Mental wellbeing priority during lockdown

During the coronavirus lockdown, mental health risk has been growing among employees, prompting the NHS to issue fresh advice. But are businesses and managers able to provide support to their staff given the stringent social distancing policies now Read more

Preparing for Covid-19 pandemic

The current Covid-19 pandemic is having devastating affects world-wide to health and the economy with numbers of confirmed cases escalating on a daily basis and governments intervening with closures of non-essential services and restrictions on travel and movement. This Read more

Averting a perpetual hangover in South Africa

Risk managers in South Africa are calling for a unified response to the country’s problems to cure what they call the perpetual hangover that has threatened the region.

In its report South Africa Risks 2020, the Institute of Read more

Disrupting the human resources process

Disrupting the human resources (HR) process has moved up the corporate agenda recently as businesses have struggled to attract and retain the right talent. Achieving this aim is unlikely to be possible unless organisations drop the tried and trusted Read more

Coronavirus risks spread

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new coronavirus that broke out in China and which has killed an estimated 1,000 people in mainland China. Additional cases have been confirmed elsewhere in the Read more

Businesses misaligned over risk

Boards, executive management and internal auditor departments are misaligned over a series of critical risks, according to a recent report – OnRisk 2020: A Guide to Understanding, Aligning, and Optimizing Risk – by the global industry body the Institute Read more

Businesses fail to quantify risk

While businesses manage risk in a wide variety of ways, too many are not quantifying the threats they face, according to Aon’s Global risk management survey 2019.

In a wide-ranging report of global businesses, it found that only 24 Read more

Embedding risk management – the formal and informal

Embedding risk management is often seen as the holy grail of an effective organisation. Research by  ACCA now shows that although organisations have similar risk management objectives, the paths they take to embedding risk management varies. Those paths Read more