Monday, July 27, 2015

Risk Management: A Necessity



Currently one of the major events that Event and Conference Co. is involved in is Homelessness Prevention Week . With Shelter WA as a client, Event and Conference Co. has been assisting with the event management for the week long event. 

This morning my first task of the day was to create a risk management plan, something I had not yet attempted. Throughout the event week, a car was to be driven into the city and parked each morning as a part of a display. My job was to develop a risk management plan for this simple activity. 

I found this task to be quite tedious as the likelihood for many of the risks to occur was relatively low. Although, as no one can predict what will happen in the future, it is extremely important for all organisations to have risk management plans in place in order to minimise or even eliminate negative impacts. Negative implications of risks can involve reputation, financial impacts or even health and safety concerns. Risk management plans are especially necessary in events as attendees and the general public could be affected.

Here are some more links that discuss the necessities of having risk management plans in place:
(Article One)
(Article Two)

Did anyone else complete tasks that they found to be tedious, but necessary? Let me know!

Until next time, 
Kodee

1 comment:

Ramsha Zia Siddiqi said...

Hi Kodee!

I haven't been tasked with coming up with a risk management plan yet but I am glad for the articles you linked because I am sure I will be asked to do one soon enough.

I can totally relate with how you felt about having to do a task that was important yet really tedious. I have have been asked to input every single detail of every call I make to media outlets when we invite them to our press conference events. These details can sometimes be really just "No answer" or "call redirected", even "they hung up/call dropped".

But that is the way of the company I am interning at and so I needed to adapt to it. Tedious tasks are difficult to get through, but luckily we have variation so its not all the same!

Good luck with the rest of your internship!