Risk Management

Risk and Safety Maturity Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE There are many programs which advertise about ‘safety leadership’ and ‘safety culture’ but advocate little more than tightening up systems, vigilance in policing and raising penalties for non-compliance. Whilst systems, policing and compliance [...]

Effectiveness in Managing Risk and Cultural Change

Effectiveness in Managing Risk and Cultural Change The need to change safety culture Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE In recent times it has occurred to coroner’s at inquests, auditors and government (eg. Cole Commission) that poor safety culture has a central role [...]

Risk Management Basics

Risk Management Basics written by: T.S. SARASWATHI Risk management is to ensure that the business is not exposed to risk by an effective implementation of the plan or to reduce the impact by mitigating such risk. The plan of risk management encompasses techniques as well as strategies for confronting and recognizing the threats. If the [...]

7 Steps To Developing A Risk Management Plan

7 Steps To Developing A Risk Management Plan By Sylvia Hepler Risk is real for any company or organization. Don’t kid yourself. Things happen when you least expect them to happen. Are YOU ready for the unimaginable, the unexpected, the unwanted? As an executive, have you put your head in the sand around risk? Do [...]

The Principles of Risk Management

The Principles of Risk Management By Simon Buehring Every project manager and business leader needs to be aware of the practices and principles of effective risk management. Understanding how to identify and treat risks to an organisation, a programme or a project can save unnecessary difficulties later on, and will prepare managers and team members [...]

What is The Perfect Safety Professional

The Perfect Safety Professional? I was recently asked to assist in putting together a list of the qualities that the “Perfect” Safety Professional should posses. this was my response: The more I think about it the more I think that it may be wrong to use the word “Perfect”. If that is the goal then [...]

Risk Perception

WHAT MAKES SOME RISKS MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN OTHERS? The following factors influence perceived risk: Voluntary risks are accepted more readily than imposed risks Risks under individual control are accepted more readily than those under government control. Risks that seem fair are more acceptable than unfair. Risk information that comes from trustworthy sources is more readily [...]

Simple Risk Assessment Software

Our Free Electronic Risk Score Calculator today celebrated a major milestone: 100,000 downloads! Get yours here: This simple risk assessment software can be used to instantly calculate the risk score based on various criteria such as Probability, Exposure and Consequence. Each of these variables can be altered to by sliding the pointer with your mouse [...]

OHS Challenges in Australia 2011

OHS Challenges in Australia 2011 This is one of the best safety papers I have read for a long, long time and TOTALLY RELEVANT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. Its Author, George Robotham from OHS Change admits to having a healthy dis-respect for many common approaches to OHS Management and OHS Training – and he [...]

An Example of a Risk Management Plan for Use on Any Project

An Example of a Risk Management Plan for Use on Any Project. Introduction The risk management plan identifies the risks that can be defined at this stage of the project life cycle, evaluates them, and outlines mitigation actions. Your risk management plan should be periodically updated and expanded throughout the life cycle of your project, [...]

Risk Management – Planning Ahead and Preventing Project Failure

Risk Management: Planning Ahead and Preventing Project Failure. Risks vs. Effects Throughout a project, managers can help their teams focus on the right actions by developing the distinction between risks and effects. Making the project late or failing to meet quality guidelines might look like risks to new team members. However, both of those events [...]

Basic Risk Assessment Essentials

Risk Assessment

photo credit: mnadi Basic Risk Assessment Essentials By Dominic Donaldson As any company will testify, payouts for injuries to staff or members of the public is a costly process, and in the case of staff injuries loses valuable working hours in the process. To minimize accidents occurring and to adhere to insurance company policies, risks [...]

ISO 31000 and Enterprise Risk Management

ERM

After the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) introduced the “Risk Management: Principles and Guidelines on Implementation” (also known as the ISO 31000) in 2009, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) updated their Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) standards written in 2004 to reflect new information introduced in the ISO 31000. COSO has [...]

Broken Sprinkler CCTV Footage

Accidents

This post on our sister site PUBLIC LIABILITY is currently getting a lot of hits. As one person commented (via LinkedIn): “This is a brilliant case for why any “incident reporting / management system” needs to accomodate more than just Workers Compensation. This single episode has implications for not only WorkCover but also property insurance [...]

Office Risk Assessment

Office Safety

[picappgallerysingle id="5282865"] Risk Assessment: Tips for Assessing Risks in an Office When discussing risk assessment, most risk is attributed to factories, mining, construction sites, and other high-risk work areas. However, risks exist in every single workplace, and risk assessment should be completed in even the lowest risk environments. Let’s look at risk assessment in offices. [...]

