you can appreciate, in these current times, and with significant travel restrictions in place, there is no capacity for face-to-face courses to be delivered for the foreseeable future. But fear not – as you would expect from someone that teaches business continuity – there was a plan in place 😊. To that end, Paladin […]
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 […]
