Risk is the new benchmark: Organisations are moving at a faster rate Need a systematic, quantitative measure Risk is becoming the new benchmark for success Objective, Repeatable Helps to make better, more informed decisions

1. Risk AssessmentRisk Assessment

2. Risk is the new BenchmarkRisk is the new Benchmark
• Organisations are moving at a faster rate
• Need a systematic, quantitative measure
• Risk is becoming the new benchmark for success
– Objective,
– Repeatable
– Helps to make better, more informed decisions

3. Risk comes from Hazards andRisk comes from Hazards and
HarmsHarms
• Hazards = A situation that poses a level of threat to life,
health, property or environment (an undesired event)
• Harms = resulting damages from the Hazard
• Risk = The potential that a chosen action or activity will
lead to an undesirable event
• Control = A method of evaluating potential losses and
taking action to reduce or eliminate the potential for an
undesired event

5. Scale of risk – Severity and FrequencyScale of risk – Severity and Frequency
Define the level of Risk on a pre-defined Scale:
Severity Description
Catastrophic Likely to result in death
Critical Potential for severe injury
Moderate Potential for moderate injury
Minor Potential for minor injury
Negligible No significant risk of injury

6. Scale of risk – Severity and FrequencyScale of risk – Severity and Frequency
Define the level of Risk on a pre-defined Scale:
Frequency Description
Frequent Hazard likely to occur
Probable Hazard will be experienced
Occasional Some manifestations of the hazard are
likely to occur
Remote Manifestations of the hazard are
possible, but unlikely
Improbable Manifestations of the hazard are very
unlikely

7. Build a Risk Matrix
• The Risk Matrix: tool used in the Risk Assessment
process, it allows the severity of the risk of an event
occurring to be determined.
• Graphically displays the total of each of the
hazards/harms that contribute to the risk
– Severity = X
– Probability = Y
– Risk Score = XY
Y
X
RISK
(XY)

8. Minimal
Fatal
Unlikely Probable

9. ““Grey areas”Grey areas”
• Risks are not always “black and white”
• When defining risk management, some organisations find
it convenient to categorise risks into the following three
regions:
• The broadly acceptable region (Generally Acceptable - GA)
• The ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) region; and
• The intolerable region (Generally Unacceptable - GU)

10. GU
GA
ALARP
But how many zones?
How to determine ALARP?
Probability
Severity
Generally Acceptable
As Low As Reasonably Practicable
Generally
Unacceptable

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我 共同的未来们 ……
How to Apply The Risk MatrixHow to Apply The Risk Matrix
• Use Risk Assessment to filter adverse events
• What is the risk of the event, versus when it came into the
system
• Prioritize events by their RISK not their due date
• Resolve low-priority events at the source where they
are found
• Minor Complaints/Non-conformances/Audit
findings
• Events with little impact can be immediately
resolved

12. 生 旅游态 ，
人类回 自然，保 境，筑造我 共同的未来让 归 护环 们 ……
How to Apply The Risk MatrixHow to Apply The Risk Matrix
• Risk Mitigation: Applies risk assessment to
verification and effectiveness in Corrective Action
• Are we reducing the risk to the right level?
• Are we truly mitigating risk of recurrence?

13. Where’s
the Risk
here?

14. ConclusionConclusion
• Risk Assessment is great tool for making informed decisions
• Understand your Hazards and Harms within the organisation
• Build a scale that makes sense to your organisation

15. ConclusionConclusion
• Plot the scale on a graph to form a Risk Matrix
• Determine where the acceptable and unacceptable risk lie
• Then, vet that matrix with real-world historical examples
• Use the Risk Matrix as a tool within a Risk team to filter
adverse events by their Risk

16. Summary
• How can we get to where we really want to be?
• Create strategies which
• Draw on organisation strengths
• Mitigates organisation weaknesses
• Exploit all opportunities
• Combat threats
• Identify organisational risks during appraisal phase.
Thank you – Ali Engelbrecht