2020 will for many, go down as one of the most volatile years in modern history. From environmental disasters to a global pandemic, our behaviours and habits had to quickly change and adapt to a new situation. Sectors saw themselves struggling to pull through the...
Whilst the UK is in the last leg on their trade talks with the EU over a post-Brexit trade deal, we look back at our post from 2016 on eight ways in which risk management discipline can help you make a complex decision. This blog post...
This article was first published on 20th March 2018. “Was a matter of time. Can we agree this is a stupid idea? #Uber @Potus” ….cried out the Tweet from Bill (and doubtless the thousands like him, soon to follow). It didn’t take long for the indignation to...
A record-breaking blaze As the thick smoke filled the air, the people of Australia knew that the 2019 bushfire season was going to be very different from what they had experienced before. Years of community warnings and responses had prepared them for this to be a...
The Sting On the 3rd August 2020, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian national, met with an old acquaintance at a bar in Reno. This wasn’t the first time the pair had seen each other. They had met before in 2016 but only had gotten back...
When the summer storms of 2019 swept across the Midlands and the North of England, the neighbours of the little town of Whaley Bridge never expected that in a couple of hours they would become characters to a Hollywood blockbuster-worthy near miss incident . After days...
Passengers and cabin-crew were shocked alike; no-one expected to see sparks ripping out the back of both the engines of flight 8303. The one-and-a-half-hour internal flight from Lahore had been normal and weather conditions were fine the whole way. Scorch marks indented the runway of...
September 1983. Clouds of dust envelop large trucks arriving at a New Mexico landfill site in the dead of night. Thousands of video game cartridges are crushed in concrete and buried in the Alamogordo desert. An urban myth or truth stranger than fiction? Rumour and...
Some risks are so obvious it is unimagineable that people could forget them. This story about the explosion at the Enschede fireworks factory has important lessons for us today....
