An article by Jared Wade in Risk Management Magazine references the death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and includes an email from VANOC head John Furlong relating to the safety concerns about the luge track raised before the Vancouver Games. Furlong…
RIMS – ERM at the Vancouver Olympics
I was just reading one of my blog posts about ERM at Hydro One where I wrote that there were very few great case studies about ERM. Until today. I think this case study about ERM during the organizing of…
You cannot mitigate your risks in hindsight
On the one year anniversary of the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili at the greatest Winter Olympic Games of all time, emails have been released disclosing concerns about the luge track that claimed the life of the 21-year old…
Timing and severity of risk treatments
Are risk management treatments that we implement influenced by the timing and the severity of the event? How about emotion? In hockey, a player is penalized 2 minutes for a high stick to the face of another player; but the…