All General articles – Page 4

  • Analysis

    Law cannot stop Spam

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam and Sybari Software recently announced the results of a European study into the law regulating unsolicited commercial communications (o

  • Analysis

    Hazards from EU Enlargement

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    A new study suggests that EU harmonisation could erode the cost advantages that newly-joined states currently enjoy, and could leave British importers liable if products sourced from these countries d

  • Analysis

    CRE seeks employers' views

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The Commission For Racial Equality is asking British employers to take part in a consultation on its revised code of practice in employment

  • Features

    Comment - Is it a risk or an opportunity?

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Is it a risk or an opportunity? That is what many organisations will be asking themselves following the UK government's launch of draft regulations on the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) in May

  • Analysis

    Gratuitous care claims could hit public sector

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    As the compensation culture continues to boom, local councils and other public sector organisations are being warned that gratuitous care claims could be the next emerging trend to increase the drain

  • Features

    The Painful Cost of Capping

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Good risk management is now more vital than ever for the public sector, writes Gemma Rogers

  • Features

    Biodiversity risk for extractive companies

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Robert Barrington discusses a recent report on biodiversity and the risks for the extractive industries

  • Analysis

    Growing fear of terrorist attacks

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    More than one in three companies (36%) expect terrorists to deliberately target their organisation or staff, according to research released by RAND Europe and Janusian Security Risk Management, the se

  • Features

    Competing For Attention - RIMS 2004

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack covers some of the highlights of the recent US risk management conference

  • Analysis

    D&O Premiums still increasing

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    A report from Tillinghast, part of Towers Perrin, after research among 2,139 companies in the US and Canada, shows that Directors and Officers (D&O) liability insurance premiums increased by approxima

  • Analysis

    Government consults on chemicals

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The UK government has published a consultation document seeking views on revising the UK chemicals strategy

  • Analysis

    Biodiversity Risks Ignored

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    eISIS Asset Management has published a report on how the world's major extractive companies approach the issue of biodiversity

  • Analysis

    MANAGING MERGERS

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a case study-based report on the management of international mergers and acquisitions

  • Features

    NEW YEAR NEW FOCUS?

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Gemma Rogers describes the public sector's changing approach to risk

  • Analysis

    IT EXPOSURE

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the heightened threat from global terrorism, research from Compass Management Consulting suggests that companies' security and disaster recovery plans are not up to scratch and that companies

  • Analysis

    PLAN FOR EMERGENCIES

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    eDraft legislation, tighter regulation and the persistent threat of terrorism are redefining the extent to which UK organisations are expected to plan for an emergency, according to a new report from

  • AIRMIC Portfolio

    PRIVATE SECTOR DISASTER PREPARATION

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    According to the lead item in the latest issue of Risk Directions, which focuses on disaster readiness and business continuity, the Government wants the private sector to set about preparing itself fo

  • Analysis

    CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY GUIDANCE

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    A new publication, The Corporate Responsibility Code Book by Deborah Leipziger, is a guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate responsibility and searching for a route toward

  • Features

    MORE THAN COMPLIANCE

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the UK government's bid to revitalise health and safety, Andy Shaw believes that many companies are still not doing enough Practitioners need a new approach.

  • Analysis

    KYOTO CHALLENGED

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    A group of experts from International Policy Network (IPN), a London-based NGO, called upon ministers meeting in Milan last December for the 9th Conference of Parties to the UN's Framework Convention