Some interesting info on stairs to share wtih you. According to the book At Home by Bill Bryson, the second most common cause of accidental death is stairs. While stair deaths are well back of automobiles, they are far ahead of “drownings,…
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…
Seth Godin’s disaster tolerance
I don’t often copy and paste entire posts of others without a clever preamble but it’s really hot out and I’m tired plus this post by Seth Godin called “Disaster Tolerance” speaks for itself. Not all disasters can be avoided. Not…
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.…
When I say evacuate, I mean evacuate NOW
In today’s post, I write about the December 2010 article “To Leave an Area After Disaster: How Evacuees from the WTC Buildings Left the WTC Area Following the Attacks” by Rae Zimmerman and Martin F. Sherman. It compliments my earlier…
Bloomberg: Canada has strongest banks in the world
Bloomberg recently ranked the World’s Strongest Banks in the June 2011 edition of Bloomberg Markets magazine. (See the link to learn how they crunched their numbers.) I am proud to report that 5 of the 20 banks are Canadian. The…
Which risk tolerance vs that risk appetite
Like many of you, I received a request from The Institute of Risk Management to comment on a consultation paper they prepared called “Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance”. Great title. It’s not my intention to opine on the paper here.…
Football, hockey and enterprise risk management
Riskviews writes a great post called Football is about more than just Shoes. He writes that the “equipment never wins the game” but a “team without proper equipment has only a slim chance of prevailing.” Riskviews also reiterates a point…
Death by Smartphone
Here’s proof supporting my 2010 post about how people do not wear watches anymore because we have clocks on our smartphones. The Huffington Post features a list of 9 Gadgets that Smartphones Made Obsolete. Voice recorders Alarm clocks MP3 players…
Ottawa, an earthquake and reputation risk
During a break today, I was taking a look at the headlines at 680news.com. I most enjoyed the irony in the timing of MoneySense magazine’s announcement that Ottawa-Gatineau was ranked as the best place to live in Canada. Because at the…