Become a certified ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager
ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager training and certification in Brussels, Belgium on 20-24 November. Register today!
Major environmental disasters: September 2017
September was the most active month ever recorded for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. See the list of major environmental disasters in September 2017.
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in tea, herbal infusions and food supplements
Tea lovers, see why exposure to pyrrolizidine alkaloids for frequent consumers of tea and herbal infusions is a possible long-term concern for human health.
ISO training and certification opportunities with ContinuityLink
An avalanche of training opportunities! Business Continuity, Information Security, Quality Management, Risk Management, Food Safety… Find the ISO certification you need with ContinuityLink.
Major environmental disasters: August 2017
Hurricane Harvey is likely to be one of the costliest natural disasters in the USA. See the list of major environmental disasters in August 2017.
What you always wanted to know about Food Crime but were afraid to ask
Disappointing though, the truth is that food crime is considerably more subtle, nuanced and endlessly fascinating than the popular narrative suggests.
UN-Habitat – What is Resilience?
UN-Habitat’s goal is to increase the resilience of cities to the impacts of natural and human-made crises. Find out what is UN-Habitat doing for resilience.
Common GDPR myths debunked
Noise around the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is getting louder as the 2018 deadline for enforcement approaches. Common myths debunked!
Cyclone Zeus’ loss estimated at 284 million euros
The revised loss estimate the property insurance market from Cyclone Zeus in France is up and it goes up to 284M euros. Natural disaster can be costly!
Fipronil – EU says worst is over but food safety to be tightened up
A meeting of European Union agriculture ministers in Estonia yesterday to discuss the fipronil contaminated eggs crisis suggested the outbreak has now been mostly contained. Following the meeting, EU Health […]
Mayors on Resilience
Mayors from Cape Town, Santiago de Chile, Rotterdam, Pittsburgh, and Oakland tell us why cities need resilience now more than ever before. Cities in the 100RC network are provided with […]
Barcelona fits a pattern – there is no pattern
What recently happened in Barcelona has taken some interesting twists and turns. A heinous act that we all thought was yet another quasi-random example of ‘vehicular terrorism’ (Nice, Berlin, Stockholm, London, Charlottesville…) […]