US risk management society, RIMS has joined the Business Continuity Coalition to help build a more stable insurance market that will support organisations navigate future pandemics.

Amid forecasts of an above-average Atlantic hurricane season, global health and security services consultancy, International SOS is urging businesses to act now to protect employees who are still dealing with pandemic-related challenges.

We’re all looking for a good night’s sleep, and here’s a book that promises to provide that by making sure you’re always prepared for “the worst day of your business life” – always ready to protect your business and reputation, whatever the world may throw at it.

There are some truths we ought to take as self-evident in modern risk management. Firstly, we know that good risk management makes good business sense; secondly, we know that we live in a world of high velocity change and complexity; and thirdly, we know that the world has changed for ever.

Regulatory changes, food fraud and the ongoing effects of COVID-19 are all potential causes of supply chain disruption in the year ahead, according to a new BSI report. The Supply Chain Risk Insights 2021 Report warns of ongoing challenges from the pandemic creating new threats for organisations in the coming months, but suggests a host of other potential factors also need to be factored in to ongoing planning.

The deadline for entering the Business Continuity Awards is just under two weeks away. The most anticipated event in the business continuity calendar, the Business Continuity Awards celebrate achievement across your vibrant profession, and provide unrivalled networking, alongside a night of entertainment and celebration.

Following a spate of anti-lockdown protests, Black Lives Matter demonstrations and attacks on polices forces, damages and disturbances from riots, protests and other forms of civil unrest are now among the main political risk exposures for companies in the UK and worldwide.

Castellan Solutions has launched its new SaaS tool. The provider’s fully integrated software suite uses automation and intelligence to solve operational resilience, business continuity, crisis management and emergency notification challenges within one platform.

Brokerslink has added compliance, risk and resilience specialist B. Riley Advisory Services to its risk management capabilities.

The pandemic has accelerated the introduction of a more structured business continuity programmes, with a greater expectation of investment in the year ahead, according to the Business Continuity Institute’s 2021 Horizon Scan Report.

COVID-19, changes in legislation and regulation, and business and supply chain interruption dominate the thoughts of British businesses, with climate change shunted down the list of priorities as firms concentrate on what’s right in front of them.

Unless distribution plans for vaccines are perfectly executed, challenges will arise in protecting the single most valuable cargo of all in the coming months. Thefts of cargo in transit make up the highest proportion of total cargo thefts across the whole of 2020, according to a report from TT Club and BSI, with other high-value targets including PPE, face masks and anti-bacterial gel.

More than half of enterprise risk management programmes shifted in focus to health and safety and business continuity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to RIMS's 2020 Enterprise Risk Management Benchmark Survey. The society says 22% of its 613 respondents saw an increase in resource allocation for ERM as a result of COVID-19 challenges.

CMAC Group is partnering with F24 to provide a streamlined business continuity offering, combining CMAC’s emergency transport services with F24’s crisis management and emergency notification solution.

Businesses in the UK are being warned to brace for further possible extreme weather and flooding across many parts of Northern England as Storm Christoph continues its rampage across parts of the country.