This one-day workshop is for staff within the public sector that have responsibility for risk management within their job function but may have had no previous training in risk management. It provides a background to the risk management process and at the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Understand what risk management is
• Describe why risk management is important
• Understand how to identify risks
• Analyse risks
• Understand how to treat risks
• Outline of the organisation's policy on risk management

The workshop will be in the form of discussion and practical exercises designed to reinforce the theory.

Format of the day is outlined below:

• Introductions
• What is risk?
• Risk management
• Risk assessment and analysis
• Risk evaluation
• Risk reporting
• Risk treatment
• Pulling it all together, the organisation's risk management process
• Quick quiz
• Summary and close

The treatment of risk management will vary from organisation to organisation and to increase the relevance it is anticipated that a significant degree of customisation will be required. Whilst best practice can be discussed it is preferable to use local examples where these are available.