All StrategicRISK Global articles in September 2007 – Page 4
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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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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
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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Online onlyWWF calls for clear targets and early action on climate change
Agreement to build on the Kyoto Protocol
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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 onlyUS auto workers launch first national strike action in 30 years
The UAW has launched a national strike against General Motors to address issues of job security
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Virginia Tech awarded more than $960,000 risk grant
Grant will support ongoing recovery and risk assessment work
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Online onlyUK’s separated plutonium stockpile poses severe risks warns Royal Society
Report says best option is to convert the plutonium into a fuel for nuclear reactors
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Online onlyRoyal Society launches consultation on NanoCode for business
The aim of the NanoCode is to establish an international consensus on what constitutes good practice
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Online onlyEU says justify business insurance practices or reform them
The European Commission has adopted the final report of the competition inquiry on the business insurance sector
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Online onlyAIRMIC responds to EU business insurance enquiry
AIRMIC supports broker remuneration transparency but says subscription market doesn't reduce competition
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Online onlyEuropeans join forces to develop a new pandemic flu vaccine
The four-year project has been awarded a grant of EUR3.5m from the European Union
