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The Risk Management Standard Strikes again – This time with the help of the Risk Management Handbook
I have previously discussed issues around the risk management definition within ISO 31000 and the fact that the definition itself has created uncertainty (for Blog click here). Well – now I have another axe to grind – well two actually. The first is the use of the term Likelihood in the Standard and the recently […]
Types of Risk
Welcome to this next session. What I want to talk about in this session is the fundamental parts of risk and risk management and the different types of risk. And you hear it all the time, we’ve got strategic risk, operational risk, security risk, safety risk, project risk, to think that those things are different […]
Business Continuity and Critical Business Activities
Hello again, in this session I’m going to talk about business continuity management and in particular how do we actually identify whether something that we do in our organisation is a critical business activity. Now business continuity management is all about making sure that in a time of disaster or after a time of disaster […]
What is a risk?
Hello again and welcome to this session. Today I’m going to discuss one of the most fundamental parts of risk management; “what is a risk?” As you can imagine, over time in the risk management game, I have reviewed so many risk registers. What I tend to find is that there is confusion out there […]
New: The Diploma of Risk Management and Business Continuity via distance education
New in 2014 The Diploma of Risk Management and Business Continuity via distance education Gain a qualification and an industry certification undertaking a course fully accredited by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) and endorsed by the Risk Management Institution of Australasia. As a Risk Management Professional do you need to become certified? Are you […]
Risk Management is not a one person sport
Transcript: Well hello again, in this session I just want to talk about something really short. That is that risk is not a one person sport, or risk management is not a one person sport. In some organisations we have this expectation that the risk manager is going to identify the risks, analyse the risks, […]
“Fluffy” Risk Treatments
Transcript: Hello again, in this session what I want to talk about is risk treatments. In particular, what I want to talk about how we frame our treatments so that they are not, as I term it, “fluffy treatments.” So we might have in our risk register as an example, that a cause of a […]
Naming a Risk
Transcript: In this session what I want to talk about, is how we actually name a risk. And, it’s really interesting because many of the organisations I go into, when I look at their risk registers, what I find is a whole lot of causes in particular but some consequences as well that are being […]
Risk Management – Post event analysis
In this session I want to talk about something that I am passionate about- post event analysis after an event has occurred. How often in your organisations has the same thing happened over and over again? You might sit around and ask why it happened- without implementing any of the reasons or controls identified to […]
Ownership in Risk Management
Transcript: Hello again. In this session, what I want to do about is something that people often ask me, risk ownership or more correctly, the different elements of ownership across the organisation as it relates to risk. There are three distinctive types of ownership within the risk management program or within the risk management process […]
