Season’s Greetings from Riskope! Voeux de Saison par Riskope! Auguri di Stagione da Riskope. Buen Fin de Año y Feliz 2015 CLICK THE PICTURE TO VIEW THE MOVIE! This year Riskope has decided to celebrate the Year End by proposing an animated Tale of King Provvidus, Riskopius, his trustworthy advisor and ORE, his faithful method. Season’s Greetings from Riskope! Voeux de Saison par Riskope! Auguri di Stagione da Riskope. Buen Fin de Año y Feliz 2015. This communication project has taken…
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Looking Back To Move Forward – The Risk Analysis Legacy of The TITANIC: Riskope thanks Evelyn Ramsey for this interesting post. This post is less a history of the disaster of the Titanic and more an insight into the incident’s legacy. Indeed the incident left to future risk analysis professionals a number of unsolved questions. We used public sources for all data and information and we identify this where relevant. Looking Back To Move Forward – The Risk Analysis Legacy…
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Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel. The Answer to specific requests. Riskope were indeed recently asked to provide a comprehensive five day course addressing Risk and Crisis Management, Risk Based Decision Making, Project Evaluation for top managers and key personnel at Investment Banks, Oil & Gas, Energy and Transportation. Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel. Although companies willing to commit the resources…
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We have been writing our last two posts in Italian, commenting on the “poor Italian risk-culture” (we were not talking about politics, but on cases like Taranto wide-spread contamination or L’Aquila earthquake sentence), but now we have another interesting subject of conversation linked to hurricane Sandy and its consequences to N.J. Trains. We are not going to discuss, as we do not trust “reporting scoops” in general, if the trains were actually flooded or damaged by some other hurricane-linked phenomenon;…
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Hazards, Safety and Security Management of Mining (and other Natural Resources) Access Roads are becoming very important issues. Indeed, off-site road transportation (access roads) to remote mining (coal copper, zinc, and other natural resources) operations (public, private or semi-private) poses a series of unique challenges to people in charge of their Safety, Security and Hazard Management. This course is based on real-life cases This course draws information from a number of real-life studies performed on this type of road by the…
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In Riskope’s day to day review jobs we notice a number of Pitfalls in Risk (Management) approaches. For example: Deficiencies and sometimes, to a lesser extent, excess in defining scenarios included in the analysis. The apparently “desperate need to use precise numbers” when dealing to quantitative analyses. That plays in favor of excessively fuzzy and confusing qualitative or indexed approaches. Users use them with the excuse that anyways “numbers will be wrong”. The irresistible need to delve into exceedingly complex…
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Operation Risk Awareness and Preparedness Rating (ORAPR) is a simple form following a multiple choice questionnaire format, to be filled by a key person or a committee well informed about the management practices and controls driving the company, division, operation, project to be evaluated. The benefits for the evaluated entity are considerable: the Operation Risk Awareness and Preparedness Rating (ORAPR) constitutes a very fast, easy, repeatable and inexpensive approach revealing global strengths and weaknesses of the management and leadership of…
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