WSP services

Corporate Risk

Reputational & Social Risk

Investors, employees, customers and suppliers will analyse your company`s performance. And they are analysing more than just the financial performance. Under scrutiny will be your reputation and social and ethical performance.

Reviews & Audits

At WSP we have the capability to structure and deliver a full scale review of your potential exposure to risk. This in addition to advising you on how to implement change management programmes to minimise that exposure. Our risk management approach identifies, assesses and rates each risk you face. It has the obvious advantage of enabling you to control the risks and manage the issues to your advantage. In Australia we have a specialist team delivering what we call `Risk Solutions` for clients. They have developed a `9 core strategic risk management standard` that can be applied to any organisation to review and identify exposure to risk.

Culture Change Programmes

There are many environmental, sustainability, health and safety and ethical issues that drive an organisations leadership team to pursue a behavioural and cultural change management process. Critically, successful cultural change will come from commitment, vision and visible leadership on the issue from the senior management team. It is absolutely right for leaders to ask: `what do I gain from doing this - what are the risks?` These should be examined, and at WSP we can help you conduct thorough risk management audits that highlight where behavioural change is required to minimise risk and reduce the environmental impact of a business. Ultimately having identified the risks from not taking action, the challenge is to drive change that everyone buys into. And the route to changing employee behaviours starts with ownership, advocacy and commitment from the leadership.

Management Programmes & Systems

At WSP, our approach to management systems is to ensure they deliver real action at grass roots level in a business. We ensure they result in understanding and change, and they add real value to a business. We support clients in developing, implementing, maintaining and optimising their systems and programmes. With RABQSA registered auditors we cover health and safety, and our teams also look at environmental, sustainability, social and ethical performance, and your adherence to all related regulatory compliance. We appreciate that your clients and industry regulators increasingly view certified management systems as an essential indicator of good business management. At WSP we can help you establish appropriate systems to reflect the practices of your business, gain the internal buy-in, and achieve external standards where relevant, for example, ISO14001:2004, BS8555, OHSAS 18001 or EMAS.

Business Continuity Planning

Our Risk Solutions team help clients` position business continuity as an important issue at the very centre of their organisation. Thankfully disasters are an extremely rare occurrence in the life of most businesses. However, the possibility of fire, major incident, terrorism, a pandemic or a natural disaster cannot be ignored. Contingencies to prevent or lessen the outcome of disasters are imperative for all businesses.

Online Risk Tracking

A transparent demonstration of effective risk management practices is critical to any large organisation. At WSP we have developed an online risk register which helps organisations to track key business risks and the implementation of mitigation strategies. This is especially relevant around occupational health, safety and environmental risks. Our online risk tracking tool will help you establish accountability for managing risks and provides you with an easy way to demonstrate effective risk management practices. Our Risk Management specialists have developed a model that focuses on 9 core standards of risk management, and these factors sit within our easy to use online risk register.

Environmental Liabilities

Contaminated land has the potential to affect human health or our environment. By assessing the possibilities and consequences of the effect of contaminated sites, we provide stakeholders with the ability to make informed business decisions on their potential obligations. Put simply, when it comes to advising on the liabilities associated with contaminated land we know what we are talking about. Across the world our specialists in this field can model the likelihood of pollutant movements and the possibility of scenario occurrence with the effects this could have on our ecosystems and human health. We also use financial modelling techniques to quantify environmental risk for impacted organisations and will advise how best to minimise it.