Event created by Jackson Jones
The REBoK steering committee is continuing with its A Series of Queries to help risk practitioners, and those new to risk management, better understand risk engineering. We want to provide an opportunity to discuss and query our knowledge.
The first A Series of Queries session, held in July, covered the topic of “Risk Management vs Risk Engineering”. It was a good session with over 20 people attending and good debates and discussions about the topic.
The series is facilitated by long-time REBoK member, and former chair of the Steering Committee, independent consultant Susan Jaques of Sage Consulting Solutions. Susan has a background in infrastructure engineering, risk management, quality management and engineering skills development. Since her first student job evaluating risk estimation calculation methodologies, Susan has carried risk engineering throughout her career, and therefore has been very aware of the theory and practice of risk engineering.
REBoK's A Series of Queries is aimed at young engineers, engineers new to risk, people who have risk management as one of their responsibilities, and anyone wanting to understand risk engineering at a high level. This series has a risk engineering focus, and so we will be looking at engineering solutions to manage risk on engineering projects, designs, operations, and on meeting safety requirements.
The format:
Susan will provide a brief introduction to the topic and some framing of the question depending on the audience, and then some short pre-arranged answers by those who have offered in advance. Then it will shift to a facilitated discussion, Q&A, and opportunity for participants to present views and ideas.
This is not a webinar where attendees are hidden from each other with a one-way presentation from an expert. Rather, it’s meant to be a round-table, idea-sharing, meeting style, where participants can see and hear each other. We hope you’ll come along to participate.
We will be encouraging cameras on; but you can come to listen only. This is meant to be a place for young engineers and professionals to think, organise, and then verbalise those thoughts, opinions, and views. We will be encouraging input from attendees, though we won’t force it.
Hope to see you there!
Series of Queries schedule:
The August question is:
What does a Risk Engineer do?
An alternative question might be: when I’m doing my job, when am I ‘doing’ risk engineering?
This question about what a risk engineer “does” comes up often, or rather, it probably goes through people’s minds even if it isn’t spoken out loud. We’ll pose a few ideas about what constitutes the role of a risk engineer. Like risk itself, we may raise more questions than answers, but by having these discussions, we will all learn from the variety of views out there.