IntroductionAs we face hazards with the potential to harm and damage ourselves, our organisation and our environment, it is crucial to be able to manage these hazards. Hazard identification is one way to manage the hazards we are facing. Being able to identify the hazards in our daily life, will help us to manage them …
IntroductionHazards are to be found everywhere. They have the potential to affect our organisations in many negative ways, and therefore we should ensure that we can manage them in the best way possible. To be able to do so, it is crucial to be able to identify which hazards our organisation is facing. Many approaches …
It does not have to be time consuming, complicated and expensive. But unfortunately it is most of the time… Especially in complex projects!
That is why we use risk management tools!
In risk management there is a number of tools, or methods, one can use to identify, rate and mitigate risk. These methods are a combination of simple and inexpensive ones, such as a brainstorming exercise. To the more complicated, expensive and time consuming ones, such as organisational risk governance and organisational risk communication.
Within the field of Risk Management, there are various ways of identifying risks. Depending on the way in which you wish to realize these risks, there are certain risk classification systems to choose from. One of these is the FIRM scorecard, which at some points serves the same purpose as the Business Impact Model. Both …
This article describes how safety risk management is a key component of any safety management system and involves identifying safety hazards to your operations and assessing the risks of mitigation. To successfully identify hazards you should think laterally and be unencumbered by past ideas and experience Introduction The term “safe” Those involved in disaster management …
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With educational examples, our goal is to present the reader with situations or projects where a risk became an incident. By analysing what went wrong and what should have been done, we can hopefully provide valuable knowledge to the reader.
What went wrong
In these educational examples we present a case where a specific project or part of the projects have gone wrong. We try to examine where the “point-of-no-return” is (i.e., where the risk became an incident).
What should have been done
Then, when we know where the project went wrong, we will go back in time before the “point-of-no-return” and see what could have been done differently to avoid the risk becoming an incident.
What can we learn
By doing so, we can provide valuable knowledge and “experience” to, hopefully, get your critical thinking going, so you can avoid the same incidents in your projects!
Introduction There are numerous controls to avoid and reduce the risks to your project or organization. Though the risk is not always avoidable, there are ways to alter it. Below are proven controls used to alter risk. Controls - Engineering Controls: these are controls that reduce risk using engineering methods. This can include: 1. How …
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Preparedness Starts with You! Risk is everywhere. From the moment you get in your car to go to work until the moment you swallow your last midnight snack before bed, you encounter different risks of different severities. It is also becoming increasingly obvious that both the number and severity of emergencies and disasters people face …
When cooperating across sections there may arise a line of potential problems, mainly in regards to the communicative aspect. These problems arise as a result of the clashing of different expertise, authorities and cultural differences. In relation to this a professor within the field of management by the name of Jody H. Gittel has come …
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