blog Velocity: Why Speed Matters in Risk Management Beyond likelihood and consequence, risk velocity measures how fast an event escalates once controls fail. This post explains why speed of escalation should shape how you design and test controls for high-consequence work.
blog Understanding Control Failure Not all controls fail the same way. This post introduces Control Failure Analysis, the questions to ask about fail-safes and detection, and why the speed of a control's failure determines how critical it really is.
blog Risk 101: Understanding the Basics of Risk Management A foundational guide to risk management covering ISO 31000, the hierarchy of control, SFAIRP, risk appetite, and the difference between basic and complex risk assessment methods like bowtie analysis and HAZOP.
blog Unconceivable Risks: Overlooking the Unimaginable Organisations often dismiss risks simply because they haven't happened before. This post examines how culture, ego-driven leadership, and thin consultation create blind spots, drawing on the Quebec Bridge collapse and Pike River Mine disaster.
blog When Was the Last Time You Reviewed Your Risks? Risk registers go stale without regular review. This post makes the case for broadbrush risk workshops that validate existing risks, surface emerging ones, and align senior leaders across safety, financial, and psychosocial risk domains.
blog Psychosocial Hazards: The People We Sometimes Forget Psychosocial risk frameworks often overlook the first responders, investigators, and safety professionals who deal with the aftermath of serious incidents. This post argues for higher-order controls beyond EAPs to protect them too.
blog Introduction to Psychosocial Risk Management and WHS Compliance Psychosocial hazards now carry the same legal duty of care as physical hazards. This post covers WHS obligations, the cost of psychological injury claims, ISO 45003, and what a compliant psychosocial risk register should contain.
blog Introduction to Risk Bowtie Analysis Bowtie diagrams give a clear, visual picture of how a hazard escalates into an incident and which preventive and mitigating controls sit either side of it. This post introduces the method and its role in meeting WHS compliance requirements.
blog Are Your SWMS in Place for Compliance or Risk Management? Many Safe Work Method Statements are generic, unreviewed, and never genuinely read by the workers who sign them. This post sets out the hard questions to ask to tell whether your SWMS are real risk management tools or just compliance paperwork.
blog Rethinking "Dropped or Falling Objects" in Working at Heights Risk Management Strategies Most dropped-object strategies stop at tools and equipment, missing stored materials, hung-up loads, structural failures, and environmental triggers. This post broadens the framework and sets out practical engineering and administrative controls.