Governance and Risk Management

The main aims of the course are to provide an understanding of:

• A culture of governance and how this operates in an organisation
• The interrelatedness of governance and risk management
• The elements of governance and risk management systems and their practical application in an organisation
• How to implement risk management tools in order to establish and / or participate in proactive governance programmes

On completion of the module students should have shown evidence of being able to:

1. Demonstrate a critical insight and comprehensive understanding of the concept of governance, the scope of its applicability and how governance is managed practically in an organisation
2. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the current standards and legislation that the organisation must meet in relation to governance and risk and discuss how the organisation achieves those standards
3. Develop a practical toolkit for assessing, managing and reducing risks, ensuring business continuity and investigating incidents and complaints and implementing remedial, corrective and preventive actions
4. Explore and critically evaluate the discipline of risk management and to demonstrate how this contributes to the health and safety culture of an organisation

Indicative Content:

Intro to WebCT

• Use and navigate the functions of myWebCT.
• Explore the WebCT tools.

Topic 1: What is Governance?

• What are governance & risk management?
• Establishing a Culture of Governance
• Aspects of Risk & Governance
• Introduction to Standards and Guidelines
• Regulators and Inspectors

Topic 2: A Culture of Governance

• A Culture of Governance
• Organisational structures / responsibilities
• Board assurance framework
• Managing complaints

Topic 3: The Human Element

• Risk Management: Human Errors
• What is risk management?
• Human errors - active and latent failures - system failures
• Understanding the risk management process: Airline industry –a model of best practice?
• Safety in the workplace
• Risk management in healthcare: how is it achieved?

Topic 4: Legal Aspects of Risk Management

• The Law: legislation and reporting
• Accessing Legislation
• Key UK Legislation
• Making and Keeping the Workplace Safe
• European Union Directives
• Authorities and Agencies

Topic 5: Statutory Reporting

• Statutory Reporting and the Monitoring of Risk
• Mitigating the risk
• Key lines of Enquiry (KLOE)

Topic 6: Risk Management in Practice: the tools

• Introduction: Tools for Risk Management
• Risk assessment
• Grading a Risk
• Types of Risk Assessment
• Incident reporting procedures
• Root cause analysis tool
• Report writing and Action Plan (Corrective/Preventive Actions)
• Assurance

Topic 7: Final Report

• Powerpoint presentation
• Public contributions to the course