In this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss the application of due diligence in the Marine Pilotage industry. 

They discuss various consulting work they’ve done with Marine Pilots across Australia and New Zealand ports, and summarise the key take-away that the process is no different for pilotage due diligence reviews than any other (industry’s) due diligence review. 

That is, 

• There needs to be an argument as to why all the credible critical issues have been identified. 
• In a port, they typically look at all the user groups and what activities they're doing. 
• Look at all the controls that can be put in place, which are reasonable in the circumstances. 
• Always needs to be a quality assurance system to make sure that what is being put in place are sustained and managed accordingly. 

But, noting, there will be site specific or port specific issues so the controls put in place may be different.

Find out more about Richard and Gaye’s consulting work at https://www.r2a.com.au.