Experience shows that successful risk communications always focuses on planned control measures and precautionary actions rather than on risks. Indeed, like in many other fields, actions speak louder than words. Because actions are what matters to the public. Thus, today, we explore our experience in tailings dam risk communication. In mining, oil and gas and other industries, people demand to know what preventative actions are foreseen. That is even if it is claimed that the likelihood of an accident and…
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Below are my views of the various presentations heard at CIM2017 in Montreal, during the Technical session towards improving environmental social disclosure NI43-101. Various talks, from various speakers, who shed some light on this multi-faceted theme were the trigger to this blogpost. Each one came from his or her own line of business and interest, including myself. Technical session towards improving environmental social disclosure NI43-101 There was a broad consensus that risks are not only “technical” matters any more. The…
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Canadian CEOs are looking to improve measurement, risks communication in various corporate areas as stated in a recent PWC report. Key risks rank as number 1 in the measurement category while organizational purpose and values are the first in the communication side. We are not surprised by this “changes”. CEOs are realizing that risk assessments based on FMEA, risk matrix, and other Probability Impact Graphs (we like to call them PIGs) only clutter their horizon, leaving them struggling, and realize…
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Repairing Leadership through Risk Management and Strategic Planning part II Riskope thanks Kelsey Fox for this interesting post In part I two methodologies named “critical self reflection” and “long run focus” were discussed. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT The most crucial component of both methodologies is execution. In their detailed risk management plan, Software Tech Support Center states, “…the real key to software risk management is planning and implementing your plan”. ForwardMetrics’ Chief Strategic Officer, Scott Warner, also emphasized the significance of execution in…
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Repairing Leadership through Risk Management and Strategic Planning Riskope thanks Kelsey Fox for this interesting post. In Leadership, Trust and Strategic Planning Hand in Hand? Not So Much, Pamela Stambaugh identifies the leadership skills whose absences are most detrimental to successful leadership. The neglected leadership principals include: long-run focus, critical self-reflection, active engagement, globalized thinking, and communication—however identification alone does not provide a tangible solution. The processes involved with risk management and strategic planning have benefits that extend beyond the…
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Riskope thanks Susan Zabolotniuk for this contribution. This post is a complement to the Oboni, Oboni, Zabolotoniuk paper entitled “Can we stop misrepresenting reality t the public” presented at the CIM 2013, Toronto conference. It is about Public Communication, Consultation & Participation in the mining industry. It is normal that experts will disagree in their analysis of results, such as with probability or frequency estimates. Yet when the public disagrees with an expert risk analysis they are dismissed as emotional or lacking…
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