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Risk! Engineers Talk Governance

Risk! Engineers Talk Governance

著者： Richard Robinson & Gaye Francis
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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

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    Following their attendance at the recent forum hosted by Engineers Australia's Risk Engineering Society and the Institute of Strategic Risk Management they unpack the big questions it raised about resilient infrastructure.

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    They discuss why resilience can't be managed in silos, how it means different things to different people, and how a due diligence and SFAIRP approach can shift resilience from a reactive response to a proactive strategy.

    If you’d like us to cover a specific topic or have any feedback we’d love to hear from you. Email admin@r2a.com.au.

    For further information on Richard and Gaye’s consulting work with R2A, head to https://www.r2a.com.au, where you’ll also find their booklets (store) and a sign-up for their quarterly newsletter to keep informed of their latest news and events.

    Gaye is also founder of Australian women’s safety workwear company Apto PPE https://www.aptoppe.com.au.
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    In this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis how AI in Risk Management?

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    The conversation covers the parallels between AI and Monte Carlo simulation (great for likely scenarios, unreliable for rare critical events), the growing wave of fabricated legal citations produced by AI tools, and why the common law system itself mirrors how large language models operate.

    Gaye and Richard then bring the discussion back to governance and what does responsible AI use look like for boards and organisations? Who carries liability when a decision is based on AI output? And how do you ensure the sources AI cites are actually real?

    They conclude by agreeing that AI is a powerful tool for gathering information faster than ever before, but it demands that essential second layer of human thought, verification, and documented decision-making.

    They reiterate that thinking, and SFAIRP, is hard.

    If you’d like us to cover a specific topic or have any feedback we’d love to hear from you. Email admin@r2a.com.au.

    For further information on Richard and Gaye’s consulting work with R2A, head to https://www.r2a.com.au, where you’ll also find their booklets (store) and a sign-up for their quarterly newsletter to keep informed of their latest news and events.

    Gaye is also founder of Australian women’s safety workwear company Apto PPE https://www.aptoppe.com.au.
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    13 分
  • SFAIRP: Moral Imperative vs Commercial Reality

    SFAIRP: Moral Imperative vs Commercial Reality
    2026/03/01

    In this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss this season’s theme of SFAIRP: Moral Imperative versus Commercial Reality and that SFAIRP is hard.

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    • Why leaving the "i" out of SFAIRP matters more than you might think.
    • The danger of delaying design decisions until elimination options are no longer viable.
    • The misuse of HAZOP as a substitute for early-stage critical hazard thinking.
    • Why the WHS legislation may actually be trying to bring creativity and innovation back into engineering.

    The season will also cover topics on AI and the human effort required to verify it, the integration of the risk curve, risk language and the creeping rigidity in how terms are used, resilient and adaptation strategies.

    If you’d like us to cover a specific topic or have any feedback we’d love to hear from you. Email admin@r2a.com.au.

    For further information on Richard and Gaye’s consulting work with R2A, head to https://www.r2a.com.au, where you’ll also find their booklets (store) and a sign-up for their quarterly newsletter to keep informed of their latest news and events.

    Gaye is also founder of Australian women’s safety workwear company Apto PPE https://www.aptoppe.com.au.
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