Interviews
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InterviewsThe strategist: FERMA’s new president has a gameplan to elevate the influence of risk
As Charlotte Hedemark takes up her dream role as FERMA president, she tells StrategicRISK editor Sara Benwell that helping risk managers to professionalise and elevate their strategic influence are key goals.
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InterviewsThe historian: Dirk Wegener shares the lessons he’s learnt in over 20 years of risk management
Dirk Wegener is stepping down as president of FERMA. After more than two decades in risk management, he has seen it all. Here he reflects on the world-changing events that altered the way we think about resilience forever.
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InterviewsAirmic 2023: Julia Graham - risk managers are centre stage in a world of permacrisis
Are we in a state of polycrisis or permacrisis? Either way, it’s an interesting time to head up a risk management association. But Airmic CEO Julia Graham only sees this as an opportunity to spotlight the profession, tackling new and evolving risks with a spirit of collaboration.
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InterviewsHow Patrick Smith is managing Deliveroo’s intangible risks
Much more than a food delivery service, Deliveroo serves up vast amounts of big data – and fresh new risks – daily. It relies on business resilience leader Patrick Smith to stay creative.
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InterviewsTalent-pinching and building information modelling are top risks for UK construction market
Nigel Hitchborn, group risk manager for one of the UK’s leading construction firms, Shepherd Group, explains what needs to be done to prevent and mitigate these risks
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InterviewsFive minutes with: New Airmic board member Colin Barker
Barker was elected onto Airmic’s board today and tells us what he is looking forward to most in this role
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InterviewsAirmic 2014: Q&A with Airmic’s new junior chair
John Ludlow, senior vice-president and head of global risk management at InterContinental Hotels Group, has been appointed Airmic’s new junior chair. He shares his views on how and why risk management has changed
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InterviewsManaging risk in the fashion business: Sabrina Hartusch
There’s more to the lingerie industry than meets the eye and, as Triumph’s global head of insurance reveals, the key to successful risk management lies in communication
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InterviewsBorn ready
StrategicRISK’s European Risk Manager of the Year 2012 John Ludlow, of InterContinental Hotels, developed his risk management system while rescuing the Toby carvery chain. And it stood him in good stead through the unrest in Egypt during the Arab Spring
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InterviewsInfographic: BP accounts for 97% of US refinery safety violations
Safety inspectors cite two BP refineries 760 times for safety violations
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InterviewsKeep your eyes on the prize
Risk managers have a golden opportunity to step up into a strategic board advisory role – if internal auditors and other finance professionals don’t get there first. But there are ways to fight back, as Alex Hindson, deputy chairman of the IRM, tells Nathan Skinner
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InterviewsName and shame
Public sector organisations may be outsourcing various services in a bid to save money, but when things go wrong, the damage to reputation still falls squarely at their door. This is one place where the phrase ‘no such thing as bad publicity’ definitely does not apply
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InterviewsIs the Corporate Manslaughter Act working?
Three years after it was enacted and we are yet to see a trial, let alone conviction. Sally Roff and Mary Lawrence explain what has changed.
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InterviewsDiary of a risk management student
I’ve completed the second module of the IRM Certificate in Risk Management
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InterviewsSafe means safe
A Court of Appeal ruling boosts the requirement on employers to provide a safe workplace
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InterviewsHSE must disclose names for work-deaths
A safety charity has forced the HSE to hand over information so that it can track how it deals with work-related deaths
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InterviewsWHO reveals rising cost of diseases in the workplace
Report calls for the worldwide introduction of workplace health programmes to tackle chronic disease
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InterviewsNew chair for UK’s pandemic influenza advisory group
Sir Gordon Duff has been appointed external chair of the Scientific Advisory Group on Pandemic Influenza
