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Integrated Risk Management and Fire Fighter Safety in the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service
The requirement that each Fire and Rescue Service in the United Kingdom UK should develop an Integrated Risk Management Plan IRMP was first proposed by Professor Sir George Bain in his report entitled "The Future of the Fire Service: Reducing Risk - Saving Lives," published in December 2002 and commissioned...
Tags: Public Entity Risk Institute, U.K., risk management
White papers 2005-11-06
Benchmarking for Improved Decision-Making Capabilities in Today's Public Sector
This article discusses both internal and external benchmarking and how these strategies can be employed to help a public entity identify key program cost drivers and evaluate and refine loss prevention and risk management programs and procedures. Benchmarking is a tool public entities use to make more informed decisions regarding...
Tags: Financial Planning, Public Entity Risk Institute, benchmarking, insurance, public sector, risk management, decision-making, performance, strategy, tool
White papers 2004-07-27
Toward an International System Model in Emergency Management
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the international dimension of emergency management, particularly as it relates to information sharing, integration, and interoperability. It discusses a number of challenges and frames the activities of different stakeholders and sectors, emphasizing the need for connectivity, seamless exchanges, and widespread...
Tags: Public Entity Risk Institute, emergency management
White papers 2003-01-01
Emergency Response Management
Business process management can play a significant role in the harmonic and timely activities of collaborative emergency response. By enforcing critical process steps it helps to remove dangerous uncertainties in the response process. It should be considered as a valuable aid and allay when pressure mounts on decision makers, not...
Tags: Operational planning, SECURITY, Public Entity Risk Institute, emergency response, BPM, business process
White papers 2003-01-01
Discrimination & Harassment in the Workplace: Five Essential Strategies for Smarter Risk Management
Discrimination and harassment are costly to an organization – and to each person in it – so the focus must always be the prevention of risk and wrongdoing. However, once a problem arises, an organization must act with no tolerance for such wrongdoing, maintaining proactive observation and communication along with...
Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, SECURITY, Public Entity Risk Institute, risk management, wrongdoing, workplace, harassment, strategy
White papers 2003-01-01
Enhancing Short-term Responses with Larger-scale Perspectives
Our tools and techniques for hazard assessment and disaster management come into question when we consider the paradox of concurrent and prodigious increases in property losses as well as in research related to natural hazards. In view of this developing paradox, the call for an International System Model in Emergency...
Tags: Public Entity Risk Institute, emergency management, paradox, disaster management, technique, tool
White papers 2003-01-01
Crisis Management Telecommunication Network Concept Solutions and Services
The use of the latest information and communications technology has expanded rapidly within crisis response organizations. Naturally, each individual organization uses whatever system it has previously adopted in order to carry out its mandate in the field. Collectively, however, this has resulted in interoperability problems. Current systems used by civilian...
Tags: Public Entity Risk Institute, crisis management, information security
White papers 2003-01-01
Readying Small Businesses for Recovery: Palm Beach County's Approach
Government and insurance industry statistics consistently suggest that more than half of disaster-victimized businesses either never reopen or fail after reopening. A substantial percentage of these failures are small businesses. It has become increasingly evident that disaster-related business failures have a dramatic and long-term impact on communities. Article illustrates the...
Tags: Financial Planning, Public Entity Risk Institute, Palm Inc., small business, insurance, Strategic Planning
White papers 2003-01-01
The Internet: A Global Approach to Information Sharing
The Internet is a viable approach to link the disaster management world together and communicate the disaster preparedness and prevention message to practitioners and the masses. The Internet has come into its own as the communication and commerce means envisioned and anticipated by its earliest proponents. Information is power and...
Tags: Disaster recovery, Public Entity Risk Institute, disaster management, Internet, network, job, information technology
White papers 2003-01-01
Knowledge Management In High-Hazard Industries
From the executive summary: ‘All politics is said to be local, and in important ways knowledge is local as well. In managing knowledge about accident precursors, organizations must attend to the local nature of problems and the knowledge that must be brought to bear to address them, as well as...
