Engineering for Business

“The task of the board is overall superintendence of the company, not its day-to-day management. But an integral part of that task is being able and willing to challenge management on key issues, and doing that whenever necessary” – from the Final Report “Royal Commission in to Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry”

We agree – and that’s the promise.

Expertise is usually engaged as subject matter experts embedded within a study team.

Facilitation and/or participation in risk assessments using business specific or ISO 31000 guidelines.

The focus is to:

–  Establish or manage the procurement process(es) that deliver well defined scopes of work, provide value for money and assign and manage risk.

–  Manage construction activities with direct resources or with a head contractor to achieve the schedule and budget

–  Manage maintenance activities (condition monitoring, preventative, corrective and renewal) to achieve the required availability of the asset over its useful life.

This is a novel approach to test the safety of an organisation viewed through legislatives requirements. The scenarios are derived from actual incidents from around the world and the audit aim to prove through artefact discovery the following:

–  The hazards in the scenario, if relevant to the operation, can be identified in the risk register

–  There are controls in place to reduce the probability of occurrence or mitigate its effect, and;

–  for a randomly selected site(s) or location(s), controls are effective ie there are artefacts

These are 1^st party audits use scenarios for context and impact, aiming to simulate the information discovery process that investigative or regulatory bodies would follow.

They are designed to bring safety, quality and engineering processes to life through story telling.

Getting into the fine print of the contract, scope of work and referenced documents when working on claims management & investigations, providing a factual basis for contractual discussions.

We use Tertiary Education level expertise (University course developer) to develop fit-for-purpose and culturally appropriate training materials. Post training, we collect user feedback through training evaluation tools to provide continuous improvement to training material, ensuring training is an effective risk control.