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The Extraordinary Invisible World of Risk Type

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This article by Geoff Trickey, Managing Director of PCL, was first published in The Auditor. Think for a moment about the characteristics that set you apart and give you your unique identity. Is it your cautiousness, your careful planning, your ability to generate solutions, your openness to new experiences, your flexibility, your friendliness, your professionalism, your vigilance in following things through? Or, is it your independence or that you’re highly alert to signs that things may be going wrong? All of the above are personality characteristics, features that create a particular reputation for you amongst your friends, your colleagues and your […]

Risk Maturity Model

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Safety objectives cannot be fully realised through rule enforcement alone After the dramatic improvements of H&S using systematic procedural techniques, the quest for zero incident rates has remained illusive. Continuously tightening work place discipline and rigour can prove counter productive if it leads to a ‘them and us’ mentality characterised by mistrust, resentment and disaffection. Trust and mutual respect are only achieved through proper consideration of the human factor in the risk equation. Many different aspects of personality are related to risk taking; it is not a simple scale between ultra cautiousness and uncontrolled recklessness. To enrich organisational risk culture […]

Pedlam Risk – A Quick Update on Legal issues

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Pedlam Risk – a legal risk management consultancy – have kindly allowed us to feature their update on legal issues which may affect UK companies. For further information, head to www.pedlamrisk.com.   Q1. What is IPR – do we have any and do we need to bother about it? A: ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ are valuable assets of a business. They are abstract and hard to understand. Essentially they comprise: trademarks, patents, copyright, confidential know-how and design rights. Many exist automatically – such as copyright and know-how; others need registration – such as trademarks, patents and design rights. It is worth reviewing […]

Developing Resilience

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Organisations are complex systems with many moving parts. For example, shipping companies have shops, crews, vessel managers, cargo agents, HR managers, training managers. safety managers, Board Directors etc. These parts all interact with each other as well as externally with an outside world of regulatory, environmental, physical, economic and human factors. To remains successful, such systems must be able to maintain their stability in the face of constant perturbation both from outside and in.

The Mosaic of Risk Culture

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“Risk Culture”, with its implications of a deeply entrenched set of influential and effective risk attitudes, has an obvious appeal as a vehicle for risk-management, potentially opening doors to new possibilities and solutions. The practical difficulties associated with this approach arise from uncertainties concerning the definition of culture and, as a consequence, uncertainties about its mechanisms, its constituent parts, or its processes. When it comes to action, intervention or influence, it is difficult to know where the levers are, which to pull or how to get to grips with culture. This dilemma was summed up by the late Professor Peter […]

Risk Type, Gender and the Benefits of Balance

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Research, it is has been claimed, shows little difference in personality between genders. This has been disputed recently by others and our own research into personality based Risk Type shows that, although both genders include significant numbers of all the Risk Types, there are quite dramatic differences in the incidents of Risk Type for males and females (diagram 1). Amongst females there is a greater proportion of the more cautious Risk Types, and amongst males, a greater proportion of more adventurous and reckless Risk Types. But what is really interesting, is that if you combine male and female data, the […]