Features – Page 12

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    Recruit without risk

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The importance of corporate reputations, shrinking work pools, increased equal opportunities legislation and the financial risks of non-compliance should prompt companies to fully address equal employ

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    Sick notes

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack looks at the growing focus on absence management, and at how Tesco is tackling the issue

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    Comment

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Serious pollution incidents are down on 2002

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    Disclosing The Facts

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    New legislation will encourage UK companies to provide more information for stakeholders But, without compulsion, will anything change?

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    Managing a Disaster

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    You need to be sure that you can manage after a disaster rather than letting the disaster manage you, say Clive Fletcher-Wood and Alyson Tanner

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    The new face of Enterprise Risk

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Enterprise risk is changing, with personnel-based employee and organisational risks becoming more important Simon Kunzler and Andros Payne provide some guidance on managing them new threats.

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    Managing Information

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Risk managers who want to be at the centre of the information hub would benefit from the new generation of centralised information management systems, says Alain Gray

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    Captives and Hard market questions

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    David Hertzell looks at some of the issues that captive owners and managers are now addressing

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    Asbestos Update

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Over 100 years after it was first publicly revealed in a UK parliamentary report to be hazardous to health, asbestos has made an unwelcome return to the top of organisations' risk registers, says Neil

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    Are you being given the whole story?

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    CEOs, finance directors and risk managers are recognising the need to outsource part of the due diligence process prior to corporate transactions, in order to make sure that nothing suspicious is lurk

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    Honouring the Pensions promise

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The risk from defined benefit pension promises is inextricably linked to the sponsoring company's finances This was always the case but the accounting standard FRS17 has emphasised it in a way that ma

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    Sour Milk

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack looks at Parmalat's problems and at how they might have been detected sooner

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    Feeling the Effects

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    While only eligible UK companies will fall within the Sarbanes-Oxley net, the UK government is considering additional legislation that will apply to all David Saunders writes.

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    Meeting Future Needs

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    What training and qualities do Europe's risk managers need to meet current and future needs? Three European academics give their views

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    GOING BARE FOR SHAREHOLDERS

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack discusses BP's approach to risk and insurance

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    CARRYING THE CAN

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Who should take responsibility when things go wrong - the company or its individual directors? - asks Tan Ikram

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    PUTTING REPUTATION MANAGEMENT INTO PRACTICE

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Basil Towers looks at how leading organisations manage their reputations

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    MORE THAN COMPLIANCE

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the UK government's bid to revitalise health and safety, Andy Shaw believes that many companies are still not doing enough Practitioners need a new approach.

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    NO ACCOUNTING FOR MISTAKES

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Gary Hazzard explores the increased responsibility of company executives to ensure financial reporting is accurate, and explains how software solutions can help

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    THE NEW UK REGIME

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The Combined Code on Corporate Governance, published on 23 July 2003 will affect companies in respect of their reporting years beginning on or after 1 November 2003 How should you manage risk under th