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Due Diligence and Risk Engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss governance in an engineering context.
Richard & Gaye are co-directors at R2A and have seen the risk business industry become very complex. The OHS/WHS 'business', in particular, has turned into an industry, that appears to be costing an awful lot of organisations an awful lot of money for very little result.
Richard & Gaye's point of difference is that they come from the Common Law viewpoint of what would be expected to be done in the event that something happens. Which is very, very different from just applying the risk management standard (for example).
They combine common law and risk management to come to a due diligence process to make organisations look at what their risk issues are and, more importantly, what they have to have in place to manage these things.
Due diligence is a governance exercise. You can't always be right, but what the courts demand of you is that you're always diligent
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Two Types of Regulators
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace Regulations
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Breaking SFAIRP down to three parts: So Far (SF). As Is (AI). Reasonably Practicable (RP)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Formal Safety Assessments
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Safety Culture (Revisited)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Could vs Should in Workplace Safety
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Safety & Planning Law Complications
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Safe Work Australia's Best Practice Review of Model WHS Act & Regulations
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Rail Safety National Law Pressures & the SFAIRP Approach
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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SFAIRP Complexity & Pressures for Stakeholders
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Preventing Criminal Manslaughter ~ Understanding & Implementing SFAIRP (Live Forum Preview)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Season 5 Wrap on Difficult Conversations & Engineering for Communities
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May 31, 2025 |
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Engineering Due Diligence - The confusion between Risk, Assurance & Diligence
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May 25, 2025 |
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How organisational silos impact due diligence across safety, projects and compliance
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May 18, 2025 |
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Being Relevant, Reasoned & Concise - for your Due Diligence Argument
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May 11, 2025 |
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Target Levels of Risk & Safety - SFAIRP vs ALARP Revisited
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May 04, 2025 |
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Why Standards are not the Solution
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Insurance Criteria: Its history, relevance, and the Highly Protected Risk (HPR) engineering process
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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How to Prevent Catastrophic Project Blowouts
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Difficult Conversations Engineers need to have about Risk
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Risk Management & Negligence - Due Diligence Essentials for Engineers
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Season 4 Wrap: Due Diligence as a Governance Process, Dam Safety & the Relevance of Due Diligence
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Bush Fire Risk, Due Diligence & Mitigation Controls
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Due Diligence in the Electrical & Power Industry
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Obligations for Engineers under WHS/OHS legislation
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Due Diligence in Marine Pilotage
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Due Diligence Essentials for Engineers - R2A's New Booklet
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Laws of Man vs Laws of Nature in the Due Diligence Context
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Aviation Industry & the Application of the Due Diligence Process
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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AI (Artificial Intelligence), Robots, Controls & Liability
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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The Judicial Need for Reliable Knowledge and to Demonstrate Causation.
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Major IT Outage - Criticality & Resilience
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Wrap of Season 3 - Criticality & Design and Climate Change Design Options
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Town Planning Disasters - The need for consquence planning, not risk planning
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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How Standards stifle innovation
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May 26, 2024 |
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Risk Appetite versus Zero Harm & the Confusion at Board levels
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May 19, 2024 |
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Code of Practice & WHS/OHS Confusion
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May 12, 2024 |
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Art & Engineering - How being a great artist relates to the engineer's roles
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May 05, 2024 |
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Control & Reasonableness in WHS/OHS Legislation
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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R2A's Due Diligence Process - Why it works
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Design trumps Risk Assessment - Our VCAT Hearing Success (as Expert Witnesses)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Design Analysis not Risk Analysis
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Season 2 Wrap Up: De-engineering of Technical Roles and Engineering Education & Philosophy
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Nuclear Power Safety - How The Finnish Get It Right Before They Proceed
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Safety Culture & Women's PPE
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Has WHS Legislation & Risk Management Standards stopped people thinking?
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) Allocation and its implications under WHS Legislation
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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The Journey to WHS Criminalisation | How the Risk Management profession has changed over the last 40 years
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Safety Culture Change Agents | The role of engineers in change & safety
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Project Due Diligence - Using a Military Intelligence Approach & Critical Success Outcomes
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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The Demise of ALARP in Victoria Major Hazards (and the continuing debate on ALARP vs SFAIRP)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Safety in Design
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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ISO 31000 The Risk Management Standard - The consequences for WHS/OHS legislation
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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The Contest of Ideas - Has Australia gone backwards in embracing SFAIRP?
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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White Island Volcano Eruption - NZ trial on alleged breach of Workplace Health & Safety laws
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Rail Safety National Law - The confusion between it and the WHS Legislation/OHS Act
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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What do you mean by the term Risk? The language of (and confusion around) Risk.
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Land Use Planning & Major Hazards
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Regulations & Licence to Trade
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Role of Standards & Do They Meet Your Legislative Requirements?
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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The Role of Risk Managers in Project Governance. Does your organisation need one?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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SFAIRP vs ALARP | Risk! Engineers Talk Governance Podcast
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Introducing Risk! Engineers Talk Governance
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May 08, 2023 |