Risk! Engineers Talk Governance

By Richard Robinson & Gaye Francis

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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 


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