ISO 31000 Free Downloads

The Institute of Risk Management have released a new free document: ‘A Structured Approach to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the Requirements of ISO 31000′ it has been produced by IRM, AIRMIC and Alarm. This provides up to date and practical guidance on the implementation of the new ISO standard. Download here Following the publication [...]

Guidelines for Tunnelling Risk Assessment

Construction Safety

Currently working on the risk management plan for a large tunneling project when I came across this really useful free risk assessment guideline from the International Tunnelling And Underground Space Association Although designed specifically for tunneling, it is generic enough to be used for any major construction project. Download here:

Risk Assessment

Download Free Risk Assessment Templates from our huge collection here: RISK ASSESSMENT TEMPLATES Risk Assessment In any job or workplace, certain risks exist. For some jobs, the risks are minimal, like carpal tunnel in office work, however, in other jobs, the risks can be quite large and/or quite commonplace. Mining, for example, presents risks to [...]

Management of Risk – An Art or a Science?

[picappgallerysingle id="307224"] Management of Risk – An Art or a Science? By Shyamala Sankaranrayanan BUSINESS RISK is a term that explains the difference between the expectation of return on investment and actual realization. In CAPITAL BUDGETING, several alternatives of investments are examined before taking an investment decision and only then the Managing Director of the [...]

Risk Management Software

If you’ve ever searched for a simple, cost effective software system to help you manage safety risk or enterprise risk management you may have done what I did – GIVEN UP! The is an absolute plethora (love that word) of options and systems out there, all promising to deliver comprehensive, innovative, award winning, hand held, [...]

New Free Risk Assessment Software

Our friends at On Safe Lines have just announced the launch of TIRA G-Lite. TIRA stands for Task Inventory and Risk Assessments and is a comprehensive risk management and analysis program, designed to be used by both the safety professional and those with part time safety responsibilities. TIRA is the result of 10 years learning [...]

Risk Score Calculator for iphone

iPhone Apps

Finally – a useful risk management app for iphone. The “Risk Score Calculator” – Adapted from the AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 Standard! RiskRate helps you to assess the risk of a hazardous event or situation in three easy steps. two reviews so far – one good – one not so good – let me know what [...]

Fire Safety Risk Assessment Software

Fire Safety

Fire Safety Risk Assessment Software – Tools For Risk Assessments By K Garrow All businesses in the UK have to carry out a fire risk assessment by law. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order of 2005 introduced this requirement. While the requirements of the legislation are all based on the very obvious need to protect [...]

Example Risk Assessment Templates

Free Downloads

Example risk assessments These completed examples from UK Health and Safety Directive in their cases studies section show really well how many other other businesses similar to yours have tackled the sometime taunting task of completing even basic risk assessments and analysis. The principals of risk assessment are the same for whatever industry you are [...]

Free Safety and Risk Management Downloads

Free Downloads

This is our current list of free safety and risk management downloads These free downloads are for general information only and we accept no responsibility for the content, compliance with any standards/legislation or how you choose to use or modify them. If you have any documents that others might find useful please send them in [...]

Office Risk Assessment Tool

Office Safety

UK Health and Safety Executive have released a new online risk assessment tool that they claim will: “help cut back the time it takes to weigh up the hazards in offices to just 20 minutes”. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help employers to consider relevant hazards in their [...]

Risk Management Safety

Risk Management Safety By Frank Quarato It is a sensible idea for every company to have regular evaluations for risk management and safety, and a qualified safety officer either outsourced or employed on site can have this done for you. If you have been looking online to find the best training courses for your company [...]

A Quick Guide to Risk Management

A Quick Guide to Risk Management By Sam Miller We cannot deny that we are in a world where risk is something that we cannot avoid. Risk is everywhere no matter what you do and wherever you may be. When it comes to business, risk is something that has to be dealt with successfully. This [...]

Electronic Risk Score Calculator

Download Here: Electronic Risk Score Calculator Risk Score Nomograms are based on OHS Risk Assessment AS/NZS 4804:2001 and contained in HB205-2004 OHS Risk Management Handbook. The Ratings used for the Risk Calculation have been adapted from Fine, Journal of Safety Research 1971 page-159. The risk assessment calculator is intended as a guide to identify level [...]

Free Online Risk Assessment Tools

The SAFETY GURU website offers a number of really neat online risk assessment tools. They are available for various tasks including :Working Alone, Driving at Work, Working at Height, Slips, Trips and Falls, Work Place Transport Safety, Cleaning, Young Persons, VDU’s and Fire Risk. Simply click on the activity, fill in all the details including [...]

Free Risk Assessment Forms

Checklists

One of our favourite sources of free Safety Photos and Safety Jokes – www.safetyphoto.co.uk – is also a great source for free risk assessment forms and templates. These are all blank and mostly in word for so that you can adapt them to suit your own needs. Please note the message in their intro and [...]

