Risk Management

Unpredictable and unexpected events can present varying degrees of risk to your organisation, its people and the wider community. Risk can be defined as a hazard or danger which has the potential to cause loss and misfortune. It can be present in many different situations from bad lifting practices causing back injury to natural disasters affecting a large proportion of the community as was seen in the February 2009 Victorian bushfires.

In order to manage these risks we must be able to identify them in advance, assess the probability of the event occurring and determine ways of managing these risks.

The Hatlar Group has extensive experience in hazard and risk identification, assessment and management. We work on applying the principles detailed in the Australian and New Zealand Standard on Risk Management AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009, which involves a simple process of identifying the risks, analysing the risks, evaluation of what is acceptable risk, mitigate any unacceptable risks, and continuously review to ensure the mitigation strategies and circumstances do not alter what was previously acceptable.

Hatlar also recognise that all risk assessments or risk management strategies do not need to be complex. By applying simple and easy to understand questions for each situation a risk management strategy can be developed. These three questions are:

Is there a problem?
How do we fix it?
How do we know we have fixed it?

Hatlar can help you manage the risks in the following key areas:

Cooling Towers - to ensure they are managed according to desired legislation and standards to prevent potential sources of Legionnaires’ disease
Emergency Response – by preventative measures to minimise or eliminate the occurrence of spillages and other incidents.
Due Diligence – to evaluate projects, acquisitions, technology and property to ensure that prior to the completion of the transaction the risks associated with the activity being undertaken are clearly understood and considered.
Risk Assessments – of general projects, businesses, technologies, processes and systems or other activities that require the identification of foreseeable hazards that may arise and to assess the risk of harm that can result from the identified hazard