SAMRA case studies
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The SAMRA exam tests whether a candidate can run a risk assessment end to end: framing the risk question, choosing a method, gathering evidence, scoring likelihood and consequence, deciding on treatment, and communicating the result to people who will act on it. It is aimed at practitioners who already touch risk in their work - risk officers, project and program managers, auditors, compliance and operations staff, analysts, and engineers with safety or quality responsibilities - and who want a structured, defensible way to demonstrate that competence. The SAMRA case studies are 5 cases and about 3,577 words.
1AGV Commissioning at NorthBridge Cold Chain
NorthBridge Cold Chain operates a 12,000 m² refrigerated warehouse and is nine weeks from commissioning 18 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for pallet movement. The risk register contains 28 entries, dominated by 'AGV equipment failure' and 'cyber attack'; most were copied from the vendor's generic list.
823 words, about 4 min2Autoclave Resilience at St. Aiden's Hospital
Aiden's Hospital's central sterile services department (CSSD) processes 180,000 instrument sets a year using two steam autoclaves: Unit A is 12 years old and Unit B is 3 years old. A single autoclave failure creates a 36-hour turnaround backlog, and last year there were three failures with a mean repair time of nine hours; one lasted 22 hours and forced cancellation of 11 elective procedures.
648 words, about 3 min3Board Risk Reporting at MetroLink Infrastructure Agency
MetroLink Infrastructure Agency manages 14 capital projects worth £310m. The quarterly board risk report shows three red risks, but the heat map is built from project managers' self-assessed scores using different likelihood scales.
727 words, about 4 min4ERP Integration Failure at Helix Group
Helix Group is four months into an 18-month ERP replacement programme budgeted at 6.2m, with a contingency of 400k. Eight of 14 integration tests have failed, mainly in payroll and inventory interfaces.
685 words, about 3 min5Resilience Investment at Valemont Water
Valemont Water supplies 320,000 customers from a single treatment works that provides 70% of supply. Its SCADA system runs on an unsupported operating system; a cyber incident last year caused a five-hour telemetry loss and was contained without service interruption.
694 words, about 3 min