22nd April 2003.
Zurich Risk Services will be showcasing Risk Review at this year’s Health and Safety Expo. Risk Review is a management review tool, which is designed to evaluate existing risk management practices and identify areas where risk management is needed. Zurich Risk Services believes that Risk Review will help people responsible for Health and Safety and risk management to highlight any shortfalls in safe workplace management.
Health and safety officers and risk managers face a daily challenge in trying to identify and understand the risks that pose the greatest threat to their businesses. Not knowing what they are means that their businesses are exposed and maybe unprepared to deal with the consequences.
Risk Review’s flexibility means that customers are able to create a tool that identifies the risks relevant to their business by selecting the right modules for them. The review is carried out on-site by a Zurich risk analyst, who interviews people closest to the issues and then carries out a site survey.
Following the review, Zurich sends out a report that analyses current risk management practices, identifies key risk areas and lastly advises on how these risks can be better managed in the future.
Ian Darrah, MD Chapman & Sons, a medium-sized textiles company said: "Risk Review highlighted areas we were not necessarily aware of. Safety checks are normally carried out on the works, but the Risk Review illustrated that the business was falling down on some safety and risk management aspects."
Ian McNeil, National Risk Manager at Zurich Risk Services concluded, "The Risk Review is really a starting point for businesses to manage risk and make sure that they are achieving statutory compliance to legislation such as the Health and Safety at Work Act. It was developed as a result of our customers' increasing awareness of risk and their need to do 'something' about it."
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For further information, contact:
Natasha Stonebridge,
Zurich Risk Services,
Tel: 0121 456 1311
Susannah Jeffery,
Zurich Financial Services,
Tel: 01489 561559
Notes to Editors:
The review is made up of a number of modules, including:
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Health and safety (PL risk and employee risk)
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Motor fleet
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Property security
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Fire workplace regulations
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Business continuity
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Environmental
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Business Continuity
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Property (fire)
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Property (perils)
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Property (security)
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Motor fleet
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Fire Precautions
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Food hygiene
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Goods in transit
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Fidelity
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Product Liability
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Health and Safety
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Environment Risk
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Fire precautions workplace regulations
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Public liability
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E-business risks
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Employment Law
Zurich Risk Services, part of the Zurich Group, is a leading provider of risk management products and services. Focusing on eight risk areas - health & safety, property protection, motor fleet risk, business continuity, occupational health, strategic risk, engineering and environmental - the products and services enable customers to operate a safer, more effective and productive workplace, and ultimately reduce the total cost of risk.
With over 80 years in the safety inspection industry and 25 years in risk management, Zurich Risk Services combines expertise with experience.
Zurich Risk Services' main office is in Birmingham and there are five customer risk centres located nationally: Birmingham, Glasgow, London, Sutton, and Leeds. It employs over 870 people, including 615 field workers; comprising safety inspection and risk management specialists.
Zurich Risk Services main office is in Birmingham and there are five customer risk centres located nationally; Birmingham, Glasgow, London, Sutton, and Leeds. It employs over 870 people, of which there are 615 field workers; comprising of safety inspection and risk management specialists.
Zurich Financial Services is an insurance-based financial services provider with an international network that focuses its activities on its key markets of North America, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. Founded in 1872, Zurich is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. It has offices in approximately 60 countries and employs about 68,000 people.
