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RISKY BUSINESS Angelique Smith, co-owner and event director at Event Synthesis, talks to Meetings magazine about how the Covid-19 pandemic is spotlighting the need for more careful and thorough risk assessment.
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he reality of doing business is that there is and always will be risk – from financial, legal and occupational to natural disasters, data or security breaches, or system failures. Every business owner has the capacity to identify possible risks and determine the appropriate ways of averting and mitigating these. This is not only in their teams’ best interests, but it is a legal
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requirement to train staff on all potential hazards and to find ways of eliminating, controlling or avoiding them in order to keep everyone, including clients, safe. The issue is that this wasn’t policed before the Covid-19 pandemic and, therefore, it was not a priority for businesses. “A number of business owners I have done training for over the past six months have
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