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 […]
You can’t ‘escape’ from control effectiveness
I’m going out on a limb here, yet again, as I anticipate a strong reaction to my take on the fact that the likelihood of a risk occurring in an organisation cannot be determined by time, frequency or probability – it’s all in my Risk Tip #11. This stirred up some in the risk management […]
Risk Management Tools – Risk Register
Time and again I get asked about my template for a risk register. Most people know that my approach is somewhat different to those that have traditionally been used. Don’t get me wrong – I am not talking about a register that is completely different to those that are commonly used, however, there are a […]
#notthatpaladin
It’s been a little bit of an awkward time for Paladin Risk Management Services thanks to an unfortunate mix up between my outstanding and upstanding company Paladin Risk Management Services and another company called Paladin Group which has recently come under fire for allegedly controversial business at Manus Island. I’m not going to comment further […]
