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This course takes about 40 minutes. You can stop at any point and pick up where you left off.
It is for anyone who has to think about risk at work, whether you own a risk, sit on a committee, fill in a register or simply want to understand what everyone is talking about. No prior knowledge is assumed.
What it covers
- What risk actually means, and why the definition matters
- The process that every risk standard shares
- How risk gets found, analysed and evaluated and where that goes wrong
- Controls, the hierarchy and why controls decay
- Critical controls and bow ties, as used in mining and other high-consequence industries
- The failure modes nobody puts in the textbook
Where it comes from
The backbone is ISO 31000, the international risk management standard, so this works wherever you are. For high-consequence work it draws on the ICMM approach to critical control management, developed by the mining industry after a series of events where organisations discovered they had hundreds of controls and no idea which ones actually mattered.
What it is not
It is an introduction. It will give you the vocabulary and the shape of the process, and it will not qualify you to own a material risk or verify a critical control. Those carry real accountabilities and have their own courses.
It is general information, not advice on your organisation’s obligations, and it does not replace your own risk management framework.