Risk Management

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system

Safety Management Plan

Another article by legendary Safety Guru, George Robotham (www.ohschange.com.au). You can find more of his work at here: SAFETY REFLECTIONS George’s Safety Reflections-Number 6 The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system Have well developed internal standards of OHS excellence. Define what excellence in implementation of the standards will look like. Train [...]

Free Project Risk Management Kit

Free Downloads

You can download this kit for free, it includes a project management guidebook, risk assessment template, risk management process template, a risk plan template and a blank risk register for use with Excel. The Risk Management Kit is a set of templates used to identify, quantify, track and mitigate risks within a project. Each risk [...]

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 [...]

Managing Safety in the Workplace: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility

Managing Safety

Managing Safety in the Workplace: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility Traditionally, workplace safety has been the sole jurisdiction of safety and health professionals. However, due to the critical nature of the safety function and its impact on organization costs, it is better viewed as the joint responsibility of several functions, including Operations, Human Resources, Finance, and Risk [...]

Free Job Hazard Analysis Resources

JHA

Before you go any further on this site, please, do yourself a big favour….. late last year we came across this website devoted to Job Hazard Analysis. It has been put together by two devoted JHA gurus, they have extensive real world experience and they wrote THE book on the subject. Even if you have [...]

GPS Innovations – Smarter Fleet Safety Solutions

Road Safety

Smarter Fleet Solutions Businesses today have a legal responsibility under both common law and OH&S legislation to provide a safe working environment. This extends to any company using their vehicles or assets in the course of conducting business. A company needs to demonstrate that it is actively managing that process when company business is being [...]

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 [...]

A Year in Review – SafetyRisk Blog

Articles

When we started this blog in March 2010 the purpose was not to grand stand our opinions or intellectualise about the latest obscure theories. Rather, the safety and risk management world has been good to us and we have collected a stack of useful information and tools over the years. We wanted a forum where [...]

Dangerous Goods Risk Management

Dangerous Goods

[picappgallerysingle id="8995475"] Latest Newsletter From Noel Arnold From pumping petrol, to using aerosol air fresheners, dangerous goods (DG) are part of our every day life, but do we really understand how dangerous they are? DG are substances or articles that, because of hazardous chemical or physical properties, may pose a significant risk to people, property [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Safety Apps for iphone

Checklists

Just bought a new iphone (finally) and I’m looking for the best safety and risk management related applications for the iphone. I’m thinking things like checklists, audits and other handy tools. Please leave any advice in comments below.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

IIA Australia on ISO 31000 – Introducing a New Global Standard on Risk Management (Part A)

IIA Australia on ISO 31000 – Introducing a New Global Standard on Risk Management (Part A)

Michael Parkinson, Chairman of IIA Australia's Technic…

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 [...]

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 [...]

Risk Assessment and Safe Work Method Statement

Here is a really neat free template provided by Builders Net. The interactive form lets you choose hazards and appropriate safety control measures or insert your own from the extensive drop down boxes. This format complies with all requirements and relevant codes. Download Here:

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:

Training Accountabilities and Managing Contractors

Contractor Induction

RECENT ARTICLE FROM NOEL ARNOLD & ASSOCIATES: Principal Contractors have a Common Law duty of care to protect the health, welfare and safety of independent contractors. In brief, this duty of care includes: Reasonable care in employment of subcontractors/ independent contractors, ensuring they are competent to control their systems of work; duty to retain general supervision of [...]

LinkedIn – Facebook for Old People

Consultants

I have no idea how Facebook works. I tried LinkedIn a while ago and got as far as putting in my name before it all got too hard (and too personal). Anyway, out of the blue, someone I had worked with recently sent me a request to join my network (ie adding me as a [...]

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) [...]

How to do your own work method statement

Work Method Statements

Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) – Click here for more resources, examples and templates Work method statements are sometimes called Safe Operating Procedures or Job Safety Analysis forms depending on what state you are in. They fulfill a number of purposes. • They outline a safe method of work for a specific job. • They [...]

Remedial Slip Resistance Solutions

Workplace Safety

I’ve seen some of the recent work that Remedial Slip Resistance Solutions (RSR) have done and it is extremely impressive. These guys have over 30 years experience with floors including cleaning and slip resistance testing. I regularly use their other company (Slip Smart) for slip testing and advice on unsafe surfaces. For almost any problem [...]

Publish Your Safety and Risk Related Information

Articles

This site is only a few months old but already getting over 2000 hits per day and growing. We are always on the look out for new articles, tools (our risk score calculator has been downloaded over 10,000 times), checklists, new products to review, quality safety services and consultants or in fact any unique information [...]

Free guide to implementing ISO 31000

Following the publication of the ISO 31000 Risk Management Principles and Guidelines in 2009 a new document ‘A Structured Approach to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the Requirements of ISO 31000′ has been produced by The Institute of Risk Management, AIRMIC and Alarm which provide up to date guidance on the implementation of ERM in [...]

The New Risk Management Standard ISO 31000

Do you need to implement the new international Standard for Risk Management ISO 31000? The new international standard for risk management, ISO 31000 was published by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) in November 2009. ISO 31000 replaces and builds on AS/NZS 4360 (the Australian standard first published in 2004) to provide more practical, clear [...]

Risk Assessment Using ISO31000 and Bow-Tie Diagrams

National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines This 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 to assess disasters and emergencies, the principals and tools are relevant to any situation or workplace hazard. It [...]

WMS Development Toolkit for Contractors

Work Method Statements

In the Tool Kit you will find everything you need to help you develop a WMS. It is the reader’s responsibility to refer to legislation when reading this guide or using any of the tools in the tool kit to ensure the most up to date information is being used. Failing to do this could [...]

Free Manual Handling Risk Assessment Tool