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Operational Risk Management provides a logical and systematic means of identifying and controlling risk on an ongoing and continuous basis. It should be applied to all aspects of an organization where an organization is exposed to risk or can be impacted (people, assets, processes, and the environment).  Operational risk management is not a complex process and is for everyone. It requires management plus each individual worker to support and implement the principles, with the expected behaviors consistently performed to reduce the overall risk.  Risk reduction is a never ending journey including continual processes for improvement including incident management, risk analysis, auditing, monitoring, and the identification, development and implementation of mitigating strategies and controls.  Any solution or process that is put in place for operational risk management must be able to support these goals and objectives, including supporting the underlying processes of operations.
However, remember:
  • Some degree of risk is a fundamental reality
  • Risk management is a process of trade offs
  • Quantifying risk does not in itself ensure safety
  • Risk is often a matter of perspective
from the FAA System Safety Handbook, Chapter 15: Operational Risk Management – December 20 2000
The more complicated the operational environment, the more possible risks there are. With every aspect of an organization exposed to some risk, implification of those systems that support the company (including those that support Operational Risk Management) is fundamental in reducing risk.  Reducing complexity by standardizing on one solution or set of solutions, with standard processes, and procedures, fully understood, and implemented, throughout the organization eliminates the unnecessary risk of complexity in the underlying supporting systems. After all there is enough risk inherent in the manufacturing environment without adding the additional risk of multiple systems.
But incidents still occur. http://www.csb.gov/ (see chemical accidents in the news).
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This posting is the final blog of a series of blogs discussing various factors of operational risk management as it pertains to manufacturing organizations. I hope that you found the series enlightening and enjoyable.  Please feel free to comment and discuss this series.
For those of you who would like to read earlier postings below are the links:
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