Scaling Enterprise Risk Management in High-Risk Industries: Tools that Close the Gaps  

Missing critical risks in environments like healthcare, construction, manufacturing, or transportation can trigger workplace accidents, regulatory breaches, and multi-million-dollar financial losses.  

Fatalities in the workplace may be the greatest illustration of unabated critical risk. Even with advances in safety protocols today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that workplace fatalities continue to hover around 5,000 deaths each year. 

Part of the difficulty lies in scale. As organizations grow more complex, they need a common foundation to track exposures and manage controls across sites, teams, and business units. That foundation is a risk and control library: the catalog that shows not just what the risks are, but how they’re being managed. When it’s incomplete or outdated, blind spots emerge, and the consequences show up in safety incidents, failed audits, or compliance issues.  

Building that foundation is difficult. Teams can spend months trying to define every risk from scratch or fall back on static templates that don’t reflect real operations. Either way, the result is the same: delays, inconsistencies, and exposures that make it hard to scale enterprise risk management (ERM). Closing these gaps has become one of the defining challenges for risk leaders today.  

What’s Slowing You Down? The Most Common ERM Roadblock 

Strong ERM programs share a few defining qualities: they are consistent, comprehensive, current, actionable, and scalable. Risks and controls are defined in common terms, libraries capture both industry-wide exposures and site-specific realities, updates keep pace with regulation, and every risk is tied to clear controls and accountability. When those pieces are in place, ERM can scale across sites and business units without reinvention.  

But this is also where many teams stall. Building and maintaining that kind of foundation takes time and alignment, which are hard to sustain. Hours are spent defining risks and mapping controls, yet one department’s approach rarely matches another’s. Templates like spreadsheets, generic catalogs, or audit checklists may offer a starting point, but they aren’t built for the complexity of real operations. 

Risk libraries built this way often:  

• Use inconsistent language across departments, making reporting confusing. 
• Miss emerging or site-specific risks that don’t appear in the template. 
• Struggle to keep pace with regulatory or operational changes. 
• Leave audit trails incomplete or disjointed. 

Instead of creating a foundation to scale ERM, teams end up with risk and controls libraries that feel stitched together. While workable in the moment, they are too inconsistent to grow with the organization.  

Introducing the AI Risk and Control Explorer: Faster Build, Clearer Controls 

ERM programs need a structure that adapts as fast as operations change, and a foundation strong enough to support growth, audits, and evolving regulations. Origami Risk’s new AI Risk and Control Explorer is designed to help risk managers meet that need.  

For Organizations Building an ERM Foundation 
Instead of starting from scratch or relying on static templates, teams can enter a natural language prompt and generate risks and controls aligned to their industry, regulatory framework, or operational scenario.  

This provides a structured starting point in minutes rather than months, giving risk managers more time to focus on scaling programs and managing exposures.   

For Established Teams Under Pressure 
Rather than reworking risk and control information piecemeal or scrambling to keep pace with audits and regulatory updates, teams can use the AI Risk and Control Explorer to quickly refresh what they already have.  

It supports expanding scope, aligning multiple facilities under one framework, and ensuring controls remain consistent and current. This makes it easier to maintain maturity and demonstrate resilience without adding administrative burden.   

The AI Risk and Control Explorer doesn’t replace expertise. It gives teams more time to apply it. Instead of spending months aligning on definitions, risk managers can focus on strengthening programs, coordinating across sites, and preparing for audits with greater confidence in the consistency of their controls.  

The Fastest Path to a Stronger ERM Program 

Origami Risk’s AI Risk and Control Explorer is built to help risk teams keep their programs consistent, current, and ready for scrutiny, often with limited time and resources.  

See how Origami Risk can help your team: 

• Spend less time on definitions, more time on action.
• Keep risk and control libraries aligned across sites and departments.
• Stay prepared for audits and regulatory change without added burden.   

Schedule a personalized demo to learn more about Origami Risk’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) solution.