2021 12 Risk Management Manual
2021 12 Risk Management Manual
MANAGEMENT
A GUIDE TO NAVIGATING RISKS
AND UNCERTAINTY
@SurreyPlaceON
1 ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary������������������������������������������������������������3
Introduction ������������������������������������������������������������������������4
Levels of Responsibility������������������������������������������������������5
Principles������������������������������������������������������������������������������6
Process����������������������������������������������������������������������������������8
Glossary����������������������������������������������������������������������������� 37
Referenced Documents��������������������������������������������������� 38
Figure 3: Deloitte Risk Management Model, showing top down and bottom up approaches
h. Risk management takes human and cultural factors into account – Risk
management recognizes the capabilities, perceptions and intentions of
external and internal people that can facilitate or hinder achievement of
the organization’s objectives.
INTEGRATION
Risk is managed in every part of the organization’s structure. Everyone in the organization
has responsibility for managing risk. Governance guides the course, its external and
internal relationships, and the rules, processes and practices needed to achieve its
purpose.
Management structures translate governance direction into strategy and associated
objectives required to achieve desired levels of sustainable performance and long-term
viability. Determining risk
management accountability
and oversight roles within an
organization are integral parts
of our governance.
Integrating risk management
into Surrey Place is a dynamic
and iterative process
considering our needs and
culture. Risk management is
part of and not separate from
the organizational purpose,
governance, leadership
and commitment, strategy,
objectives, and operations.
Based on Surrey Place’s governance structure, and strategic and operational planning
process, strategic objectives and indicators are determined at the organizational-level and
cascaded down as operational objectives and indicators into various units like Corporate
Services, Clinical Programs, and Operations. Strategic risks are linked to the achievement
of the Surrey Place’s strategic objectives and indicators. Likewise, operational risks are
linked to the achievement of operational objectives and indicators.
There are objective criteria in the risk management policy for:
• Escalating operational, new or emerging risks bottom-up from operations to
management and/or Board
• Cascading down strategic risk for operational/departmental/program manager’s
attention
Surrey Place’s risk register include both strategic and operational risks.
Regular operational reports include report on the progress of operational risk treatment
plans and any potential new operational risk. Operational reports are consolidated
upwards whereby the nature and volume of risk information required to be reported
at various organizational levels (including the Board level) and from various locations
(satellite offices/partner sites) are determined.
Our top Management and oversight bodies continually articulate their commitment to risk
management through our policies and ensuring that different tables discuss and report
risks and mitigation strategies. This commitment is further manifested by:
• reiterating the organization’s purpose for managing risk ad links to its objectives and
other policies in different tables;
• reinforcing the need to integrate risk management into the overall culture
• leading the integration of risk management into core business activities and decision-
making;
• defining responsibilities and accountabilities
• providing the necessary resources available;
• dealing with conflicting objectives;
• measuring and reporting within the organization’ performance indicators;
• continuous review and improvement
The risk management commitment is communicated within the organization and to
stakeholders through meetings and discussion in different tables.
Allocating resources
Our top management and oversight bodies ensured that appropriate resources are
allocated for risk management that include, but are not limited to:
• people, skills, experience and competence
• organization’s processes, methods, and tools to be used for managing risk;
• documenting processes and procedures;
• information and knowledge management systems;
• professional development and training needs.
• The findings on Risks, Quality and Safety reports serve as inputs to the organization’s
budget allocation.
Main Board of Directors Executive Team Clinical Directors/ Other Managers All Staff
Duties Department Heads
• Establish an effective • Develop and apply • Apply Risk • Apply Risk • Follow Risk
risk management risk management Management Process Management anagement
system process • Accept and allocate Process Process
• Establish and keep • Accept and allocate ownership for risk • Accept and • Accept
under review the ownership for risk • Proactively anticipate allocate ownership
Board’s appetite for ownership for for risk
Organize
• Decide what • Design, apply • Design and apply • Design and • Undertake
opportunities, present and monitor the controls to manage apply controls and keep up
or future, the Board operation of risk in line with the to manage risk to date with
wants to pursue and controls to ensure Board’s appetite for in line with the mandatory
what risks it is willing to the achievement taking risk Board’s appetite training
take in developing the of objectives • Prepare risk for taking risk and other
opportunities selected, and promote management • Remain alert to relevant
routinely, organizational mitigation plans risk training
• Robustly and regularly success • Follow
• Ensure adequate • Manage
scan the horizon for • Ensure failure policies,
Plan & Control
emergency resources to
emergent opportunities does not disable – preparedness and optimum effect clinical
and threats by contingencies are contingencies standards
anticipating future risks in place and tested • Develop and and relevant
for foreseeable implement risk
• Decide whether or not for all reasonably disruptive events. procedures
foreseeable management
a risk can be accepted • Manage resources to plan • Act on
situations lessons for
• Simultaneously drive optimum effect
the business forward • Allocate, structure learning
and prioritize • Develop policies,
whilst making decisions guidelines,
which keep risk under resources within and
across divisions or procedures and
prudent control standards to govern
directorates so that
risk is managed in the management of
accordance with the program risks.
