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Risk Management Self-Assessment

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Culture and Behaviours

The Council's Risk Management Strategy aims to promote a positive and proactive risk management culture which encourages learning from both previous and future adverse events and allows careful decisions to be taken on risk which will increase the quality of service delivery for service users and employees.

Risk culture refers to the values, beliefs, general awareness, attitudes, and behaviours' of an organisation’s employees towards risk and how risk is managed within the organisation. Risk culture is a key indicator of how widely an organisation’s risk management policies and practices have been adopted.

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The Council encourages decision makers to be ‘risk aware’ rather than ‘risk averse’ - including a positive, transparent, and open response to incidents and escalating risks
The Council supports employees to be innovative and ‘risk aware’ in their approach to areas, such as transformation projects
The Council’s decisions - including risk controls and mitigation actions - are proportionately documented, monitored, and reviewed
The Council is responsive and innovative in managing risk