All Strategic Risk Global articles in September 2007 – Page 3
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Online onlyUK famers face Britain's first case of Blue Tongue
The virus is thought to be the same strain as found in other parts of northern Europe
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Online onlyWWF calls for clear targets and early action on climate change
Agreement to build on the Kyoto Protocol
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Features
Triumph or tragedy?
Has the Compensation Act started to make a dent in the compensation culture? The jury remains out, according to Paula Jefferson
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Features
Risk, responsibility and regulation
Cardiff may provide the backdrop for the BBC series, Dr Who and Torchwood, but now it has another claim to fame as the venue of the 2007 ALARM annual conference on 2 and 3 July. Lynn Drennan reports
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Features
Powering the plan`
The recent flooding in the UK left many businesses as well as households without any electric power. David Sanderson stresses the need for back-up power solutions
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Multiplication of standards
AIRMIC has told the British Standards Institution (BSI) that it has some reservations about the structure of the draft new British risk management standard 31100. BSI has been conducting consultation on the draft, which it wants to publish as a standard in February or March 2008.The International Standards Organization (ISO) ...
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Editor's Letter
Who tried to mug you today?
It is an astonishing fact that most of us are victims of attempted theft every week. It is even more shocking that few of us bother to report it. Individuals and small businesses (probably large ones too) are pestered with phishing emails inviting them to disclose banking/credit card details or ...
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Features
How prepared are you?
Would your business survive the effects of a pandemic? Scott Nicholl and Christian Leder provide a case study on preparing and testing a pandemic business continuity plan
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Features
Regulation, risk and global strategy
The need for EU-based insurers to develop and implement an enterprise risk management strategy in response to Solvency II was one of the topics at the International Insurance Society (IIS) 43rd annual seminar in Berlin in July. Jean-Paul Louisot reports
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FeaturesGetting the message
Communication can be used as a tool to provide information, explain and warn, and to influence decision-making. How do StrategicRISK Benchmarking Club correspondents view this aspect of their role? Sue Copeman describes the results of our latest survey
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Features
Getting the framework right
Alistair Smith, CRO of one of the UK's largest companies, gives his views on how to develop an effective risk management framework
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European Round-up
Finns and Poles join European federation
With the election of two new members, Finland and Poland, the risk management associations of 15 countries are now represented in the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA). The Risk Management Association of Finland(FinnRiMa) was founded in 1987 based on a working group of the Central Chamber of Commerce ...
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Features
Learning to embed risk management
Embedding risk management into the culture of an organisation is realised by linking your risk management to learning and development efforts, advises Brett Dorney
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European Round-up
Risk management diary dates
2007SEPTEMBER 11-13INSTITUTE OF RISK MANAGEMENT RISK FORUMHatfield University, Hertswww.theirm.orgSEPTEMBER 28AIRMIC RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS EXHIBITIONNovotel, 10 Pepys Street, London EC3N 3NRwww.airmic.comSEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3 FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONS (FERMA) FORUMGenevawww.ferma-asso.orgOCTOBER 4-5 ENERGYFORUM ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENTAmsterdamwww.energyforum.comDECEMBER 5 AIRMIC ANNUAL DINNERRoyal Lancaster Hotel,London
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Features
Kill or Cure?
As from 6 April 2007, Part 36 of the UK Civil Procedure Rules 1998 has been extensively revised. Joanne Pruden looks at the implications for negotiating and settling claims
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European Round-up
Debate continues on proposed standard
The position paper on proposals by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to create an ISO risk management standard 2009 that was issued by FERMA in July to assist member associations in national working groups essentially said that FERMA believes that a formal international risk management standard, especially with an ...
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Features
Comparison shopping
Lee Coppack looks at how the UK and US giants, Tesco and Wal-Mart are reporting risk, and how their risk management translates in the real world
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Features
Colour-coded risk management
Two years ago an article about a new risk management tool called KRRIS (the Key Risk Ranking Indicator System) created considerable interest among readers. The system has now been refined and extended to new industries, says Doug Scott.