Board’s risk appetite
• Keep under • Challenge, support, • Monitor the • Supervise the • Report concerns,
review material supervise and operation of work of others to adverse events or
risk exposures hold colleagues controls and ensure controls failures to contain
Monitor
that are not to account for address identified are applied risk adequately
accepted by the performance gaps in control correctly
Board at each and continuous
formal meeting improvement
• Determine Audit • Determine Audit • Assist Internal • Cooperate fully • Cooperate with
priorities using Priorities using a Audit where an assist internal internal audit
a risk- based risk- based approach required audit and act on their
approach • Assist internal and ensure • Challenge findings
• Take account of audit where recommendations recommendations • Carry out
reports from the required and ensure are acted upon if they are not instructions based
Audit Committee recommendations by relevant agreed on agreed audit
are acted upon by colleagues recommendations
• Develop and
relevant colleagues • Account for implement
control of risk
Audit
Table 2 – shows how risk management duties and responsibilities will be shared across the organization
17. Infection Control • Clinical/Organization Manual • Risk Control & Prevention Risk
Identification
Non-Clinical/Administrative Risk
IMPROVEMENT
Adapting
Surrey Place will continually monitor and adapt risk management framework to address
external and internal changes. In doing so, the organization can improve its value.
Continually improving
Surrey Place will continually improve the suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the risk
management framework and the way risk management process is integrated.
As relevant gaps or improvement opportunities are identified, the organization will
develop plans and tasks and assign them to those
accountable for implementation. Once implemented, these improvements should
contribute to the enhancement of risk management.
Figure 9 – Risk Communication and Consultation, adapted from enHealth.au, shows risk stakeholder engagement,
communication and consultation are overarching components. This was tweaked further to highlight Surrey Place’s risk
communication cycle.
To establish the context, it is necessary to consider the strategic, organizational and risk
management context in which risks will be managed. This means considering both the
internal and external environment.
First consider the following three contexts for the organization:
STRATEGIC Consider the relationship between the organization and its environment
including reputational risk; identify the organization’s strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats, consider elements that might
support or impair the organization’s ability to successfully manage risks.
ORGANIZATIONAL Consider the organization and its capabilities, including goals and objectives,
and the strategies in place to achieve them; align risk management with the
organization’s Service Agreement or business plans.
RISK MANAGEMENT Consider the goals, objectives, strategies, scope and parameters of the risk
management process, including the benefits, costs, and opportunities of risk
management activities and the required resources
Risk identification
• Tangible and intangible sources of risk • The nature and value of assets and resources
• Causes and events • Consequences and their impact on objectives
• Threats and opportunities • Limitations of knowledge and reliability of
information
• Vulnerabilities and capabilities • Time-related factors
• Changes in the external and internal context • Biases assumptions and beliefs of those involved
• Indicators of emerging risks
“Identifying risks involves asking: What can happen? and How can it
happen?”
Another way is using the following questions from HIROC to help identify significant risks:
• Is there the potential for significant impact on client care and/or safety?
• Is there the potential for significant impact on strategic objectives?
• Are there internal or emerging trends in healthcare
• that could result in exposure?
• Is there the potential for significant impact on financials?
• Does it require complex mitigation efforts?
• Are you working to prevent reoccurrence?
• Other
Risk identification through normal organization Team meetings; Managers forum; Briefings;
activities Informal ad hoc meetings; Routine date collection;
Stakeholder feedback
Assessment against standards Clinical quality reviews and audits; internal and
external audits; accreditation reviews and other
external reviews; Observation; JHSC safety rounds;
Professional judgment
Risk Analysis
Risk Evaluation
Evaluating risks involve comparing the level of risk determined in the previous step against
pre-determined criteria, to decide if a level of risk is acceptable as is (referred to as “within
the tolerance level”), or
action is needed to mitigate the risk (i.e. “it needs to be treated”).
