2015-05-13

vertical challenges

Riskkollegiet and Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) hosted a seminar on Risk Communication.

Informing is not communicating. Still, the prevailing perspective was that of authorities with their experts informing the public, motivating them to change behaviour.

I advocate local ownership of risk. We are the experts on our system, we own and manage its risk. But I must admit that there's a difference between horizontal communication within an enterprise and the challenges for government officials.

2015-05-11

continuity through imagination

What does it mean to be planning for the unexpected? Something out of the blue which we failed to foresee, how could we be planning around this?

Firstly, the unexpected might not be unheard of. We don't expect all engines of a jet plane to fail at the same time, but we know this has happened.

Secondly, let's differentiate between cause and effect. Our office might suffer a power outage. We can think of possible causes for this effect, but we won't know them all. Still, if we can imagine the effect we can plan around it.
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