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#343 – IMPROVE COVID RISK COMMUNICATIONS AND DECISION MAKING – ANNETTE DAVISON & IAN WRIGHT PH.D.

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Risk is the impact of uncertainty on achieving your objectives – the impact can be either positive or negative outcomes (ISO 31000). Governments have multiple objectives they have to meet – health and wellbeing, economic, environmental, ethical and so on. Each of these objectives essentially becomes a risk endpoint. The fundamental tenets of risk assessment are understanding the system (the context), understanding and assessing the risk (against your identified objectives), managing the risk and then monitoring whether the risk is actually controlled, and whether a further risk treatment needs to be applied.[1] Continue reading →

#305 – IS YOUR ORGANIZATION RISK READY: ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE – ANNETTE DAVISON

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As the world grapples with the issues of future water security and dwindling supplies of fresh water, more and more organisations and communities are scanning more broadly and reviewing how they can meet their future water needs. There is now an increased risk appetite for considering all water source options for drinking water production – beyond the traditional surface and ground water sources. In the water industry, we talk about the multiple barrier approach, that is, if one barrier fails, there is another in place as insurance. Continue reading →

#291 – BEST PRACTICES FOR DRINKING WATER QUALITY REGULATION – MEGAN DYSON & ANNETTE DAVISON

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Governance is an essential part of managing any resource, but if you were starting from a clean slate, what sort of framework would you use? If you already have regulation in place, how can you test if it is actually fit for purpose, including the social and cultural aspects of the time, and identify what needs to be changed?

ISO 31000 is the international standard of risk management. It applies to any aspect of risk (‘risk’ being ‘the effect of uncertainty on objectives’). Understanding risks associated with a statutory regime is just as important as understanding risks associated with any aspect of managing a coherent and functional society.

Using ISO 31000, we have thought about what the risks might be to achieving the objective of a fit-for-purpose legal and institutional framework for drinking water quality, and put forward some best practice principles to help address these risks. The principles will help you to assess your current legal framework or if you are starting from scratch, help you to craft a robust and contextually relevant legal framework for regulating drinking water quality. Continue reading →

#282 – REMOTE AUDITING: THE 3P’S – ANNETTE DAVISON & SARAH LODER & MATT PARKINSON

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COVID-19 has flipped everything on its head – including the way we undertake water quality management system audits. While ISO 19011 has provisions for remote auditing, it’s not something we normally do in undertaking water quality management system audits – usually we like to physically ‘go out in the field’ as part of our evidence gathering. Water supply systems have big infrastructure and a multitude of management and operational systems, which usually means a requirement for physical inspection. Continue reading →

#272 – YOU CAN REDUCE CONSEQUENCE – RIGHT? – ANNETTE DAVISON & SARAH LODER

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Over the years we’ve heard many people state that a control cannot modify consequence – especially in the public health space. Well, we’ve been considering this a lot lately and we just want to put a common sense lens on this statement. Here we have a look at the importance of understanding your controls in context, and understanding what controls modify which part of the Likelihood x Consequence equation.

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