Risk Compliance And Governance Courses

Risk compliance and governance courses are often bundled and taken in whatever order they appear in the catalogue. The order matters more than people expect.

Risk first. Everything else rests on being able to describe what could go wrong, how likely it is and what reduces it. Someone without that vocabulary cannot engage with the other two.

Compliance second, because obligations are easier to understand once you can see the risk each one is meant to address. Learned first, compliance becomes a list of rules to memorise.

Governance last. It is about authority, escalation and accountability, and it is nearly meaningless to someone who has not yet thought about what is being escalated or why.

Taken in reverse, which is the common pattern, all three feel abstract and people finish them without much changing.

ASIC publishes governance guidance. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s compliance training courses and GRC system.