Risk management
Upcoming events
This event presents leaders with an opportunity to understand and address workforce challenges and provide evidence-based workforce insights, highlight priority workforce risk areas, and articulate the role of leaders in addressing and mitigating workforce risks.
This course is delivered from 20/10/2025 to 28/10/2025, by face-to-screen consisting of four 3.5-hour sessions.
This course is delivered from 19/11/2025 to 20/11/2025, by face-to-face consisting of two 8-hour sessions.
This course is delivered from 16/03/2026 to 24/03/2026, by face-to-screen consisting of four 3.5-hour sessions.
This course is delivered from 06/05/2026 to 07/05/2026, by face-to-face consisting of two 8-hour sessions.
This course is delivered from 22/06/2026 to 30/06/2026, by face-to-screen consisting of four 3.5-hour sessions.
Courses
Learn the essential skill of making good administrative decisions that are consistent with legal and policy frameworks is an essential skill. Examine legal authorities, case studies and how to review decisions.
In this course you will be introduced to the key principles and obligations associated with records management in the Australian Public Service.
This course should ignite your awareness about how our work and actions contribute to climate change and what it means for you and how it affects your work.
Climate risk and opportunity principles will build user understanding of the types of climate risks and opportunities that might be encountered through their work. Learners will be challenged to consider how their programs, projects, and policies interact with climate risk and possible opportunities relating to their work.
Applying the climate risk management guide, is designed to step users through the the process of assessing and managing climate risks and opportunities in the Australian Public Service.
Understand the project management process and tools for implementation and evaluation. This includes project planning, resource identification, implementation, deliverables and milestones, risk assessment, stakeholder management and governance.
This micro-bite explores the importance of fostering a culture that actively engages with risk, outlining what this looks like and key considerations for overcoming risk aversion within an entity.
This learning experience aligns with APS officers who are required to design, implement and embed an entity’s risk management framework.
This course is for senior executive service officials (SES) whose role requires them to identify and determine the acceptable levels of risk that are appropriate to their agency’s profile, allocate resources and lead the adoption of risk management policies, strategies and best practices.
The Introduction to Comcover eLearning course provides you with a foundational understanding of Comcover and its role in supporting Australian Government entities.
The course provides a foundation for understanding risk and its management in the Commonwealth. It introduces risk management principles and the Commonwealth Risk Management Policy.
Liaising with Comcover equips officials with knowledge to provide effective risk management advice and support in their entities.
This course will help to better understand indemnities and how to reduce likelihood and consequence of the risks that they present.
This course has been developed to help you understand what modern slavery is, and what you and your agency can do to practice ethical procurement practices and address modern slavery risks in government operations and supply chains.
This course is designed for Commonwealth officials whose role requires them to engage with and apply their entity’s risk management framework to successfully deliver outcomes.
This course is designed for Commonwealth officials whose role requires them to engage with and apply their entity’s risk management framework to successfully deliver outcomes.
Changes in our operating environment may impact risk appetite. This learning experience shares key considerations in understanding planning and managing your future and current activities in a changed environment.
This course provides key elements for risk managers to learn key elements of risk management processes to focus on and implement in a crisis and to navigate the uncertainties of the future.
Resources
Community of Practice for EL1/EL2 counter fraud or risk officials to drive leading edge control testing capability in the Australian Government.
A video outlining the Caretaker Conventions and providing guidance for APS employees on how to conduct themselves.
The Centre’s purpose is to strengthen counter fraud arrangements across the Australian Government. It provides educational material, leading practice guides, toolkits and training.
Community of Practice for EL1/EL2 counter fraud or risk officials to learn about fraud and corruption risk management.
The Commonwealth Fraud and Corruption Control Framework supports Australian Government entities to effectively manage the risks of fraud and corruption.
Services Australia’s Program Practice Frameworks can be used as standalone resources, or as suite of connected products to support staff when managing programs and projects, engaging with stakeholders and conducting analysis. The Frameworks feature focus areas which include a set of guidelines, applied tools, resources and links to other relevant and appropriate materials.
The Department of Defence hosts a quarterly community of practice (CoP) for APS Public Interest Disclosure practitioners.