Risk management is not a compliance activity
When consulting to an organisation, it frustrated me when I heard “thanks for developing our risk management framework – now we will pass the audit” or, “we are now compliant…
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30
APR
2019
02
APR
2019
Some more thoughts on Safety Management
I went out on a limb the other day and blogged about zero harm not being achievable. Boy did it trigger significant controversy and opinion with some supporting what I…
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02
APR
2019
Am I vulnerable, under threat, or at risk?
I recently received a request to write a blog to clarify the difference between risk and vulnerability. In a perfect world risk would be looked at holistically and there would…
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06
MAR
2019
Zero harm is not achievable
“Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let’s just say I believe that nothing is impossible” – Dave Collins “What a strange sense of logic to fixate on…
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06
MAR
2019
Analysing Strategic Risks
I have previously written on the difference between strategic and operational risks. In that blog I highlighted the difference between the two as shown in the diagram below: I have…
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02
FEB
2019
Do we need a risk matrix? – part 2
In the December 2018 newsletter I asked a simple question – do we need a risk matrix? In that blog I detailed the example of a water corporation that had…
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02
FEB
2019
Downstream/Unintended Consequences of Risk Minimisation Decisions
In January two Canadians lost their lives after mishaps with charity clothing bins. This brought the total deaths from misuse of clothing bins to four in the last five years…
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02
DEC
2018
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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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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