R2A System of Work

EEA Risk & Liability Management Short Course

This course provides an overview of risk philosophy, existing and emerging risk management techniques, key tools and techniques to identify, manage and minimise technical risk. It explains the strengths and weaknesses of each technique and when the use of each is appropriate.

Day one covers Risk & Reliability Concepts, Risk Management Paradigms & Safety Cases, Legal Liability, Causation and Risk Criteria. Day two covers Top Down Techniques, Bottom Up Techniques, Modelling Techniques and Generative Techniques.

Risk & Liability Management Course:

  Melbourne 7 - 8 May 2009 and 17 - 18 September 2009
  Perth 23 - 24 June 2009 and 18 - 19 November 2009
  Sydney 25 - 26 March 2009 and 26 - 27 August 2009
  Brisbane 27 - 28 May 2009 and 21 - 22 October 2009
  Adelaide 4 - 5 August 2009
  Canberra 16 - 17 June 2009

For information about fees, how to register and other courses available, contact Engineering Education Australia at http://www.eeaust.com.au or on phone (03) 9326 9777 or fax (03) 9326 9888.


RISK & LIABILITY MANAGEMENT COURSE OUTLINE:

Day 1 Outline

Risk & Reliability Concepts

Insurance risk versus speculative risk philosophies; business risk versus safety risk; historical perspective; relationship of risk to reliability and quality.

Risk Management Paradigms & Safety Cases

Asset management approaches like HazOp & RCM; threat based SWOT or vulnerability assessments; market based risk as variance approaches; good practice vs hazard based risk management; computer simulated neo-Darwinism; risk culture approaches.

Legal Liability

Common law principles & due diligence; inquisitorial versus adversarial legal systems; human law versus laws of nature; adversarial legal system contradictions; the consequence driven nature of the courts.

Causation

A view of the future of risk: minimalist legal human error approaches; time & energy sequence approaches; culture/hazard versus vulnerability versus pathogen based; rise of the risk society in a context of globalisation.

Risk Criteria

Use of probabilistic criteria in Australian jurisdiction; societal risk criteria; environmental criteria; insurance criteria; ethical criteria.

Day 2 Outline

Top Down Techniques

SWOT assessments vs threat and vulnerability assessments; risk characterisation systems & AS/NZS 4360:2004; risk profiling processes & residual risk allocation; use & limits of risk audit systems. Enterprise vs project risk profiling. Risk Ranking Risk registers; acute OHS hazards; property underwriting; integrated risk based investment approaches.

Bottom Up Techniques

Technical Risk Assessments Techniques HazOps; FMEA, FMECA & RCM; QRA (Quantified Risk Assessments); HACCPs; different approaches.

Modelling Techniques

Reliability block diagrams; cause-consequence modelling (fault & event trees); threat barrier diagrams; risk based availability modelling; human reliability analysis.

Generative Techniques

Generative Interview Techniques; Generative Solution Techniques; Independent Rapid Risk Reporting Techniques

 

Course Presenter:

Mr Richard Robinson
BE BA FIEAust

Director Risk & Reliability Associates (R2A). Richard is a career risk engineer and international expert in the development of risk assessment, management and minimisation systems; principal author and tutor of EEA postgraduate unit on Risk and Liability Management.