Applied Risk Management for Infrastructure Projects

Overview
Course title: Applied Risk Management for Infrastructure Projects
Level: Introductory
Mode: On-demand
Language: English, with translations in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Price:  FREE
Training hours: 0.5 (30min)

This on-demand course introduces Applied Risk Management for Infrastructure Projects as the partner discipline to quality management, helping professionals protect and create value by identifying threats and opportunities that can affect objectives, stakeholder expectations, and the desired level of excellence. Using ISO 31000 as the backbone, the course covers core terminology, the starting point of leadership commitment and context-setting, and the five key steps: context, identification, analysis, evaluation, and treatment. It also highlights how governance, communication, monitoring, assurance, and performance management make risk management practical, embedded, and decision-focused across the full asset and project lifecycle.

Who should attend
This course is designed for infrastructure professionals who contribute to planning, delivering, operating, or assuring capital projects and assets, and who need a clear, structured approach to managing uncertainty. It is particularly relevant for Project Managers, Engineers, Construction Managers, Commercial and Contract Professionals, Quality and HSE Practitioners, Risk and Assurance Leads, and Advisors working in consultancy firms, asset owners, contractors, supply chains, joint ventures, and funding or oversight organisations.s.

Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
–  Understand why risk management is essential to delivering the desired level of excellence in global infrastructure.
–  Apply key ISO 31000 concepts and terminology to distinguish risks, issues, events, threats, opportunities, and uncertainty.
–  Explain and use the five-step risk management process: context, identification, analysis, evaluation, and treatment.
–  Recognise common human and organisational blockers that weaken risk management, and how to reduce blind spots and false assumptions.
–  Describe the governance and performance practices that make risk management effective, including communication, monitoring and review, assurance, and action management.