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Is your risk tech able to help you predict and prevent risks? You only have to open your eyes and ears to recent global situations to realise that not everything happens in the blink of an eye. Some crises build slowly, not everything just happens in a moment. Most risk technologies, especially in the physical security space, have a few main modes in the way they utilise risk intelligence: Alerts ... where events 'trigger' a notification with some additional information. Some

Do you share your travel risk acceptance and tolerance? Its an interesting premise, I suspect most travel and security departments are not going to advertise where that line in the sand sits, at least not publicly within the business ... doesn't really come across well telling people what you won't respond to or how far you might let things stretch regards to policy. But, within your business, you still need to understand this as you need to understand what policy needs to be

Perceptions and beliefs at the scene of an event may not reflect the outside view of truth A quick thought for risk intelligence providers ... do we always want a curated truth? I don't mean this in a way that goes to suggest 'I want anything but the truth' ... I am saying that in our complex world, understanding alternate viewpoints can be useful. Naturally, we want to know your trusted position, but alongside the other news reported 'on the ground', so that I can gauge what

Converging aspects of workplace and travel risk management There are changes coming in ISO 45001 that are worth the effort to review alongside the rollout of your ISO 31030 Travel Risk Management (TRM) solutions. If you weren't aware, ISO 45001 covers Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems aiming to reduce risks in the workplace and create a safer working culture (amongst other things). There are some cross overs in approach and scope with the ISO 31000 family of s

Integrated travel risk solutions has been hard ... until now? Is the future of travel risk integrated data to be found through MCP? As the world of AI matures, the framework in how AI solutions 'find' and 'enact' with tools and data sources may well standardise around MCP (or whatever that evolves into). MCP stands for 'Model Context Protocol' and it provides a mechanism for solutions to discover, comprehend and use 'tools'. Part of the MCP framework is how an AI knows what t

How do you deal with the unexpected? Acronyms in risk can be useful … probably. A couple of months ago, I wrote an article (...

How do you deal with the unexpected? Acronyms in risk can be useful … probably. A couple of months ago, I wrote an article   of how...

Incidents affect difference people, and different scales in different ways All incidents impact all the same ... right? Whatever People...

Pretty anyone who has either built or deployed a technology platform to provide some level of safety, security and duty of care on behalf...

Using technology to identify risk dependencies Many situations arise from a combination of events or evolve with ongoing or related...

Turning Hope to Action with Travel Risk Technology Deploying, implementing and testing travel policy using suitable technology solutions,...

What are the impacts of a disengaged employee? For many years, I have championed the need to value engagement with travellers, travel and...

When considering risk technology solutions for your business, it's crucial to evaluate the inherent risks within the solution itself....

Travel Risk Technology in a world of chaos VUCA is an acronym doing the rounds more and more as we see further geopolitical change,...

It is with exciting that we announce the latest edition of the Digitising Duty of Care whitepaper. The first edition launched in the fall...

In the past few weeks in the risk and critical event management space, we have seen a few large acquisitions worth noting. In each case...