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Risk management for meetings and events / Julia Rutherford Silvers

By: Series: Events management seriesPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Burlington, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008.Description: xxvi, 354 pages : illustration ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780750680578
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GT3405 .S587 2008
Contents:
Preface; PART ONE -- UNDERSTANDING RISK MANAGEMENT; Chapter 1: The Role of Risk Management for Meetings and Events; Chapter 2: The Risk Management Process, Tools, and Techniques; PART TWO -- THE SCOPE OF RISK MANAGEMENT; Chapter 3: Legal and Ethical Compliance; Chapter 4: Health and Safety; Chapter 5: Loss Prevention and Security; Chapter 6: Emergency Preparedness; PART THREE -- ORGANIZATIONAL SAFEGUARDS; Chapter 7: Administrative Safeguards; Chapter 8: Communications; Chapter 9: Marketing Issues; PART FOUR -- OPERATIONAL SAFEGUARDS; Chapter 10: Program Design; Chapter 11: Site Management; Chapter 12: Attendee Management; Appendices; References; Index. PART I: Understanding risk management. The role of risk management for meetings and events -- The risk management process, tools, and techniques -- -- PART II: The scope of risk management. Legal and ethical compliance -- Health and safety -- Loss prevention and security -- Emergency preparedness -- -- PART III: Organizational safeguards. Administrative safeguards -- Communications -- Marketing issues -- -- PART IV: Operational safeguards. Program design -- Site management -- Attendee management.
Summary: Events of all types are produced every day for all manner of purposes, attracting all sorts of people. Creating and managing the environment in which these people will gather carries with it awesome responsibilities - legal, ethical, and financial. To provide a safe and secure setting and to operate in a manner that ensures the hosting organizations or individuals achieve their objectives in a proper and profitable way, event risk management must be fully integrated into all event plans and throughout the event management process. Risk Management for Meetings and Events examines the practices, procedures, and safeguards associated with the identification, analysis, response planning, and control of the risks surrounding events of all types. Written by an experienced author it: * Provides a solid, easy-to-read conceptual foundation based on proven risk management techniques * Includes ready-to-use templates designed specifically as learning exercises for students and professionals * Comprehensively discusses effective strategies for managing the risks associated with design, planning and production of public and private events Risk Management for Meetings and Events is a comprehensive and practical guide which supports academic and professional development programs that prepare individuals for entering or advancement in the meeting and event management industry. * Provides a solid, easy-to-read conceptual foundation based on proven risk management techniques * Includes ready-to-use templates designed specifically as learning exercises for students and professionals * Comprehensively discusses effective strategies for managing the risks associated with the design, planning, and production of public and private events.
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Includes bibliography references and index.

Preface; PART ONE --
UNDERSTANDING RISK MANAGEMENT; Chapter 1: The Role of Risk Management for Meetings and Events; Chapter 2: The Risk Management Process, Tools, and Techniques; PART TWO --
THE SCOPE OF RISK MANAGEMENT; Chapter 3: Legal and Ethical Compliance; Chapter 4: Health and Safety; Chapter 5: Loss Prevention and Security; Chapter 6: Emergency Preparedness; PART THREE --
ORGANIZATIONAL SAFEGUARDS; Chapter 7: Administrative Safeguards; Chapter 8: Communications; Chapter 9: Marketing Issues; PART FOUR --
OPERATIONAL SAFEGUARDS; Chapter 10: Program Design; Chapter 11: Site Management; Chapter 12: Attendee Management; Appendices; References; Index. PART I: Understanding risk management. The role of risk management for meetings and events --
The risk management process, tools, and techniques --
--
PART II: The scope of risk management. Legal and ethical compliance --
Health and safety --
Loss prevention and security --
Emergency preparedness --
--
PART III: Organizational safeguards. Administrative safeguards --
Communications --
Marketing issues --
--
PART IV: Operational safeguards. Program design --
Site management --
Attendee management.

Events of all types are produced every day for all manner of purposes, attracting all sorts of people. Creating and managing the environment in which these people will gather carries with it awesome responsibilities - legal, ethical, and financial. To provide a safe and secure setting and to operate in a manner that ensures the hosting organizations or individuals achieve their objectives in a proper and profitable way, event risk management must be fully integrated into all event plans and throughout the event management process. Risk Management for Meetings and Events examines the practices, procedures, and safeguards associated with the identification, analysis, response planning, and control of the risks surrounding events of all types. Written by an experienced author it: * Provides a solid, easy-to-read conceptual foundation based on proven risk management techniques * Includes ready-to-use templates designed specifically as learning exercises for students and professionals * Comprehensively discusses effective strategies for managing the risks associated with design, planning and production of public and private events Risk Management for Meetings and Events is a comprehensive and practical guide which supports academic and professional development programs that prepare individuals for entering or advancement in the meeting and event management industry. * Provides a solid, easy-to-read conceptual foundation based on proven risk management techniques * Includes ready-to-use templates designed specifically as learning exercises for students and professionals * Comprehensively discusses effective strategies for managing the risks associated with the design, planning, and production of public and private events.

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