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Risk Management
109 articles
Risk Treatment: 5 Blind Spots That Leave High-Consequence Exposure Unmanaged
A risk register can look complete while a serious exposure remains active. This diagnostic examines five blind spots that weaken risk treatment, from vague ownership and untested barriers to residual-risk decisions that never reach the people who control the work.
How to Run a Field Risk Escalation Huddle Before High-Risk Work Starts
A field risk escalation huddle turns uncertainty into an explicit operating decision. This eight-step guide helps supervisors and risk owners describe the actual exposure, test critical controls, define escalation authority, rehearse failure response, and verify the first execution in the field.
Sago Mine: How a Rescue Assumption Became a Fatality Pathway
The January 2, 2006 Sago Mine explosion killed 12 miners and exposed a risk-management failure that is easy to repeat: treating a rescue arrangement as evidence of readiness. The case shows how leaders can test emergency barriers before a critical event forces the answer.
Control Reliability Explained: 4 Evidence Tests Before Leaders Trust a Safety Barrier
A safety control is reliable only when its design fits the hazard, the resources are available, people can execute it under pressure, and leaders verify the result in the field. This explainer separates control reliability from paperwork compliance and gives EHS managers four evidence tests for better risk decisions.
Risk Matrices: 9 Distortions That Make Critical Hazards Look Acceptable
A risk matrix can support a decision, but it can also make serious exposure look controlled. This diagnostic shows plant managers and EHS leaders where matrix logic fails and how to compare the score with field evidence.
How to Run a Safety-Critical Change Review Before Startup in 14 Days
A safety-critical change can create new exposure even when the project appears complete. This guide gives plant managers, engineering leads, and EHS professionals an eight-step review that connects the change to hazards, controls, training, emergency readiness, and field verification before startup.
Management of Change: 5 Myths That Let Temporary Decisions Outlive Risk Review
Management of change is often treated as an approval form, yet temporary decisions can alter critical controls, handovers, staffing, and emergency readiness long after the original urgency has passed. This article challenges five common myths and gives risk leaders a practical standard for keeping changed conditions visible, owned, verified, and either restored or formally adopted.
HAZOP vs Bow-Tie vs FMEA: Which Method Fits Your Risk Decision?
HAZOP, Bow-Tie, and FMEA answer different risk questions. This comparison helps leaders choose the method that fits design review, barrier ownership, or equipment reliability decisions.
How a Risk Register Became a Decision System Across 30 Countries
A case-based account of how risk registers become useful when leaders connect each exposure to an operating decision, a control owner, and field evidence, drawing on Andreza Araujo's work across more than 250 cultural transformation projects and 30 countries.
Risk Appetite Explained: 4 Decision Tests for Operational Safety
Risk appetite becomes actionable when leaders translate it into four decision tests for stopping work, governing temporary controls, escalating uncertainty, and funding stronger protection.