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Preparation is the Key to Risk Management

Smart Meetings

Risk management is a dedicated preparedness rather than simply a mental exercise, according to Lisa Sommer Devlin, the most recent Smart Meetings webinar host. In her talk, “Risk Management 101,” she outlined strategies for dealing with the risks of the industry, as well as how to actively avoid them.

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Four Crucial Questions To Ask When Developing an Effective Contingency Plan for Events

Smart Meetings

Organizations that exercise and evaluate their emergency plans more frequently have higher success in mitigating risks when a real-world application occurs. Event contingency plan teams should design, develop, and conduct response plan exercises on an established schedule and against their organizations’ capabilities.

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COVID-19: Tips and Tools for Remote Work

SmartMeetings

From Smart U Masterclasses to virtual book club, home exercises and the best tools for online meetings, we’ve got you covered. After weeks spent on Zoom calls and virtual happy hours, attendees will expect more tech-driven options and companies will look for risk management that takes into account serious disruptions.

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Top 5 Event Planning Courses for Planners

Event Planning BluePrint

Real-world exercises. Real-world exercises. Risk Management. The term focuses on event management and will take you through all the steps of planning and running events, reinforced with a firm grounding in theory, interactive group work and field trips. Both courses come with. Ongoing support. Practical training.

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Supply chain compliance in the dock at A.C.T mock trial

Event Industry News

In some instances it’s a race to the lowest cost and a ‘lite touch’ in terms of the formalities, a tick box exercise. “Everybody uses contractors but not everybody does the on-the-job checks, the pre-checks or the due diligence,” Mark Wheeldon, Commercial Director at A.C.T., The post Supply chain compliance in the dock at A.C.T

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

She presented a special session at Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference titled, “Event Risk management: 2022 Risk Categories.”. Defining Risk. Any interruption to pre-planning or on-site execution that disrupts an event is a risk,” Warwick said.

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Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era

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Meeting professionals today are risk managers. When planning an in-person event in a partially vaccinated world, the biggest concern is that someone gets sick and files a negligence lawsuit saying the planner failed to exercise “reasonable care” and in the process caused “injury or illness and damage”. Reasonable Care.

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