All Risk News articles – Page 305
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Building assessment
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance extends commercial insurance and risk management product range
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Risk management enables growth
Survey says risk management is now seen as a key contributor to a company’s source of competitive advantage
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Scary, manageable or insurable?
Risk manager for The Polestar Group says public liability insurers should consider providing more cover for environmental liability
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UK better for whistleblowers
Survey shows European employees fear reprisals at work for whistle-blowing
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Regulation: a step too far?
Marsh report suggests regulation in the UK is seen as key risk issue
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New authority launched to manage REACH directive
European Chemical Authority launched in Finland to ensure consistent plan European chemcial standards
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New EU chemicals regulation
New European chemicals agency starts operations as REACH enters into force
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OECD's Gurría welcome's Zoellick nomination for World Bank
Gurría said appointment will contribute to expanding co-operation between the World Bank and the OECD.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Still time to register
There is still time to register for the AIRMIC 2007 conference, Gaining Competitive Advantage through Risk Management, which takes place on 5 and 6 June at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster. The cost of attending is included in the subscription for AIRMIC members. The event begins with training ...
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Analysis
Still not prepared
Multinational corporations are facing increasingly diverse, complex and exotic risks, and may not have all the resources in place to manage them effectively, according to Aon's first global risk management survey.More than half of the survey's 320 respondents said they were not prepared for the risk they rated as most ...
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Can pay, will pay?
Commercial insurance buyers need more information about insurers' willingness to pay claims promptly and fairly, as opposed to their financial ability to do so, according to AIRMIC technical director Paul Hopkin. As a result, AIRMIC is in the early stages of developing an index that would supplement solvency ratings. He ...
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London Olympics – Risk and rewards
More than 150 people came to the conference rooms at West Ham stadium in East London to hear about the vast project that is the organisation of the 2012 Olympics, and some of the risk management implications for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the host local authorities, the rail network ...
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European Round-up
Themes and highlights
Global responsibility and sustainability are the themes of this year's FERMA Risk Forum in Geneva. Highlights include the following
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Analysis
New guidance on physical interventions
BIIAB (the leading awarding body for the UK licensed retail sector) and Skills for Security (the skills and standards setting body for the security business sector) have launched a good practice guide to address the issue of physical interventions. The aim is to reduce the incidence and impact of injury ...
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European Round-up
New mutual goes live
History was made in the UK on 1 April when the first local authority insurance company established in over a century went live. After two years' hard work, and only after meeting a set of tough criteria laid down by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the London Authorities' Mutual Limited ...
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Risk Management is no fairly tale
Risk and insurance managers do not believe in fairy tales. This will become clear at the 11th annual congress organised by NARIM, the Dutch professional organisation of risk and insurance managers. The congress, with the theme Risk Management: fairy tale or a true story, takes place in Veldhoven in the ...
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Record investment in environment and safety
Capital spending on environment, health and safety by the Finnish chemical industry reached record figures in 2006, according to the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland (CIFF). The sector invested a total of some €86m, an amount equal to more than 14% of fixed investment by the sector and a rise ...
