All Risk News articles – Page 304
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Around the exhibition
StrategicRISK gives a guided tour of what's on offer on the AIRMIC stands today
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If you have a problem, our agony uncle Blondin has the answers...
My spouse doesn't understand me
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Benchmarking initiative launch
Oxygen Insurance Brokers and Advisen reveal plans to provide on-demand programme benchmarking
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AnalysisFace up to climate change
Companies need to face up to the realities of climate change and the risks that it poses to their long term interests. Environment and Climate Change Minister Ian Pearson, addressing a meeting of US businesses in New York on 9 May, said that a business's vulnerability to the threats of ...
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Measuring risk management success
One of the key challenges facing risk management professionals is the ability to demonstrate a link between enterprise risk management and improved financial performance that usually comes in the form of reduced earnings volatility. At this workshop, hosted by Eddie McLaughlin, managing director of risk consulting, Marsh Ltd, James Maxwell, ...
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Preventing unwanted legacies
According to Gartner, between 30% and 40% of IT departments do not care about cutting their carbon footprint, and only 10% are being active in developing relevant policies to address the issue of their energy use. These statistics are staggering in today's society, where we are all encouraged to recycle ...
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Improving safety on site
Building sites can be dangerous places. Andrew Stokes and Chris Baranowski believe that CDM 2007 should reduce bureaucracy and make it easier for everyone to understand their responsibilities
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Find a partnership that works
Ed Huston discusses how to set up a successful affinity partnership
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Dangerous time
Philip O'Keeffe and Chris Monk say that many organisations are still failing to embrace effective supply risk management – and give some tips on how it should be done
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Directive creates uncertainty
Pollution liability and its insurance have been the subject of much controversy over the last 30 years. The situation for firms operating in the UK and Europe is about to become even more challenging as new legislation begins to bite. Chris Tagg writes“He is no wise man that will quit ...
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Unwelcome correspondence
Recent UK letter-bomb attacks highlight the fact that mail remains a point of vulnerability. Richard Thompson gives some pointers on protection
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Corporate responsibility
At a workshop hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, directors Jon Hauck and Tina Trickett set out to explore what corporate responsibility is and what is driving its future, in front of a mildly sceptical audience. Their theme was that the issue was of growing importance to organisations, and that big statements from ...
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More than corporate philanthropy
Jon Hauck says that corporate responsibility is now recognised as a crucial element of success
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Coping with a crisis – or responding to an incident?
The debate continues on continuity terminology. Peter Power gives his view
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A duty of care
Do not neglect your obligations to employees who drive while at work, urges John Harley
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New UK D&O cover launched
XL Insurance has broadened its UK directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance policy
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Tackle cross-border fraud
Research show corporations are often ill-prepared to investigate fraud or misconduct quickly
