Risk Audits

Although ARM (Availability, Reliability & Maintainability) and Safety Assessments are necessary in designing safe and reliable systems, it is equally important to operate and manage systems safely using competent staff and well written procedures.

Risk Audits help companies to check that all of the ingredients for a safe and reliable system are in place and to highlight opportunities for improvement.

Egerton Consulting has experience both of carrying out Risk Audits and of designing Risk Audit checks and procedures to aid in-house audit teams.

Example: Contamination Risk Assessments

Client: Water Service Northern Ireland (through Ferguson McIlveen)

Following a cryptosporidium outbreak in Spring 2001, Water Service undertook to carry out operational audits on all of their water treatment facilities to reduce the risk of further outbreaks.

Egerton Consulting worked with Ferguson McIlveen to develop and demonstrate a procedure to:
 

	Identify points where contamination might occur;
	Prioritise potential flashpoints;
	Identify remedial actions to reduce risks effectively;
	Prioritise those actions for the most rapid and cost-effective risk management strategy.

A software tool previously developed by us for the identification and prioritisation of risks within water treatment was central to this work.