How far away is death? Don’t walk a tightrope (risk management)
You’ve seen people shortcut it — you know, whether attempting a tightrope “fix” to get something done, or another impossibly bad decision strategy, right?
Consider the fallout and potentially serious repercussions of acting on an impulse to resolve a problem, with risks as potentially treacherous as walking a tightrope.
So, how do you avoid bad decision-making, thus avoiding the proverbial tightrope?
When should you compromise safety? Of course, the only correct answer is, resoundingly, never.
Yet, we encounter compromises of safety in the workplace every day: shortcuts, error-prevention violations, and/or well-intended actions in the effort to improve performance efficiency.
It’s easy to become distracted on the job — whether you’re performing routine job functions or something outside normal operating functions — perhaps, especially for less familiar tasks.
Why should you take this risk management course?
Whether a beginner or advanced, you can conduct better risk assessments by increasing your knowledge using proven, effective risk management processes and tools! Suppose you have responsibilities for providing leadership, advisory, consultative, training, auditing, incident review, root cause analysis, or continuous improvement in health and safety, environmental, or quality. In that case, this course is for you.
This course is compatible with your existing risk management tools or practices and will enable you to gain practical skills and knowledge in proven risk and opportunity methods and tools. The techniques in this course enrich your current processes and work for companies of every size and across all industries. This course is a live, virtual participative learning experience with interactive engagement through discussion, group & individual exercises & quizzes.
Risk & Opportunity Based Thinking (ROBT) & Risk & Opportunity Assessments (R&OA) are strongly promoted by the latest versions of ISO 31000 / ISO 45001 / ANSI Z10 / ISO 14001 / ISO 9001 / ANSI Z590.3 as definitely needed in every R&O-informed decision-making process.
About Risk Management Instructor, Jim Whiting
As an internationally renowned risk engineer and HSE expert, Jim Whiting has 40+ years
of experience in engineering and science applications to Risk Management, Health, Safety, & Environment, Incident/Accident Investigation, and Root Cause Analysis.
- Advises medium-to-large organizations in incident investigations, risk reviews, risk profiling, corporate RM policies, systems, and manuals
- Trains workers and managers in Australia & New Zealand, USA, Canada, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, and India.
- Studies extensively and presents papers on Incident Causation and Risk Management at conferences in the UK, Europe, South East Asia, and North America
- Holds a distinguished academic career in applied research of scientific and engineering applications in medicine, clinical & OHS&E safety, and risk management
- A contributory committee member that wrote the first international risk management standard ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management – Guidelines. It is now the USA Standard – ANSI/ASSP/ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management – Guidelines and CAN/CSA/ISO 31000
- An expert witness in over 300 legal inquiries, including investigations of major accidents for companies and government agencies
- Served as Senior Lecturer Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Queensland University of Technology for 18 years
- Honorary Life Member of the Risk Engineering Society of Australia, Asia Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organisation (APOSHO), and former National CEO of the National Safety Council of Australia (NSCA)
Jim knows much more than what’s in the risk management standard — don’t miss a chance to learn from a leading expert!
