In my third instalment of this increasingly less funny series, we look at how popular auditor and blogger Norman Marks might make a PBJ sandwich. How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Norman Marks Add jam and peanut butter to bread. Perform…
Tips on writing a zombie evacuation memo
One of the biggest risks about evacuating your office in the event of an emergency is getting people to actually evacuate safely. You can send all the emails you want about procedures but like the boy who cried were(wolf)…
Another Riskczar honour
Last week I received an email from PMP Certification Training letting me know that Riskczar.com was named to their list of 50 Best Risk Management Blogs. When I started bringing you Riskczar’s Blog, I was happy to see that folks…
Hockey risk management: Watching too much on tv can kill you
Even before the slew of recent severe concussions in the NHL (it’s all the rage since Sidney Crosby got his) or fractures to cervical vertebra, we knew that hockey was hazardous to the health of those who played the game.…
In Flanders fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We…
I’m not dead yet
This story in today’s Globe and Mail kills me. I guess it’s true what they say about death and taxes. If you were looking at the financial data from Toronto-based funeral company, Arbor, you might think that people were dropping…
An Elin rant
Poor, poor Elin. I am not condoning Tiger’s actions or mocking her pain but I think she’s done much better than most divorced mothers, immigrants and ex-nannies. “I’ve been through hell,” she said. “It’s hard to think you have this life,…
Self immolation risk and mitigation
Siri Agrell of the Globe and Mail reports about a man who will self-immolate at the G20 – when the PM of India is here – to protest the 1984 Sikh genocide. The Integrated Security Unit noted that their officers are trained to…
Army of Darkness 2 – Revenge on the G20
The Toronto Star reports:”Toronto police arrested a 53-year-old man on the Esplanade in downtown Toronto Thursday afternoon and confiscated a chainsaw, sledgehammer, four baseball bats, a crossbow and fuel canisters from his car.” What! Doesn’t this sound like the stuff…