Core Issues in Regulatory & Risk-Control Practice

Gain expert insights on the core issues in regulatory & risk-control practice.

The CIRRP seminar covers fundamental questions in regulatory design and examines specific contemporary puzzles currently demanding attention from Australasian regulatory bodies. It thus provides a suitable orientation for newcomers to the regulatory business, appropriate for practitioners at any rank—from the front line to the Boardroom, and every level of management in between. It also offers seasoned regulatory professionals an opportunity to examine the broad array of possibilities in terms of regulatory strategy and practice and to use that richer picture as a backdrop for reflecting on their own past experiences and considering their future aspirations and plans.

Please note that this program emphasises management and practice of risk-control operations (i.e., regulatory practice) as opposed to the reform of law itself (regulatory policy). It is also oriented more towards social regulation (provision of safety, health, & security) rather than economic regulation (managing the efficient functioning of specific markets).

You will have opportunities, both during class discussions and outside class-time, to raise other issues you currently face and to draw on your own professional experience.

Attend and learn

• The relationship between compliance management and risk-control objectives
• Four different types of work—functional work, process-based work, problem-based work, and crisis response—and how they all fit together
• The role that values play in governing regulatory decision-making
• Defining and measuring success – The evolving nature of the regulatory performance account
• Special (“Wicked”) classes of Harms which complicate the task of controlling them
• How professional regulators can respond constructively to “de-regulatory” pressures

Who will attend

This course is designed principally for federal, state and local government regulatory and enforcement practitioners but is also suitable for anyone whose job entails risk-control or harm-reduction responsibilities (e.g., members of professional boards).

The course is suitable for both newcomers to regulatory practice, as an orientation, as well as seasoned regulatory professionals