Key issues from the 2008 global risk engineering workshop
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The risk engineering workshop is a forum for Zurich customers and staff to examine emerging risk topics and developments. With a packed program of keynote and short presentations presented by external experts, Zurich staff and by our customers, topics focused on the operational and strategic aspects of risk that impact business and also looked at some of the elements currently shaping the global risk landscape, including corporate globalization, business continuity management (BCM) and enterprise risk management (ERM). Participants also explored case studies and delved into the tools and techniques which could help them address their challenges around risk and business interruption.
Are you ready to REACH? – global impacts of the new regulation
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Eivind Helland, Zurich Senior Risk Engineer, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals & Food Group
REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances) has been designed to establish more uniform, transparent and safer management of chemicals in the European Union. REACH requirements will cost companies a total of around €2.3 billion during the 11-years it will take to register approximately 30,000 existing chemical substances. In this presentation, Helland takes a broad look at the global implications of REACH and how it will affect risk management.
Zurich Hazard Analysis – facilitating enterprise-wide risk prioritization
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Brad Joseph, Ford Motor Company, USA
In the past, it was common for Ford Motor Company’s health and safety professionals to start problem-solving before hazards and root causes were identified. This needed correction, so Ford engaged Zurich Risk Engineering to help train Ford’s Regional Risk Managers in a variety of topics and skills. This presentation looks at the challenges and successes of that cooperation.
To service or not to service?- managing global work-related accidents
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Jim York, Zurich Risk Engineering, North America
While traditional Risk Engineering efforts have primarily focused on property and general liability, workplace injuries and illnesses have a measurable and significant impact on global productivity and efficiency: EU member countries, for example, experience about 4 million work-related accidents and about 150 million work-related lost days per year. Here York presents the results of his study showing that where Risk Engineering focuses on the prevention of workplace injuries and illnesses, there are significant reductions in the economic impact on individuals, organizations, and economies.
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Environmental Liability & Insurance: Hidden Risks and Unforeseen Exposures – Taking Stock of a Changing Physical and Political Environment
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Michele Schroeder, AVP, Zurich Environmental
Hidden pollution risks make business owners and commercial insurance brokers vulnerable to environmental liability claims. Commercial General Liability (CGL) policies carry exclusions for an increasing number of environmental risks. Exclusions in CGL policies leave corporations with large litigation defense and transactional expenses liabilities that could prove threatening to the long-term viability of their enterprises, and the changing U.S. political environment has signaled more vigorous enforcement of environmental standards. Companies, regardless of their industry, need to assess their environmental risks and carefully assess their choice of insurance providers.
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