With a sturdy risk management programme in place this might not have happened.......

With a sturdy risk management programme in place this might not have happened.......

This is the first of a series which will give ACTUAL losses that could have been avoided if a sturdy risk management programme was in place, and in many cases how we have assisted....

Earlier this year, we were called in to assist a client who was having major construction works in progress on a single construction site. In Fiji we design buildings to withstand cyclones and earthquakes to the Fiji Building Codes, which in some cases refer to either New Zealand or Australian standards.

On this site our client engaged Australian consultants, and they, mistakenly, appeared to design all the works to Australian standards. Only after much of the structural construction work was complete, was this apparant anomaly discovered.

We were asked to draw up a report that gave a risk management perspective of the extent of the problem, so as to assist our client's management and board in deciding whether to accept the design and construction, or whether to effect design and construction changes costing many tens of thousands of dollars.

The issue here, though, was why was this design anomoly not discovered earlier.

Perhaps this could have been avoided if there had been a really sturdy risk management programme in place.

Keep well and keep safe.

Cheers

Ray

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