This required risk tolerance, which simply means the risk owners review the risk
information in their responsibility to ensure the information, assessment and actions are
reasonable and whether the risk is within the tolerance level.
A range of issues arise in determining at what point to classify a risk as acceptable.
Appetite for taking on a particular risk will vary from one manager or clinician to another:
a risk that is acceptable to one person may be unacceptable to someone else. There is also
likely to be different perspectives of risk at different levels of management from team to
department to executive level.
RISK TREATMENT
Risk treatment involves identifying the most
appropriate actions or treatments to modify
risks that are at an unacceptable level.
It controls risk by developing a treatment
addressing the underlying causes and
assesses how effective the treatment is. If the
projected/residual risk remains unacceptable,
generate an alternative treatment.
Figure 14 – ISO 31000:2018, Risk Management Process
highlighting Risk Treatment
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Risk treatment should be developed by, or under the direction of, a risk owner, preferable
with the support of a team.
Review the risk assessment – Analyzing Risks, as part of deciding risk treatment options, as
well as the existing controls, to decide if they require modification as well as considering
“new” treatments.
The aim is to create a balance between minimizing the risk and creating potential benefits
or opportunities. For example, if a very high risk can be addressed within existing or
minimal resource allocations, then treating that risk should be a priority.
ALARP
When considering the right risk treatment or control the concept of “As Low As
Reasonably Practicable (or ALARP) should be considered. ALARP is the point where the
risk is negligible, or at least at a level where it can be managed by routine procedures.
ALARP is the level of risk that is tolerable and cannot be reduced further without
expenditure of resources, time and effort being disproportionate to benefit gained or
where the solution is impractical to implement.
Selecting the most appropriate risk treatment option(s) involves balancing the potential
benefits derived in relation to the achievement of the objectives against costs, effort or
disadvantages of implementation.
Risk treatment options are not necessarily mutually exclusive or appropriate in all
circumstances.
Options for treating risk may involve one or more of the following:
• avoiding the risk by deciding not to start or continue with the activity that gives rise to
the risk;
• taking or increasing the risk in order to pursue an opportunity;
• removing the risk source;
• changing the likelihood;
• changing the consequences;
• sharing the risk (e.g. through contracts, buying insurance);
• retaining the risk by informed decision.
Justification for risk treatment is broader than solely economic considerations and should
consider all the organization’s obligations, voluntary commitments and stakeholder
views. The selection of risk treatment options should be made in accordance with the
organization’s objectives, risk criteria and available resources.
When selecting risk treatment options, the organization should consider the values,
perceptions and potential involvement of stakeholders and the most appropriate ways to
communicate and consult with them. Though equally effective, some risk treatments can
be more acceptable to some stakeholders than to others.
Risk priorities and risk management plans need to be continually monitored and
reviewed. This ensures that:
• the overall management plans remain relevant and in the changing service provision
and government environment
• The risk treatment plans remain appropriate and effective
• The risk ratings and exposure remain current
• New risks are identified and added, including appropriate controls and treatments
• Existing risks that have been fully addressed are closed or removed the Risk Register,
with an appropriate record of the outcomes.
Integrate and embed risk management into the reporting framework by developing a
standardized reporting format that includes the following:
• performance and variance reporting – reporting on the achievement of objectives and
adherence to budgets
• reporting on new and/or emerging risk, including changes and updates to the risk
register
• status report of agreed risk treatment plans
Monthly operational reports will have information on the achievement of operational
objectives and updated to the operational risk register. These operational reports will be
consolidated at the CEO/ Board level. Board reports would include information on the
achievement of strategic objectives and updates to the strategic risk register.
Surrey Place’s Risk Register captures the following information:
ID
Department
Date Raised
Risk Type
Risk Statement
Risk Level
Risk Impact
Risk Severity
Complete Date
Contingency Plan/Action
Progress on Action
Status
Notes
Control Measure that maintains and/or modifies risk; include, but are not limited to
any process, policy, device, practice or other conditions and/or actions which
maintain and/or modify risk.
Incident Event in which a loss occurred or could have occurred regardless of severity
Inherent risk Exposure arising from a specific risk before any intervention to manage it
Near Miss Operational failure that did not result in a loss or give rise to an inadvertent gain.
Residual Risk Current risk. The risk remaining after risk treatment
Risk analysis Process to comprehend the nature of risk and to determine the level of risk
Risk Management Coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk
Risk owner Person or entity with the specific accountability and authority for managing the
risk and any associated risk treatments