Critical risks
A full day on site settled ACL's eight critical risks, the control owners for each and how every control gets verified and how often.
Case studies / ACL
ACL: a governance framework its board backed
Ashburton Contracting Limited wanted its board to see health and safety clearly and act on it. Advanced Safety worked alongside its Health and Safety Manager to build a governance framework. The board then backed a six-monthly independent governance review.
- Client
- Ashburton Contracting Limited (ACL)
- Sector
- Civil contracting
- Work
- Critical risk register, KPI dashboard, board reporting
- Board
- Six-monthly governance review backed
The challenge
Giving the board something it could act on
ACL's board wanted a clearer view of health and safety and its Health and Safety Manager wanted a system the business could run itself. The work had to cover:
- Naming the critical risks and who owns the controls for each
- Indicators that showed how the system was performing, not just what had gone wrong
- A board report built around what officers are actually required to do
- Something the business could own and run itself
The framework was built with ACL's Health and Safety Manager in the room. It was hers from day one.
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What Advanced Safety did
Diagnose, design, sustain
Framework and reporting
Advanced Safety built the critical risk register, a KPI dashboard with leading and lagging indicators and clear traffic-light bands, a critical risk observation form and a six-monthly board report template built around the officer due diligence duties.
Board review
ACL's board backed a six-monthly governance review, with Advanced Safety reporting independently against the framework.
The result
What ACL got
- Eight critical risks named, each with control owners and a verification method
- A KPI dashboard with leading and lagging indicators and agreed bands
- A conversation-based critical risk observation form for managers, the committee and the team
- A six-monthly independent governance review backed by the board
The service behind this result
Governance Advisory
ACL's result came from a framework built with the people who run it and a board that gets an independent view twice a year. Governance Advisory gives your board and officers the same.
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