STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND MEDIA RELEASE
26 November 2009
New risk management Standard available now – seminars planned for early 2010
The new Risk management – Principles and guidelines Standard, AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 is available now for purchase from
Standards New Zealand. AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 is a joint Australia/New Zealand adoption of the newly published ISO
31000:2009, and supersedes AS/NZS 4360:2004.
Its predecessor, AS/NZS 4360 Risk management, was first published in 1995. After AS/NZS 4360 was last revised in 2004,
the joint Australia/New Zealand committee OB-007 decided that rather than undertake a similar revision in 2009, it would
promote the development of an international Standard on risk management, which could then be adopted locally.
The new Standard provides organisations with guiding principles, a generic framework, and a process for managing risk.
New to this edition is the inclusion of 11 risk management principles an organisation should comply with, and a
management framework for the effective implementation and integration of these principles into an organisation’s
management system. Unlike previous editions, emphasis is given to considering risk in terms of the effect of uncertainty
on objectives, rather than the risk incident.
This new edition also includes an informative annex that sets out the attributes of enhanced risk management for those
organisations that have already been working on managing their risks and may wish to strive for a higher level of
achievement.
Enabling effective risk management as outlined in AS/NZS ISO 31000 will assist organisations to:
• increase the likelihood of achieving objectives
•
•
• be aware of the need to identify and treat risk throughout the organisation
•
•
• improve the identification of opportunities and threats
•
•
• comply with relevant legal and regulatory requirements and international norms
•
•
• improve financial reporting
•
•
• improve governance
•
•
• improve stakeholder confidence and trust
•
•
• establish a reliable basis for decision-making and planning
•
•
• improve controls
•
•
• effectively allocate and use resources for risk treatment
•
•
• improve operational effectiveness and efficiency
•
•
• enhance health and safety performance, as well as environmental protection
•
•
• improve loss prevention and incident management
•
•
• minimise losses
•
•
• improve organisational learning
•
•
• improve organisational resilience.
•
•
HB 436:2004 Risk management guidelines – Companion to AS/NZS 4360:2004 can be used as a supplementary handbook to AS/NZS
ISO 31000:2009 and provides practical advice to help organisations to apply AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009. This handbook is
currently being revised and is expected to be published in early 2010.
Seminars planned for 2010
AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 seminars are planned for late February/March in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. To
register your interest, please email seminars@standards.co.nz with your details.
Order or download AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 from www.standards.co.nz, email enquiries@standards.co.nz, or call 0800 782 632.
Get the latest Standards news in Touchstone, Standards New Zealand monthly electronic magazine at
www.standards.co.nz/touchstone. To sign up to receive monthly updates about Standards in sectors relevant to you, visit
www.standards.co.nz/touchstone, scroll to the end and click ‘subscribe’.
Keywords
Risk management Standard, managing risk, risk management principles, business risk, management system, management
framework, general business, legal and regulatory requirements, financial reporting, governance, minimise losses,
organisational learning, organisational resilience, stakeholder confidence, decision-making and planning, operational
effectiveness and efficiency, health and safety performance, environmental protection, loss prevention, incident
management.
ends