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Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel.

Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel. The Answer to specific requests. Riskope were indeed recently asked to provide a comprehensive five day course addressing Risk and Crisis Management, Risk Based Decision Making, Project Evaluation for top managers and key personnel at Investment Banks, Oil & Gas, Energy and Transportation. Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel. Although companies willing to commit the resources…

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Insurance Denial not Only for Mining, but also for Residential and Private Parties?

At Riskope we have been writing and discussing insurance denial issues hitting miners around the world since 2009. Now there is evidence that the problem of Insurance Denial not Only for Mining and is extending to flood insurance (and most certainly to other natural hazard-linked events in the future). From a societal risk management point of view the problem is quite intriguing Seen from a societal risk management point of view the problem is quite intriguing: 1) Governments (at all…

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Cree valor en su empresa minera por medio de una integración estratégica de conocimiento y escenarios de riesgos con Estimaciones óptimas de riesgo (ORE)®

La gestión de riesgos mineros solía ser una cuestión de “conformidad” o de “minimización de pérdidas”, algo en lo que se pensaba después, no una herramienta para crear valor en la mineria. Las mineras interpretaban los resultados de las Evaluaciones de Riesgos con Gráficos de Impacto Probabilístico (pérdidas) confusos (conocidos como PIG), que a menudo eran engañosos y que en realidad no promovían ni incrementaban una comprensión holística del ambiente de negocios y de los tanques de relaves/colas. Cree valor…

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Pyramids, Archaeology & Toxic Wastes. Lessons drawn from history with a risk management perspective.

If you think we have lost our minds, here is the background for this post. At Riskope we see Risk Assessments for “at perpetuity” projects. Those are projects that should last “forever” and/or receive “perpetual care”. These project bear on the storage of wastes containing toxic compounds. Not necessarily radioactive material, but materials that are difficult to neutralize and/or recycle. Here we explore Toxic Wastes. Lessons drawn from history with a risk management perspective. So, a natural question that comes to…

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Japan tunnel disaster flashback

The very recent tragic accident in the Sasago Tunnel in Japan brings memories of our first mission in that country, in the aftermath of the Toyohama Tunnel accident in Furubira Town (Hokkaido, Japan) on February 10, 1996 (Toyohama Tunnel Rockfall). The collapse of Toyohama tunnel crushed cars and a bus, killing 20 people in 1996. The causes of that failure were very different from the present case, but that’s not the point to be discussed here. At that time, local…

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Trains, Commuters, Sandy and Decision-Making… another case for ORE cockpits.

We have been writing our last two posts in Italian, commenting on the “poor Italian risk-culture” (we were not talking about politics, but on cases like Taranto wide-spread contamination or L’Aquila earthquake sentence), but now we have another interesting subject of conversation linked to hurricane Sandy and its consequences to N.J. Trains. We are not going to discuss, as we do not trust “reporting scoops” in general, if the trains were actually flooded or damaged by some other hurricane-linked phenomenon;…

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Frecciarossa Trenitalia, Guariniello, attacchi cardiaci e defibrillatori

Solo pochi giorni fa pubblicammo su questo blog un articolo che dichiarava che “ Nessun manager si può più permettere, come recenti avvenimenti di cronaca industriale e legale italiana e mondiale hanno dimostrato, di lavorare “d’istinto”, su basi approssimative non quantificate e non giustificabili…” Evidentemente, pensavamo a casi come il sisma dell’Aquila ed i suoi risvolti legali, politici e mediatici, l’Ilva di Taranto, con tutto il suo fardello tossicologico, ed a vari altri casi italiani ed internazionali. Sono passati solo…

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Tailings Systems and Dams: ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates) help making better decisions and to avoid misleading the public

Tailings Systems and Dams: ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates) help making better decisions and to avoid misleading the public. At Riskope (www.riskope.com) we are very proud of releasing our presentation at the Mining 2012, Keystone (CO) Conference. Tailings Systems and Dams: ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates) help making better decisions You can see and download the presentation for free here Riskope’s presentation at Mining 2012, Keystone (CO) Conference.

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