Is this the un-mitigatable risk?
I, like many other strawberry lovers in Australia, was horrified when the first case of a needle found in a strawberry was reported in mid-September. It was quickly followed by…
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02
DEC
2018
29
NOV
2018
Do we need a risk matrix?
Lately I have been thinking (dangerous I know); is the risk matrix truly useful to communicate the level of risk? For example, does a High Risk actually mean the risk…
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03
DEC
2018
Keep you hands off our sausage sandwiches
What is it about the humble sausage sandwich that it seems to be the source of such enormous risk – and, it needs to be said, a great deal of…
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23
OCT
2018
Changes Coming to Paladin in 2019
2018 has been another very very busy year at Paladin. Courses in every capital city as well as Broken Hill, Mount Isa and some consultancy in South Korea has left…
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23
OCT
2018
Rod’s Risk Rant – this is not an accident!!!!
As a professional risk manager, I am nearly lost for words at what took place in New York on 9th October 2018. A group of people heading to a birthday…
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28
OCT
2018
Who let the dogs out
Here we go again. On 4th September the Daily Telegraph reveals another ‘Mad Monday’ showing Canterbury Bulldogs players in various states of disrepair and some of them in various states…
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13
SEP
2018
Flagging my risk management in South Korea
Rod’s reach has now extended to South Korea, working with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a fund established within the framework of the UNFCCC as an operating entity…
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13
SEP
2018
Risk Tip # 14 – Disruption Related Risks
Introduction Many of your organisations, no doubt, have a Business Continuity Plan and, if it is like so many that I have experienced, the plan will detail: Where the alternate…
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13
SEP
2018
Mixed messages
The impact of incentives, targets, and/or punitive measures on the management of risk When we go to work, we expect to come home. But tragically that’s not always the case.…
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14
AUG
2018
Risk-Based Approach
It’s always a bit of a giggle when a politician, or a government official makes a statement that they are “taking a risk-based approach” to that issue or policy. It…
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