In this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis this season’s theme of "Difficult Conversations Engineers Need to Have About Risk". 

Key discussion points include:

• Risk is multidimensional. 
• Risk covers a big domain that has lead to confusion.
• There are three different types of risk, but R2A’s focus is typically on safety risk and project risk – downside risk.
• Commercial industry like to focus on upside, downside risk (risk and reward, risk appetite and innovation), but Engineers should focus on downside risk.
• Innovation and Risk Management is good but not at the expense of zero harm and the WHS/OHS legislation.
• Often innovation is the solution to the problem but cannot compromise safety.
• Innovation cannot be encouraged as the focus of Risk Management.
• Safety risk shouldn’t been seen as an obstruction; safety is non-negotiable.
• Don't just choose one technique because if you do, and particularly if you ignore the WHS legislation requirements, you're going to set yourself up for a pretty serious fall. 

For further information on Richard and Gaye’s consulting work with R2A, head to https://www.r2a.com.au.

 Gaye is also founder of women’s safety workwear company Apto PPE if you’d like to check out the garments at https://www.aptoppe.com.au