All Risk News articles – Page 239
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Online onlyBP fined $87m for safety failures
Labour safety authorities issue BP with a record fine after it fails to eliminate hazards that caused the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion
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Fewer Health & Safety investigations
Figures reveal the number of HSE investigations declined by 43% in five years
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AIRMIC Portfolio
The future is Live
Airmic consulted its members on its future activities via a dial-in telephone discussion as part of the Airmic Live! Series.The discussion was chaired by Lynda Lucas of Fujitsu, and the Airmic panel of chairman Paul Howard, chief executive John Hurrell and technical director Paul Hopkin outlined plans for the future ...
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Interviews
Risk manager careers
After nine months, the Airmic Academy has taken stock of how it has so far delivered knowledge and skills for different grades of risk management professionals. In particular, the exercise has highlighted soft skills as something it should offer in future.The Academy is gradually being moulded to more accurately reflect ...
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AIRMIC PortfolioConsulting on captives
Although the European Commission accepted that the future regulation of captive insurance companies should be proportionate to their type of business, the definition of a captive in Solvency II is narrow and likely to affect non-EU domiciled captive insurers significantly, Airmic believes. Airmic’s captive special interest group is preparing a ...
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AIRMIC PortfolioFinancial crisis could happen again
The financial crisis could take place all over again, BBC business editor Robert Peston told this year’s Airmic lecture. Peston and Zurich Group chief economist Daniel Hofmann were joint lecturers in an evening concerned with the aftermath of the financial crisis.Quite a lot that needs to be done is not ...
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AnalysisWork until you drop?
People with too few savings; possibly an end to the default retirement age. Welcome to the world of the older workforce. Will your organisation measure up?
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AnalysisThe night shift risk
Can shift work cause cancer? A growing body of evidence suggests that it may. And the first compensation has already been paid out.
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AnalysisNew pandemic insurance cover
Aon launches policy to reimburse companies for wages, fixed costs and extra expenses if they are unable to access their buildings
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FeaturesMaking ERM work for you
Enterprise risk management (ERM) was the theme of the latest StrategicRISK Question Time event, held in association with Marsh Risk Consulting. Nathan Skinner reports
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InterviewsPrepare more to avoid pirates
30 out of 31 recent pirate attacks could have been avoided, says MARLO
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Online onlyBSI to develop financial services compliance standard
The UK’s standards body, the BSI, has developed a standard for compliance teams in UK financial services firms.
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Online onlyUS sanctions North Korean bank
The US Treasury has placed restrictions on a North Korean development bank because of its links to the arms trade
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Online onlyGibraltar ‘white listed’
Gibraltar has signed 13 tax information sharing agreements and thus moves onto the OECD white list
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Online onlyWillis appoints new COO of captives
Pauline Margrett is promoted to chief operating officer of the brokers Global Captive Practice
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Marsh offers D&O tool for small clients
New product measures the effectiveness of a company’s D&O policy
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Online onlyObama praises NY terror cops
The US President said the security services are “more integrated, more collaborative, and more effective than ever before
