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Deblina answered on Jan 11 2022
ASSESSMENT TASK 1
ANSWER 1
The standard of risk management helps to reduce the risk by properly identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks and providing effective management of risk. The main aim of risk management is to minimize risk and hazards and making workplace a safer place. Eg. If you are buying a vehicle. We know that there would be chances that the car might get into accidents, thus a person should ensure that there is proper insurance for it.
An example of Risk Management Standard is AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 Principles of Risk Management.
ANSWER 2
The AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 is for standardizing the risk management in the existing and future standards. Following are the principles for managing risk:
· Creating and protecting values and objectives
· Integrating plan with properly thought of process
· Properly made decisions
· Identifying the potential issues
· Managing time with systematic and structured approach
· Being aware of the information and using it in effective method
· Taking into account of human and cultural factors
· Making inclusive and transparent decision
· Being responsible and being dynamic for changes
· Helping a firm in the continuous improvement
ANSWER 3
WHS legislation has the requirement that a work place must be risk free. It provisions for safe work by a proper maintenance of machinery, structures and substances. Also, it maintains enough facilities.
Answer 4
· Risk Assessment
· Hazard Identification
· Control of risk
· Review of control measures
ANSWER 5
The main purpose of policies and procedures of risk management is to provide health and safety environment and making sure that every employees feel secured to work. It helps to minimize the risks in the company for all the employees.
ANSWER 6
· Slowing down the work: The unseen risks could make a project proceed in a slower pace. The risk needs to be acknowledged and must have a proper analysis with the relevant plans to act or track them and this consume much of the time.
· Clients dissatisfaction: It will have a high impact in works for clients and the clients don’t want to involve in risks.
· Imbalance of budget: Risk management need a proper budget with plan for proper management. A company must have much expenses to deal with such.
ANSWER 7
For analysing risks, following steps can be taken:
· Hazard Identification
· Hazard Analysis
· Hazard evaluation
· Treating the hazard
· Monitoring and reviewing the hazard.
ANSWER 8
· To identify and categorize threats, company can use PESTLE ( Political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental).
· To collect information from clients and stakeholders, surveys and questionnaires can be used.
· To find accurate information, market research can be done.
ANSWER 9
· Review of documentation
· Strength, weakness, opportunities and Threat analysis
· Techniques of gathering information
ANSWER 10
To control risks, a company can use following options:
· Retention: Reviewing the organization, acknowledging and accepting the risks as these are the costs involved to help control larger risks.
· Avoidance: Avoiding the activities that carries risks is another way of controlling risks.
· Sharing: Benefits concentrating to employees has benefit of sharing risks to allow a firm to pay for the premiums for insurance. As the risk sharing increase, the cost involved for premium decreases.
· Prevention loss and reduction: It is to reduce the loss. Eliminating a loss is a myth; hence it is used to minimize loss. It works to reduce the spread of risk across various activities.
ANSWER 11
The four procedures that a company can take to minimize risks are as below:
· A company must consider a liability for public as well as a liability for a profession.
· A preparation for natural disasters and catastrophes will help a company to minimize loss arising because of such disasters.
· Ensuring employee health will help a company to cover for any risks from employees deteriorating health.
· Installing a CCTV in the company premise helps to secure the company premise.
ASSESSMENT TASK 2
RISK BRIEFING REPORT
NatureCare Products
Risk Briefing Report
Introduction
This particular report documents the risks that are associated with the expansion of retail outlets in Melbourne and Brisbane. It also considers the evaluated and the associated risks that are relevant in this particular context. The aspect of risk in the expansion of the retail outlets of NatureCare products is relevant from the risk management policy and procedures. This was reflected in the information and the guidance of the risk management plan. It also focuses on the relevance of risk management and duly stresses the fact that risk management is a key aspect of the strategic. It is also reflected on the operational planning of the organisation. It is also effective to operate the day-to-day management and decision making in the organisation at every levels of the company.
