Download our white paper, “Are You Being Bluewashed?” – your guide to safeguarding operations and building water resilience. Water quality... The post Are You Being “Bluewashed”? Uncovering the Hidden Water Risks to Protect Your Business appeared first on The Risk Edge Group ..read more

Water resilience is more than a buzzword, it’s a necessity in today’s increasingly uncertain world. Ensuring water systems can withstand,... The post Future-Proof your Business with Water Resilience Strategies appeared first on The Risk Edge Group ..read more

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Unlock the Key to Safety: Understanding and Managing Legionella Risk A recent outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Melbourne’s west and continuing events... The post Understanding and Managing Legionella Risk appeared first on The Risk Edge Group ..read more

As published by the Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® (CERM) Academy, Issue #272. 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. Risk Control While contemporary drinking water quality management frameworks are all based on risk, and the ..read more

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 need ..read more

For regulators, auditees and auditors, the materiality of water quality compliance audit grades is always an interesting subject. The level of materiality, can in some cases, mean the difference between a fine or just a noted, non-compliance, with no major outcomes on risk objectives or licence compliance. In this joint The Risk Edge Group, D2K Information, Wai Comply White Paper – The Risk Edge Group founder and Principal Risk Analyst, Dr Annette Davison, provides her top tips for understanding and assessing materiality, in conjunction with Wai Comply co-founder, Matt Parkinson. If you are ju ..read more

Cite: Dyson, M. and Davison, A. (2020) Risk-based, Best Practice Principles for Drinking Water Quality Regulation. The Risk Edge Group Blog Article: 10 August 2020. https://riskedge.com.au/risk-based-best-practice-principles-for-drinking-water-quality-regulation/ 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 ..read more

According to the definition in ISO 31000, risk is the impact of uncertainty on [achieving] your objectives. Of course, this impact can be both negative or positive. ISO 31000 states the following: “Clause 6.4.2 Risk identification: The organisation should identify risks, whether or not their sources are under its control. Clause 6.4.3 Risk analysis: The effectiveness of existing controls.” Understanding what controls you need to have in place to prevent or minimize negative and optimise positive outcomes, underpins an effective, objective-based risk management culture. So, taking another look ..read more

Perhaps you supply water to high-risk groups such as children, older people, or immunocompromised individuals. Always bear in mind that a compromised plumbing system can detrimentally affect the quality and safety of the water it delivers, risking illness or even a fatality among at-risk groups. Many outbreaks of waterborne disease can originate from a distribution or plumbing system, for instance Legionnaires disease or salmonellosis. Drinking water deteriorates between the treatment plant and point of use. A recent study by Li et al (2022) of one system in the Netherlands traced how changes ..read more