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Top Reasons for the Implementation of Management Systems

By: chris howe

There are a number of reasons why organizations undertake a risk management systems implementation. Here are several commonly stated reasons why risk mangement systems are required in todays's organizations.

Risk management systems analysis is a requirement. This is by far the most prevalent reason for performing risk management systems analyses. While requirements help drive behavior, which can be a good thing, this alone is not a great reason for performing safety analyses. Only doing something because it is required, and not understanding why it is necessary, will result in an effort that will likely be less than the best possible. Requirements tend to define the minimum standards required. Rather than just meeting the minimum standards, risk management systems efforts should try to achieve the best possible results. In addition, many requirements-based safety efforts are reactive in nature, and are not forward-looking, and therefore may fail to uncover problems with new technologies and operations.

Risk management systems helps build consensus. While we may not be able to obtain consensus on design through risk management systems efforts, this should not be the only reason for performing these analyses. If we are doing the wrong thing, consensus will assure that everyone involved will make a bad decision, and we may reach a catastrophic outcome much faster with consensus. For example, if we all agree to climb the Mount Redoubt volcano, we have successfully achieved consensus; unfortunately, this consensus approach would do little to improve our personal safety.

Risk management systems helps us communicate better. It is true that systematic efforts do assist in communication. Experience has shown that through risk management systems efforts, professionals in many different disciplines are brought together and are forced to communicate. So while communication is important, it should not be the only goal of risk management systems. Alaska's group fishing trips could accomplish the same goal of improving communications with a lot less effort than that of a risk management systems process.

Risk management systems are structured. The structure provided by risk management systems analyses does in fact help allow us to understand the system, and is a benefit. And without a structured process we may fail to identify hazards and assess risk. But the structure in and of itself does not provide us with a benefit to safety. There are plenty of structured methods that do nothing to help us reduce risk; music is a structured activity that likely won't help us reduce the potential for harm in complex systems.

Risk management systems is used by many organizations. It is true that risk management systems are an accepted methodology for assessing the potential for harm. However, the current global economic crisis showed that risk is not necessarily reduced just because everyone uses the same accepted methodology. Prior to the crisis, most financial analysts used accepted methodologies for assessing risk, and yet most were unable to foresee the crisis.

Risk management systems allows us to at least take some action. In the face of uncertainty and with high-risk activities, it is our nature to want to take action. However, misguided action is worse than no action at all.

The objective of risk management systems is simple, and yet difficult. The primary objective of risk management systems is to prevent harm and protect assets.

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