The risk management policy and procedures of Nature Care Products has focus on key principles that relates to the commitment for implementation of risk management effectively.
This particular aspect is contemplated with management and minimising risk, incorporating risk management in the planning and decision-making processes of the organisation and implementation of risk management according to the relevant legislative requirements and appropriate risk management standards. The policies have also documented the relevance of training to ensure that the employees are skilled and productive. It also focused on monitoring performances and reviewing progress associated with the risk management prospects in the organisation. Moreover, there exists a range of business risks and the organisation is also exposed to new risks that are related to organisational activities. Relevant risks must be identified and assessed in the initial stages of planning.
Scope
The scope of the risk management processes is to identify the associated risks and assess those risks. It is effective to consider all the risks that are associated with establishing new retail outlets for the company.
PESTLE Analysis
Political Factors
Factor
Risk treatments as applicable
Stable political climate and there is no immediate change in the Government of the country.
Effective ways to monitor the political climate and check the ongoing stability of the nation.
Attitude of the government towards the private Enterprises.
Monitoring the political climate of the nation and updating with the new initiatives of the government.
Fiscal policies and the policies related to the initiatives of taxation.
Assessing the impact of Fiscal policies and other initiatives of taxation.
Capitalist system that favoured the operation of the private Organisation.
NA as it has no impact on the system.
Economic Factors
Factor
Risk treatments as applicable
Exchange rates can influence the imports and the Exports.
Monitoring the exchange rates and tracking so that it is effective by the organisation to reduce their production cost by impacting cheap imports.
Strong economy.
Regular review of the economic data that is relevant for the future growth and the decline in the projections.
Employment rate
Reviewing the economic data and assessing the availability of the workforce in the particular nation.
Technological Factors
Factor
Risk treatments as applicable
Technological development that is relevant to the product.
Regularly reviewing the technological updates in order to determine whether the new technology can provide business benefits.
Technological development in the software.
Regularly updating software and train the employees with the same, so as to improve staff effectiveness.
Legal Factors
Factor
Risk treatments as applicable
Strong consumer law.
Handling all the consumer feedback efficiently and in a regular basis in order to reduce the likelihood of litigation from the consumers.
Changes of the legislations and the legal compliances.
Reviewing all the legislative changes and determining the change of those legal aspects in the business
Compliance with the legislative issues.
Revision all the legislation that is important for the business and performs regular checks that ensure all the requirements needed by the company.
Environmental Factors
Factor
Risk treatments as applicable
Environmental requirements.
Regularly reviewing and provisioning the sustainability measures of the company in order to monitor the ongoing actresses and effectively develop new methods for regular improvements.
Consumer attitudes towards environmentally friendly products.
Conducting consumer surveys in order to find out consumer wants in relation to the environment friendly products and ensure the aspect of sustainability.
Environmental legislations
Checking and remaining updated with the environmental legislation that ensures the business is meeting all the requirements and identify any changes in the associated aspect.
Risks
Risk
Treatment
Inability to find effective physical structure to develop retail outlet for a lease in an appropriate location.
Establishing contacts with the real estate agents in the particular location in order to get a good physical structure.
Unable to find appropriate and skilled employees who can align their career objectives with the objectives of the organisation.
Offering attractive terms and conditions like payments and benefits in order to attract and retain productive employees.
Competitors can copy the business model.
Working on the patent and the copyright and continuously developing and implementing innovative business functions.
Financial loses.
Developing and implementing effective budgeting practices in order to avoid the financial loss and business loss.
Economic Uncertainty.
Proper maintenance of the company reserves in order to sustain in adverse economic conditions.
Internal and external stakeholder analysis
The internal stakeholders are the existing staff who have issues regarding the risk adversities and are reluctant to the change. The relevant internal stakeholders are the employees, Management Staffs and Shareholders.The external stakeholders are customers, suppliers and the government.
The internal stakeholders and their impact in the risk management process are as...