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How Risk Managers Keep Their Own Attendees Safe

EventMB

Skift Take: Other events could take a page from the volumes of safety advice that Riskworld, the worlds largest gathering of global risk professionals, creates for its attendees. Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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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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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

Alan Kleinfeld, senior director of meetings and safety at Arrive Management Group, shared a few tips about what meeting profs could do, which can apply to this specific scenario and event safety in general.

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Meetings Industry Association unveils essential Martyn’s Law guidance for business events sector 

Prestige Events Magazine

Working in partnership with leading security and risk management experts GSA Global, the trade association has compiled a step-by-step roadmap to help the sector stay ahead of the potential requirements, so it is ready when the law is enacted.

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Master Event Planning with a Workback Schedule Template

Attendease

Risk management Spot potential issues weeks or months before they impact your event. Your schedule shows exactly who needs to complete each task and when, making it easy to track progress and identify bottlenecks. Plus, when a team member is out of office, others can quickly see what needs attention.

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The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton

Smart Meetings

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

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Risk Management: Events are Risky Business 

SmartMeetings

Weighted risk tracking helps manage real contingency requirements We all plan events months in advance, years in advance, or maybe even, days in advance. Because of that not only do our risk management plans need to be well-thought out but so do our finances to cover those risks. Turns out there is.