Risk Management Best Practices
Risk management best practices are usually written as design principles. Most registers are designed adequately and maintained badly.
Four habits separate the ones that stay useful.
A named owner per risk. Not a department. A person who can actually influence it.
A review date that arrives. With someone accountable for the review having happened, not just for the risk.
Controls described as things that exist. A control nobody can point to is an intention.
Escalation thresholds set in advance. So a risk moving to a given level triggers something automatically rather than depending on judgement in the moment.
A register reviewed once a year is a historical document for eleven months out of every twelve, and it is usually reviewed in the month nobody has time.
Safe Work Australia covers the duty to manage risks. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
See Sentrient’s risk management system and GRC system.
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