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Critical Control Management
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Executive Critical Control Governance

For the owners and directors who need to know, not hope, that the controls preventing a fatality are working.

  • SeriesCritical Control Management
  • AudienceBusiness owners, directors and senior managers
  • Duration90–120 minutes
  • CodeCCM-04
  • Version1.0 · 1.1 MB ZIP

About this package

A business with fatal risks can report no lost time injuries for years while the controls that stand between its people and a fatality slowly erode. Owners, directors and senior managers decide whether critical control management is resourced and taken seriously, and are the ones asked afterwards what they knew.

This briefing covers what critical control management is and is not, what the board should receive about critical controls, why injury rates say little about fatal risk, how to read verification results, and how to respond to a significant control failure. Officer duties are covered accurately for each jurisdiction, including Victoria, where the law takes a different form.

Learning outcomes

After the session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the governance responsibilities for critical risks, and how officer duties differ between jurisdictions
  • Explain why injury frequency rates do not measure fatal risk
  • Interpret critical control verification reporting critically, and recognise results that are too green to be true
  • Tell an isolated control failure from a systemic one, and know which needs the board
  • Recognise and respond to a significant critical control failure
  • Resource critical control management deliberately, knowing what doing it properly takes
  • Set clear accountability for critical risks and controls, and ask 'how do you know?'

Training outline

MODULE 1

The green dashboard

  • What boards typically receive
  • Why injury rates say nothing about fatal risk
MODULE 2

What governance requires

  • Three things the board must know about critical risks
  • Officer duties by jurisdiction, including Victoria
  • Lessons from inquiries into workplace fatalities
  • What critical control management is not
MODULE 3

Reporting

  • What the board should receive
  • Reading verification results that tell you something
  • Leading and lagging indicators for critical risk
MODULE 4

Assurance

  • How a control stays green on paper
  • Isolated or systemic?
  • Is your assurance real?
  • A production push, stage by stage

What is in the package

Briefing

  • Editable 28-slide executive presentation with speaker notes, plus PDF
  • Facilitator guide with running sheet, slide notes, debrief and model answers
  • Session plan
  • Executive briefing workbook

Governance tools

  • Critical control reporting example: a typical green safety report and the same organisation reported properly
  • Governance scenario: the production target that outran the controls
  • Assurance checklist with the executive question set
  • Board critical risk report template

Assessment and administration

  • Ten-question knowledge check and answer guide
  • Completion certificate template
  • Attendance register
  • Training evaluation form

Start here

  • Read Me First guide
  • Product overview
  • Permitted use terms
  • Version information

Practical activities

  • Read the report: executives compare a typical green safety report with the same organisation's critical control verification results, and name the decisions they call for
  • The production push: a decision to lift output worked through four stages, from the approval to a serious control failure
  • The executive question set: applied to the organisation's own current critical risk reporting

Delivery requirements

  • A facilitator who can brief at executive level, typically the senior WHS or risk lead
  • A screen for the presentation, or a video meeting platform
  • Suits a board, executive team or leadership meeting

File formats

  • PowerPoint (.pptx), editable
  • Word (.docx), editable
  • Excel (.xlsx) for registers and records
  • PDF copies of every guide and workbook
  • Delivered as a single ZIP download

Questions about this package

Is this suitable for a small business owner?

Yes, where the business has risks that could kill. It works as a briefing for an owner and their managers, a small leadership team or a board, in under two hours, and stands on its own.

Does it cover Victoria?

Yes. Victoria's OHS Act takes a different form from the harmonised WHS laws, including how officers can be liable, and the briefing explains the difference rather than assuming one model.

Can we edit the documents?

Yes. Presentations, guides, workbooks and templates are supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them to your workplace. The copyright notice must stay.

Can we use the packages outside Australia?

Yes. The method applies in any workplace and follows the same principles as ISO 31000 (risk management) and ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety management systems). The legal content refers to Australian work health and safety (WHS and OHS) laws, so a business elsewhere should replace those slides with its own country's requirements. The materials are editable for exactly that.

Do participants get a certificate?

Yes. The package includes an editable completion certificate template, plus an attendance register or training records spreadsheet, so you can keep proof of who completed the training for your WHS records. It is a certificate of completion issued by your business, not a nationally recognised qualification.

Can we deliver it face to face and online?

Yes. The packages are designed for face-to-face sessions and work over a video meeting platform. The facilitator guide notes where an activity needs adjusting for online delivery.

Can we run it more than once?

Yes, as many times as you like, for your own organisation's workers.

What is your refund policy?

Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not affected. See the Refund Policy for how we handle a package that is faulty, not as described, or not what you ordered.

Do we get future updates?

You keep the version you bought for as long as you use it, and corrections to that version are made available to you. A new edition, for example following a significant change in the law, may be sold separately.

More answers on the home page, or contact us.

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