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“These achievements highlight
Aurecon’s aptitude for providing
in-depth solutions to the complex
project risks that our clients
face,” says Simon van Wyk, an expert in risk
management at Aurecon, who is also an
Associate Member of IRMSA, a Corporate
Member of the Disaster Management Insti-
tute of Southern Africa (DMISA), as well as a
Professional Natural Scientist with the South
African Council for Natural Scientific Profes-
sions (SACNASP).
“Whilemany companies understand that
risk management brings value to a project,
there’s often still a learning curve that needs
to be overcome in order to get everyone on
board with understanding the objectives
and the true value add – especially the vital
importance of including risk management
during the design and execution phases of a
project,” believes Van Wyk.
Pioneering excellence in
RISK
MANAGEMENT
Aurecon South Africa’s operational
and project risk management team
recently won the award for ‘Best Risk
Consultancy’ at the 2014 annual Institute
of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA)
Awards. At the same event in 2013,
Aurecon was also the category winner in
the ‘Environmental Initiative’ category
and runner-up in the ‘Mining, Resources,
Construction, Engineering and Related
Services’ category.
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A holistic understanding
There are a number of risks, including
disaster risk, financial risk, environmental
risk and operational risk, that need to be
assessed and managed before a project can
commence, and none of these risks should
be viewed in a ‘silo’.
Several of Aurecon’s clients have been
factoring risk assessment and management
into their project costs during the concept
phase of projects for many years, so working
with these types of ‘risk mature’ clients
gives risk consultants the advantage of not
having to justify methodologies and what
might appear to be ‘over-analysis’ of project
risks. With clients who haven’t always been
working with risk management consultants,
tools and processes before, however, the risk
assessment process is not always the easiest
learning curve.
Simon van Wyk, an expert in risk management
at Aurecon.