
Risk! Engineers Talk Governance
Due Diligence and Risk Engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss governance in an engineering context.
Richard & Gaye are co-directors at R2A and have seen the risk business industry become very complex. The OHS/WHS 'business', in particular, has turned into an industry, that appears to be costing an awful lot of organisations an awful lot of money for very little result.
Richard & Gaye's point of difference is that they come from the Common Law viewpoint of what would be expected to be done in the event that something happens. Which is very, very different from just applying the risk management standard (for example).
They combine common law and risk management to come to a due diligence process to make organisations look at what their risk issues are and, more importantly, what they have to have in place to manage these things.
Due diligence is a governance exercise. You can't always be right, but what the courts demand of you is that you're always diligent
Episodes
How to Prevent Catastrophic Project Blowouts

Difficult Conversations Engineers need to have about Risk

Risk Management & Negligence - Due Diligence Essentials for Engineers

Season 4 Wrap: Due Diligence as a Governance Process, Dam Safety & the Relevance of Due Diligence

Bush Fire Risk, Due Diligence & Mitigation Controls

Due Diligence in the Electrical & Power Industry

Obligations for Engineers under WHS/OHS legislation

Due Diligence in Marine Pilotage

Due Diligence Essentials for Engineers - R2A's New Booklet

Laws of Man vs Laws of Nature in the Due Diligence Context

Aviation Industry & the Application of the Due Diligence Process

AI (Artificial Intelligence), Robots, Controls & Liability

The Judicial Need for Reliable Knowledge and to Demonstrate Causation.

Major IT Outage - Criticality & Resilience

Wrap of Season 3 - Criticality & Design and Climate Change Design Options

Town Planning Disasters - The need for consquence planning, not risk planning

How Standards stifle innovation

Risk Appetite versus Zero Harm & the Confusion at Board levels

Code of Practice & WHS/OHS Confusion

Art & Engineering - How being a great artist relates to the engineer's roles

Control & Reasonableness in WHS/OHS Legislation

R2A's Due Diligence Process - Why it works

Design trumps Risk Assessment - Our VCAT Hearing Success (as Expert Witnesses)

Design Analysis not Risk Analysis

Season 2 Wrap Up: De-engineering of Technical Roles and Engineering Education & Philosophy