Tags: Strategy, Public Entity Risk Institute, knowledge, knowledge management, accident, stock, network
White papers 2003-01-01
A Simple Step Toward an International System Model in Emergency Management
Emergency management is considered a complex and difficult process. In truth, it is a simple process engaged in by all individuals, groups and communities. Coordinated emergency response can also be a simple process, so long as communities capitalize on common ground. Emergency management is a continuous process by which all...
Tags: Public Entity Risk Institute, emergency management, emergency response
White papers 2003-01-01
An All-Hazard Approach to Emergency Incident Response
"Information sharing and inter-agency coordination is clearly needed to facilitate a successful emergency incident response. Yet many public and private organizations lack the comprehensive emergency response plans that define the roles and responsibilities of trained personnel responding to an unexpected incident, and describe how to work “side-by-side” with responders from...
Tags: SECURITY, Public Entity Risk Institute, emergency preparedness, emergency response, emergency management, agency, training
White papers 2003-01-01
Community Response to the Threat of Terrorism
"Terrorism is a multi-faceted problem: It’s a police problem, a military problem, a public safety problem, a political problem, and a public policy problem. As we have learned, international terrorist groups have a support infrastructure within the United States, giving them the capability to attack us virtually anywhere they choose...
Tags: Homeland security, Public Entity Risk Institute, terrorism
White papers 2003-01-01
Hard Market: A Double Entendre that Means Work for You
This article gives some historical perspective to the current hard market, helps understand the cyclical nature of the insurance market, and suggests steps that small companies, public entities and nonprofit organizations may employ to prepare for and weather the hard market. Steps being taken to improve underwriting results and profitability...
Tags: Financial Planning, Public Entity Risk Institute, nonprofit organization, cancellation, insurance, small business
White papers 2002-01-01
Risk Identification and Analysis: A Guide for Small Public Entities
The primary purpose of this resource is to provide small public entities with a user-friendly process to identify and analyze their risks on an enterprise wide basis. The author has included forms and potential loss and impact summaries that may help make the risk identification and analysis process more easily...
Tags: Public Entity Risk Institute, analysis
White papers 2001-07-26

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Bickmore Risk Services & Consulting Collaborating With the Public Entity Risk Institute
Collaboration Includes Metrics-Driven Workshops Nationwide SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Bickmore Risk Services & Consulting BRS, one of the largest and fastest growing independent risk management consulting firms in the US, announced today it is collaborating with the Public Entity Risk Institute PERI, a leading nonprofit research institute focused on...
Articles 2008-06-02
SAS® Software Comes Easy to Texas Public Sector Organizations
Convenience Contract with Texas Department of Information Resources Gives Power of SAS([R]) to Lone Star State CARY, N.C. -- A convenience contract with SAS will simplify the procurement of SAS([R]) software for all government and education organizations in Texas. The agreement between SAS, the leader in business intelligence...
Articles 2008-05-28
Economic stimulus proposal to address liquidity crisis
The economy is at risk and corporations and individual borrowers are in a liquidity crisis because banks are reluctant to lend as a result of their own irresponsible residential and commercial real estate lending practices and excessive credit card exposure and a criminal failure of oversight by the Federal Reserve...
Articles 2008-03-26
NYSE-Traded Chinese Companies Have Poor Earnings Quality and Inadequate Governance, RateFinancials Study Warns
'Government Controlled Entities Masquerading as Independent Public Companies' NEW YORK -- Major publicly-traded Chinese companies whose American Depository Shares ADSs are traded on the New York Stock Exchange NYSE have very poor quality of earnings, inadequate corporate governance standards, and serious accounting related issues, according to a comprehensive...
Articles 2007-09-17
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Selected for Emergency Detection, Response and Public Alert Concept Development
CHANTILLY, Va. -- AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a government IT solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., today announced that the Institute for Defense and Homeland Security IDHS has selected the company to develop and demonstrate its Red Cell solution, a rapid, geographically precise risk alert...
Articles 2007-08-06
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