In July, the government announced a consultation on proposed policies governing the use of drones. Any subsequent draft Drone Bill could cover the powers required by enforcement bodies to police drone usage and penalise owners for improper use, Read more

With the government continuing to search for new, more efficient methods of working, its transformation programmes are often highly ambitious and reliant on both working online and implementing new technology. However, in 2008 The McKinsey Quarterly found that about Read more

Talking with risk practitioners in the space industry about how their industry takes and manages risk is always invigorating and a terrific learning experience. Many of the approaches and solutions learned from them can be applied to other risk Read more

In April this year, the IRM’s Internal Model Industry Forum (IMIF) released a report which outlined how insurance companies can factor operational risk into their insurance purchasing decisions – and many of its points are relevant to risk managers Read more

The IRM has published a guide to help risk managers navigate the newly revised ISO 31000 standard –A risk practitioner’s guide to ISO 31000: 2018.

The overhaul of the standard was released at the end of Read more

Organisations and individuals could do more to improve their gender diversity – and in doing so potentially benefit their business – according to attendees at the IRM’s ‘Women in risk’ roundtable event held on International Women’s Day in March.

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In this interconnected and increasingly digitised world, many (indeed, perhaps most) risks and uncertainties that we contend with cannot be evaluated and managed in isolation.

Common features of interconnected risks and uncertainties include multiple characteristics, causes and consequences. Such Read more