Welcome to the winter edition of our newsletter. The rush to the end of the financial year saw a flurry of public and in-house courses for Richard and I which are continuing into July.  It was great to see our Criminal Manslaughter and Rail Safety public courses for July, run through Engineering Education Australia, were sold out. The next set of public courses are later in the year (see dates below). 

Richard and I also provided a risk and due diligence session as part of the Fremantle Maritime Simulation Centre’s Advanced Marine Pilotage training course. 

This month, Richard and I travelled to Wellington NZ to complete a high-level availability study for Transpower’s HVDC Link.  It was a great and very productive week and Wellington turned on the fabulous weather for us – not windy at all!

At the start of June, we wrapped up season 3 of our podcast, Risk! Engineers Talk Governance (see episode links below). Richard and I continue to be pleasantly astonished by the popularity of our podcast and the positive feedback that we are receiving from our listeners.  Listen out for season 4 coming in Spring.

In this edition of the newsletter, we feature two new blogs, both around the theme of criticality which is at the centre of all our due diligence work. That is, making sure all reasonable, practicable precautions are in place for credible critical issues.  The first article, outlines the recent IT system failure that was experienced around the world and the second is related to climate change. We hope you find them interesting reads. 

If you have any questions relating to engineering due diligence, please get in touch. Richard and I are always happy to chat. Email admin@r2a.com.au or call us on (+61) 1300 772 333.

 Until next time,

Gaye Francis
R2A Partner

Criminal Manslaughter – How Not To Do it

• Tuesday 8 October, 9:00am – 1:00pm (AEDT)

Audience: This course suits engineers and design professionals, and is particularly valuable for board members, senior decision-makers and technical advisers.

Further information and registration via EEA: eea.org.au/courses/criminal-manslaughter-how-not-do-it

Rail Safety National Law & OHS Legislation - Obligations for Engineers & Designers

• Thursday 31 October, 10:00am – 1:15pm (AEDT)

Audience: This course suits engineers across all disciplines, especially engineers involved in the rail industry. Other relevant roles include: Designers and Project Managers.

Further information and registration via EEA: eea.org.au/courses/rail-safety-national-law-and-ohs-legislation-obligations-engineers-and-designers

Engineering Due Diligence

•  Tuesday 12 & Wednesday 13 November (two half days), 9:00am – 1:00pm (AEDT)

Audience: This course is a more detailed course for Engineers. It's also suitable for risk and compliance staff of technology-based organisations.

For further information and registration via EEA: eea.org.au/courses/engineering-due-diligence

Did you know we also do tailored, in-house workshop briefings? Either contact us directly or chat with EEA. 

Find out more at www.r2a.com.au/private-due-diligence-briefing-workshops

Thanks to everyone who listened in to Season 3 of our podcast. Below are the season's episodes since our last newsletter. We also did a bonus episode on the recent IT major outage.

• Ep 6 | Code of Practice & WHS/OHS Confusion

• Ep 7 | Risk Appetite versus Zero Harm & the Confusion at Board levels

• Ep 8 | How Standards stifle innovation

• Ep 9 | Town Planning Disasters - The need for consquence planning, not risk planning

• Ep 10 | Wrap of Season 3 - Criticality & Design and Climate Change Design Option

• Ep 31 (Bonus) | Major IT Outage - Criticality & Resilience

Available on all major platforms including Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon and video recordings can be watched on YouTube. 

In this article, Gaye discusses how the major IT outage that affected systems around the world highlights the importance of criticality and resilience, as opposed to risk. That is, the issues that are critical to your organisation regardless of the likelihood.

In this article, Gaye writes on global warming from a credible critical issue with a due diligence design approach and whether the Victorian State Government (which has practicable options available and the resources to do so) should protect Melbourne, a low-lying city, from rising sea levels? 

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