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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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# 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…

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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…

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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…

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Crazy Stuff in the Workplace Health and Safety Codes of Practice

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…

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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…

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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…

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