As most international organisations employ safety and risk management systems that encompass an international standard (ISO31000:2009), not everyone has the same understanding and perception of risk or values that presuppose the framework of this standard. Errors and violations that lead to accidents and incidents suggest individuals and organisations have different inherent risk acceptance traits. Moreover, aligning culture, emotional schema, and organisational values in the perception of risk is difficult to achieve in practice based on perception and behavioural norms. This is made even more pertinent against a backdrop of task or role conflict, ambiguity, and overload.The focus of this study looks to the psychometric and organisational predictors of perceived risk in a multi-country perspective to gain insight into the mediating and moderating effects of cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence, role stressors and organisation culture. This research is based on a number of overlapping theories such as the four factor model of cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence theory; social theory of risk; role stress theory; organisational culture theory; and person-organisation fit theory that embody factors that underpin the predictors of cultural values and perception within the international standards risk management