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44 • Touchline • Issue 16
ife or living is a risky business. From the moment
we get out of bed in the morning we are exposing
ourselves to risk. Whether we travel to work, work
a full day, play sport, eat, go on holidays or do
anything at all, there is a degree of risk.
We cannot stay in bed just because we may be involved in an
accident on the roads, or suffer an injury playing sport. What a
terrible life it would be if we were not prepared to embrace all
the things that make a life thrilling, enjoyable and rewarding.
Firstly we need to acknowledge that each of our “life”
situations – playing, travelling, working, relaxing – will expose
us to some degree of risk, or in other words open us up to a
degree of danger, harm or potential loss.
What we do need to do, in all the things that we embark upon,
is to be aware of the risks associated with our activities and,
where possible, reduce the danger, harm or loss in what we
are doing. Many people will do this automatically for many of
their everyday activities, but whether it is a regular and familiar
activity or a completely new one, we should go through a
process as follows:
Phil Stevens
has spent much of his life involved with analysing and minimising risk. During
the many years that Phil was the CEO of Australia’s largest football body, the Victorian Amateur
Football Association he spent a great deal of time educating the 10,000 registered Amateur
players, its 73 clubs and over 210 teams that the game can be a much more enjoyable past-time if
everyone recognises the need to minimise or control risky situations.
Now, as Operations Manager of risk management specialists VRA, which conducts risk assessments
on properties, Phil says we should all take risk management seriously whatever we are doing.
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