31000-2009 Risk Management Standard

AS4801

In November 2009, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) introduced the ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management Standard. The standard provides universally accepted guidelines about generic risk management processes. The Risk Management Standard is intended to replace the many differing standards, which stretch across industries, regions, and subjects. Including information on both the ISO Catalogue and the [...]

Job Hazard Analysis – Assessing Training Needs – Part 1

Job Hazard Analysis – Assessing Training Needs – Part 1 By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield As with many trainers, we have been a given specific training topic to conduct along with a time limit to conduct said training. As a result of the limited time, we can only essentially tell the trainee the bare basics [...]

BP Safety and Risk Management Restructure

Dangerous Jobs

Following the Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster, a new, high powered Safety Division will be formed. Incoming CEO Bob Dudley yesterday said there were “lessons for us relating to the way we operate, the way we organise our company and the way we manage risk”. He said restructuring the “upstream business” would reinforce accountability for [...]

Risk Assessment Shooting Tigers ISO 31000

Risk Assessment Shooting Tigers

New book on risk assessment

How to Create a Culture For Risk Management

How to Create a Culture For Risk Management By Yahya Shakweh Within the business arena, it is well recognized that the higher the risk, the bigger the reward. One of the key roles of leadership within any organization is to define the levels of risks that can be taken and to draw a balance between [...]

Optimism – a trait of the lazy Risk Manager

Extract from and interesting article published by The Brief Group in their regular newsletter. Subscribe here The problem with most corporate management and compliance frameworks (e.g. workplace health and safety, food safety, employee relations, information security systems) is that they are written by optimists. There is an expectation, inherent in their design that users of [...]

How to complete a risk assessment

The saying “do a risk assessment” seems to role of the tongue of most people these days and most people respond with “sure, no worries” while they slink off thinking “what tha?”. The task is not as daunting as it sounds ans is simply a way to get a better understanding of a task and [...]

Free Risk Assessment Form

Checklists

Use this form to describe, analyse, assess, rate and control hazards or risks. Includes a 1 to 25 risk matrix as commonly required by Govt departments. Download Word version here:

Blank Risk Assessment Form

Example of a blank risk assessment form from YHA used to assess risks associated with school excursions. Download Here:

Free Task Analysis and Risk Assessment Software

On Safe Lines have released their new TIRA free software. TIRA stands for Task Inventory and Risk Assessments and is a comprehensive risk management and analysis program, designed to be used by both the safety professional and those with part time safety responsibilities. The screen shots and description look very impressive, particularly for a free [...]

Basic Risk and Hazard Register Template

Hazard Register

Basic Risk Register template for recording site hazards and risks including planned controls and before and after risk ratings. Download Here:

Risk Assessment Training

Found this really good risk management training outline published online by SMARTSAFE Download Here: TABLE OF CONTENTS PREPARATION INTRODUCTION LEARNING OUTCOMES HAZARD AND RISK RISK ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT Establishing The Team Segregation Of Activities HAZARD IDENTIFICATION TYPES OF HAZARDS CATEGORIES OF HAZARDS DETERMINING THE RISK LEVEL Assessing The Risk Using Rapid Ranking THE [...]

Risk Control Cost Justification Calculator

To complement of very popular (over 11,100 downloads!) Electronic Risk Score Calculator (or nomogram) we have just introduced the Riskex Electronic Cost Justification Calculator. Still a few refinements required and maybe a few bugs but we’ll wait until we get some feed back before perfecting it. Please remember that this tool is just an aid [...]

Cost Justification Calculator

Here is an example of the cost justification calculator that everyone is asking for. It is used to determine the relative effectiveness of various risk or hazard controls. Now available in electronic form HERE

COSO Cube

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act imposes various governance, accounting and reporting standards on US public companies and their subsidiaries. It also applies to Australian and other non-US companies issuing and registering securities in the US.. Sarbanes-Oxley requires that companies use a suitable, recognized control framework for evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls. Most U.S. companies now use [...]

Risk Management Training

I had a chance the other day to sit in on an Introduction to Risk Management Course being run at a clients premises. The trainer was a consultant from InConsult. It was one of the most interesting courses Ive attended for some time and there was not one bored face or Blackberry in the room. [...]

National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines

Emergency Procedures

National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines (more info from their website HERE) This DRAFT is one of the simplest, yet all encompassing, guides to the principles of risk management and the risk management tools involved that I have come across. Produced for Emergency Services personnel as part of the the National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines (NERAG) [...]

Free guide to implementing ISO 31000