Safety Governance is often overlooked in the space of risk governance. However with globalisation of our markets, newly increased penalities and the positive duty of due diligence for directors and officers, the focus on safety governance must be reignited.
Managing the non-financial risk in an organisation is often difficult to visualise.
Here we discuss the Translation of Operational Risk to the Boardroom
2. 2
Translating Risk & Damage
• To be Informed
• Non-Financial Risks
• Language
• Safety Financial Reporting
• The Numbers Don’t Lie
• ROI (Proving Value in Prevention)
• The Costs of Damage
• Risk Dollarisation®
• Create Action
• Futuristic Thinking
3. 3
Operations Duty to Inform
• If your duty is to be informed
• It is the operations responsibility to
appropriately inform you
• How to define appropriate?
• Due Diligence Definition
• Informed in a relatable manner –
financial
5. 5
Non-Financial Risks
• Non-Financial Risk is those items of risk
that are not normally managed in monetary
or financially reported:
– Operational Risk
– Compliance Risk
– Conduct Risk
– IT Risk
– Cyber Risk
– Third- Party Risk
6. 6
Damage Costs
• The cost incurred by repercussions (effects) of direct environmental
impacts (for example, from the emission of pollutants) such as the
degradation of land or human-made structures and health effects. In
environmental accounting, it is part of the costs borne by economic
agents.
• The word “damage” is chosen and used to speak to the commercial/
business/ operational parties of a business whom regularly speak in
these terms for stock and accounts of widgets worldwide.
• The words and phrases are to frame a commercial approach to risk
and its management in terms business owners know, understand
and are comfortable to operate within.
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MONEY TALKS
• NO MATTER WHICH LANGUAGE
–Dolarização do risco
–Dolarización del riesgo
–リスクのドル化
–Risk Dollarization
–Dollarisation des risques
–Risico-Dollarisering
–风险 货币
16. 16
Financial Approach Safety
• Improved Economic Outcomes
• New Language
• Clear, Transparent & Accurate
• Marked, Measured & Manage
• Lets Commercially focused people understand
Non-Financial Risk
• Risk DollarisationTM has positive impacts &
results for all entities including workers and
companies.
17. 17
Damage Costs?
IMPORTANT NUMBERS
Suitable Duties Medical
Counsellors Investigators
Public Liability Legal
Physio External provider
Common law Claims Surveillance
Doctors Insurance
It should be noted the concept is not primarily focused on “damages” in the above legal sense. Whilst damages of this nature are included in The Financial Approach to Non-Financial Risk, it is essential that the focus is on avoidance of damage, which in turn results in avoidance of damages.
Damage Costs are all those costs associated with harm in a business environment. “Environment” should be taken broadly as the OECD approaches as the whole operation and the environment in which it operates.
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
We aim to avoid the catastrophic positions in business
We have all heard of the Grenfell Incident, Dreamworld , Rana Plaza and Deep Water horizon
Why is it that we talk about risks in dollar terms only when it's absolutely too late?
If we don’t address the true value of risk and avoid managing this as we would any other budget item – we would simply expect a catastrophic event to occur.
We need to talk about it in dollars before it's far too late
Risk Dollarisation means true cost benefit analysis can be applied and ensures the financial experts listen, understand and that all parties are speaking the same language.
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
Applying a financial approach to non-financial risk provides a common way of thinking for all stakeholders.
What language do you speak?
Do you know your numbers (and im not speaking about frequency rates – I am asking the costs of operations)?
Can you quantify your costs to show the benefits.
HSEQ professionals must be able to quantify in dollars their areas of responsibility.
By using financial terms stakeholders are clear on their positions as they are clearly defined, accountable and visible.
It removes the ambiguity and assigns a specific economic value for risk rather than today’s current qualitative terms.
Risk Dollarisation increases the importance & understanding of the current non-financial functions of an entity as they will be represented in financial terms.
Risk Dollarisation quantifies items of damage risk that are normally not costed
It ensures all damage risk are marked, measured and managed in financial terms just as any other financial cost can be, not just at catastrophe stage.
Risk Dollarisation allows commercially focused people to assign dollars to what they usually consider Non Financial aspects of the entity.
This application of dollars helps them understand
It is clear
Transparent
Visible and accurate
The numbers don’t lie.
It WILL improve the decision making process and the economic outcomes
This philosophy challenges the concept of assigning costs, people and damage in one conversation, so everyone is on the same page and talking the same language.
It is Quantitative versus Qualitative reporting
This ensures it is presented as objective data instead of subjective terms just like any budget item.
It is our job to $$$
CEO CFO
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
Not sure they know how to talk in specifically finanicial terms
But they did finally in their last report attempt to have people start to report in this form
Linmted Guidance Metric Driver helps you do this
Just a short time ago I was a safety guy at a company just like you
The sad fact is that safety isnt always first
I was struggling to be heard
So I changed my language
Soon people started to listen as I created a financial relevance
Today we explore creating a financial relevance
We will cover the abovve topics
We want to share wuth you how to gather the hearts minds and pockets of the ceo cfo and plant managers
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
MONEY TALKS
Aphra Behn
Money makes sense in a language all nations understand
“Looking ahead, reduced margins and profits by all business due to insurance premium increases will be a significant challenge for our clients.
Collection gaps
Gig Economy players
Less Insurable “Units” as people are replaced with rebots;
Increased Legal Action
ASX
Australia Sueing nation exceeded the USA
CAR INSURANCE
National Disability Scheme
NSW Icare Reform – THEY want to join QLD as the 2nd sueing state
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!
Once I switched that perception
The dark side
They thought we put money
Cold hard facts many peple think like this
That’s why we say risk….
Pwc Rob Ashley board meeting – how do you get them to listen to you??
Directors piped up skull and cross bones scarf
But I simply said I have them by the hip pocket
I talk in dollars this was back in 2011 when it had to start
My job was on seek about 3 times whilst i worked there!!