- Agents' fees
- Clothing and dress codes
- Demoralization
- Family dislocation
- Food and alcohol
- Foreign business culture (including corruption)
- Hours of work
- Language
- Miscommunication
- Pay and conditions
- Quality culture
- Quality of business agent
- Rubber time
- Staff rejection
- Standard of living
- Working conditions
Health
- Disease
- Hospitalization
- Injury
- Lack of sanitation
- Medical treatment facilities and equipment not available or of low quality
- Occupational health requirements
- Personal health decline
- Poor accommodation
- Poor working conditions
- Repatriation
- Safety problems
- Vaccinations
Language
- Accuracy of technical translation
- Body language
- Channels of communication
- Facial expressions
- Humour
- Translation
- Use of interpreters
Legal/Regulatory
- Ineffective legal regimes
- Local bias in application of laws and regulations
- Unfamiliar legal environment
Offshore Location
- Availability of suitable accommodation
- Communication (remoteness, poor infrastructure)
- Costs of accommodation, health, travel
- Dangerous sites
- Emergency response
- Equipment (will it operate?)
- Import/export restrictions
- Material availability
- Need for additional resources or time
- Proximity to our offices
- Support (hardware, software, spares, expertise)
- Support from embassy or trade commission
- Timeframe
- Voltage compatibility
- Weather, climate (monsoon, temperature)
Offshore Skills
- Personnel leave after training
- Skills do not fit project work breakdown
- Skills not available at the site
- Suitable personnel to be sourced from elsewhere
Political
- National or racial preference
- Policy on repatriation of profits
- Project award on basis of political factors
- Relationship with home country
- Stability (unrest, riots, civil war)
Religion
- Holy days and festive seasons
- Prayer periods
- Fasting
- Births, deaths and marriages
Security
- National and community acceptance of foreigners
- National and community security
- Political situation
- Safety of staff and family members
- Security of staff and family members
- Site security
Staffing
- Domestic visits and communication
- Stability of employment
- Staff absences (e.g. illness, holidays, long service, leaving employment)
- Staff unwilling to take overseas assignments
Potential Treatments
This section offers examples of potential treatments for a small selection of risks. Organizations should develop their own lists of treatments for the most common risks they expect to face.
