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Airmic 2025: Employers urged to stay ahead of rising travel risks
As global instability accelerates, risk managers are being urged to rethink travel risk strategies, improve governance, and collaborate more closely with insurers to protect staff overseas.
Airmic 2025: The truth about lithium-ion battery risks and how to manage them
Electric vehicles may be the spark, but lithium-ion battery risks run deeper. At Airmic 2025, Marsh’s Alistair Schuberth gave a briefing on what risk managers need to know
Case study: Transitioning to include HR responsibilities as a risk manager
How one risk manager has brought HR under his control to help address talent and people-related risks
Case study: how a nuclear power plant uses digital twin technology to improve operational safety
Introducing digital twin technology to a nuclear power plant is no simple task. But GleeYM’s Yasir Masood, a risk consultant on one such project, explains how it ultimately provided twice the foresight to predict problems, reduce disruption and, crucially, optimise safety.
Case study: How Lendlease put people front and centre during the Fukushima nuclear accident and earthquake
The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident and preceding earthquake and tsunami devastated the region in a matter of hours. Managing Lendlease’s risk response from the region, Kevin Bates describes putting a pause on other business concerns to focus on what mattered most – people.
Risk tool spotlight: using benefits to better manage people risk
An unhappy workforce is a dangerous workforce, as stressed employees are more prone to mistakes, ethical lapses or just moving on. But while they can’t fix a poor culture, working with HR to enhance employee benefits can signifi cantly boost wellbeing, and lower your people risk.
The 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.
Five steps to building a world-class ESG risk and compliance program
Chief risk officers have been managing ESG exposures for some time now, but compliance is getting more complicated. Dean Alms, chief product officer at Aravo explains why risk professionals must step up
Special report: People risk
Poor people management can have a profound effect on a business – hitting productivity, innovation and morale. More attention must be given to the roots of people risk if we don’t want the talent to run dry.
Spotlight on: the risks facing the global retail sector
Many have rung the death knell for retail over the years, but the sector isn’t dying – it’s just changing. Retail risk managers have their hands full, managing disruptors like AI integration and the next generations’ consumer habits, alongside supply chain issues and loss prevention. Trevor Treharne reports.
Connect the dots on people-related risks
Global businesses are sitting on a hidden productivity problem, as traditional approaches to people risk fail to see the bigger picture. It’s time for a reset, with business strategy at its core, says Howden’s Ian Bagnall.
Keeping the show on the road: how to better manage business travel risks
Geopolitical instability is making executive travel more risky, but RSA and Healix are taking an innovative approach to supporting their customers. Here are their tips for reducing risks and continuing with business as normal
The boardroom of the future: elevating risk to a strategic priority
As risks grow in complexity—spanning cybersecurity threats, ESG considerations, and geopolitical uncertainties—boards and executive teams are elevating risk management to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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Why risk managers are turning to parametrics to solve operational challenges
As nat cats grow more severe, insurance gaps are widening - but parametric solutions might hold the key to resilience, says Dianna Nelson, a senior structurer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
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