Risk! Engineers Talk Governance
Richard Robinson & Gaye Francis
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Due Diligence and Risk Engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss governance in an engineering context.
Richard & Gaye are co-directors at R2A and have seen the risk business industry become very complex. The OHS/WHS 'business', in particular, has turned into an industry, that appears to be costing an awful lot of organisations an awful lot of money for very little result.
Richard & Gaye's point of difference is that they come from the Common Law viewpoint of what would be expected to be done in the event that something happens. Which is very, very different from just applying the risk management standard (for example).
They combine common law and risk management to come to a due diligence process to make organisations look at what their risk issues are and, more importantly, what they have to have in place to manage these things.
Due diligence is a governance exercise. You can't always be right, but what the courts demand of you is that you're always diligent
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S7E11 Season 7 Wrap: The Growing Divide of Moral Imperative & Commercial Reality in WHS
Drop us a noteIn this season finale of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis reflect on Season 7's central theme of SFAIRP and the growing divide…
S7E10 Risk Curve: Modelling the “Ideal” Hazard
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss the mathematics behind risk modelling and why relying on heat maps…
S7E9 How Information Sharing Has Changed: Part 2 The Public Sphere
Drop us a noteIn the second of two episodes of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance on How Information Sharing has Changed, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss how the Public…
S7E8 How Information Sharing Has Changed: Part 1 SFAIRP Internet
Drop us a noteIn this first of two episodes of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis explore how the SFAIRP principle (So Far As Is Reasonably…
S7E7 Cunning vs Smart - Leadership in Work, Health & Safety
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk!Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis explore organisational Cunning versus Smart and why it matters deeply for…
S7E6 The Use of Ignorance in Health & Safety Decisions
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis explore the use of ignorance in health and safety decisions and how it’s…
S7E5 Delaying Decisions to Avoid SFAIRP
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss Delaying Decisions to avoid SFAIRP (So Far As Is Reasonably…
S7E4 New Zealand's Health & Safety Amendment Bill — Leading the Way
Drop us a noteIn this episode, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill and explore why New Zealand is leading the in…
S7E3 Resilient Infrastructure, Risk & Adaptation Strategies
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss Resilient Infrastructure, Risk & Adaptation…
S7E2 To Grok or Not? Using AI for Risk Management & Governance Decisions
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis how AI in Risk Management?Richard begins with a deep-dive into how large…
S7E1 SFAIRP: Moral Imperative vs Commercial Reality
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss this season’s theme of SFAIRP: Moral Imperative versus Commercial…
Season 6 Wrap: SFAIRP Complexities
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis wrap up Season 6 and the theme of SFAIRP complexities.Key season highlights…
S6E9 Two Types of Regulators
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss the two types of Regulators.They outline two fundamentally…
S6E9 Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace Regulations
Drop us a noteIn this special episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss psychosocial hazards in the workplace and the newly…
S6E8 Breaking SFAIRP down to three parts: So Far (SF). As Is (AI). Reasonably Practicable (RP)
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis break down the concept of SFAIRP "So Far As Is Reasonably Practicable" into…
S6E7 Formal Safety Assessments
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss Formal Safety Assessments. Key highlights include:A Formal Safety…
S6E6 Safety Culture (Revisited)
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis revisit the topic of Safety Culture.They review the work of Professor…
Could vs Should in Workplace Safety
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss Could vs Should in Workplace Safety. (Thanks Nick for your email,…
S6E4 Safety & Planning Law Complications
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss the complications of Safety Legislation & Planning Law.…
S6E3 Safe Work Australia's Best Practice Review of Model WHS Act & Regulations
Drop us a noteIn this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss Safe Work Australia's review of the model Work Health and Safety…
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Risk! Engineers Talk Governance has published 75 episodes since May 2023, covering topics in Business, Management.
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