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Risk Assessment
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As part of the Achiever Plus GRC Management Solution , Achiever Plus Risk Assessment integrates the risk assessment processes within Achiever Plus Document Management. This seamless link between processes and their associated risks promotes good governance, effective compliance and business improvement.
Effective risk management is elemental for managing adherence to corporate Governance, Risk management and Compliance (GRC) requirements.
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Resources are an expensive commodity which need to be managed effectively so that maximum benefit from investment can be achieved. A risk-based approach will help to efficiently manage these valuable resources, so adopting an effective risk assessment system at a strategic and operational level will ensure that high risk and high cost activities are identified and managed with appropriate controls, across the organization.
Specific features and benefits include:
• Risk Assessments for Business Strategy, IT, Health and Safety, Environmental and Financial are stored in a central, easy to manage document repository.
• Assessment of risk is calculated based on severity, probability and detectability, adhering to best practices and engendering process improvement.
• Association of a risk assessment with one or more standards or pieces of legislation, ensures that adherence to individual compliance requirements can be demonstrated.
• Actions can be raised against risk assessments, ensuring that effective controls are applied to all identified risks.
• Electronic workflow processes speed up the ability to produce new or revised assessments, and eliminate the need for a paper chase for editing and approvals
• Security of information is managed through role based access across the organisation, automatically protecting access and escalations.
FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION
• Customer configurable assessment types, categorisation and keywords ensure that the system reflects the business needs and that users can find information through an intuitive interface.
• Configured default settings for review, approval and distribution, ensure control of approval information and ease of use for document creators.
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WORKFLOW AND ESCALATION PROCESSES
• The requirement for a periodic re-assessment of risk is automated by the system, ensuring that risks and their controls are always kept current.
• All requested reviews, approvals and notifications are sent via email notification, using existing familiar email systems. This supports fast user acceptance and reduces training requirements.
• Incomplete actions, reviews and approvals can be escalated using a configurable escalation engine, ensuring that all tasks are monitored to completion.
MANAGEMENT REPORTING FOR GRC DOCUMENTATION
• Reports of risk by severity ensure that urgent items are quickly identified.
• Reports identify all outstanding actions in the system, making the task of prioritisation easier and highlighting potential problems.
INTEGRATION WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE
• Document content is created with a familiar word processor.
• Process flows created in Microsoft Visio.
INTEGRATION WITH TRAINING & SKILLS
• Association of risk assessments with job descriptions ensures that relevant documents are identified for new employees automatically.
• Automated creation of training requirements ensure that updates to risk assessments will automatically initiate a notification of the need for training.
• Easy identification of acknowledgements and visibility as to who needs training.
INTEGRATION WITH OTHER MODULES
• Incident Reporting: Individual incidents can be associated with completed risk assessments, quickly identifying the more dangerous or most at risk business processes.
• Equipment Management: Asset records can be linked to risk assessments, recording which assessment applies to the equipment concerned.
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Our customers say...
“Our ability to keep our complex and diverse working environment and our staff, passengers and partners safe and well is made considerably easier by our use of Achiever Plus”
Louis Smith, Group Health & Safety Performance Manager, BAA
“Achiever Plus is a tremendously powerful flexible and responsive tool.. it has brought about significant positive changes to the way we do business and made a major contribution to the quality of service we can provide our customers. “ Further “We are one of the very few companies in the UK who have maintained their employer’s liability insurance costs in the last three years, where others have, on average, experienced a five fold increase
David Jellicoe, National Safety & Security Manager, Schneider Electric Ltd.
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Achiever Plus GRC Management Solution
Achiever Business Solutions has uniquely provided business management software solutions since 1993. Steady growth has funded continuing development of what is now a fully unified Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) management solution – Achiever Plus. With over 600 active clients across the globe, using Achiever Plus for up to 38 areas of compliance management with a single solution, Achiever Plus has an unbeatable track record.
Today there are many legislative, regulatory and best-practice standards affecting organizations and the number and complexity of these requirements is forecast to increase. Organizations need a system which will ensure that they both comply with the latest standards and can easily incorporate new demands at any time. Leading business analysts recommend a single integrated GRC system approach, to simply management and reduce costs.
Achiever Plus GRC management solution addresses these business-critical issues, forming the foundation for a single corporate wide unified GRC platform. Achiever Plus GRC management solutions provide the functionality to cover multiple compliance areas, including Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001, Life Sciences, IS0 27001 and multiple industry specific compliance requirements.
Integration with Microsoft and other Achiever Plus modules within the GRC suite delivers a single, fast to deploy and easy to manage GRC platform. |
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