In this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss this season’s theme of SFAIRP: Moral Imperative versus Commercial Reality and that SFAIRP is hard. 

They discuss the tension between the legal and moral weight of “so far as is reasonably practicable” and the commercial pressures organisations face every day, including:

• How SFAIRP is an objective test, but objective to whom, and determined when?
• Why leaving the "i" out of SFAIRP matters more than you might think.
• The danger of delaying design decisions until elimination options are no longer viable.
• The misuse of HAZOP as a substitute for early-stage critical hazard thinking. 
• Why the WHS legislation may actually be trying to bring creativity and innovation back into engineering.

The season will also cover topics on AI and the human effort required to verify it, the integration of the risk curve, risk language and the creeping rigidity in how terms are used, resilient and adaptation strategies.

If you’d like us to cover a specific topic or have any feedback we’d love to hear from you. Email [email protected].

For further information on Richard and Gaye’s consulting work with R2A, head to https://www.r2a.com.au, where you’ll also find their booklets (store) and a sign-up for their quarterly newsletter to keep informed of their latest news and events. 

Gaye is also founder of Australian women’s safety workwear company Apto PPE https://www.aptoppe.com.au.