VIA Rail Canada Shortlisted for a 2016 IRM Global Risk Award
Published on Sunday, February 21, 2016
Montreal – VIA Rail Canada Inc. has been shortlisted by the Institute of Risk Management for a 2016 IRM Global Risk Award in the prestigious category Delivering Value Through Risk Management. Winners in each of the 13 award categories will be unveiled during a ceremony to be held in London, United Kingdom, on April 15, 2016. Ghislain Giroux Dufort, President of Baldwin Risk Strategies Inc., said the firm was proud to be associated with VIA Rail Canada, congratulated them on their remarkable achievements, and wished them all the best at the awards ceremony.
As Canada's national rail passenger service, VIA Rail Canada (viarail.ca) and its 2,500 employees are mandated to provide safe, efficient and economical passenger transportation service, in both official languages of Canada. VIA Rail operates intercity, regional and transcontinental trains linking 450 communities across the country, and safely transports nearly four million passengers annually. In 2015, VIA Rail Canada’ Enterprise Risk Management program earned the corporation a prestigious ERM Award of Distinction from the USA’s Risk Management Society (RIMS) in Chicago, a Railway Association of Canada award, and a nomination at the IRM Global Risk Awards in London, UK. The company has earned seven Safety Awards by the Railway Association of Canada over the last nine years, and was the recipient of the 2013 Agent's Choice Award voted by Canadian travel agents and presented by Baxter Travel Media. Since 2007, the Government of Canada has invested almost a billion dollars in VIA Rail. To learn more about VIA Rail Canada, please visit:
http://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail/
Run by the world's leading professional body for risk management, IRM’s Global Risk Awards are the risk world's answer to the Oscars and provide unique international recognition of risk management excellence. With a cross-continent judging panel of more than 30 leading risk management practitioners and academics, the Global Risk Awards represent the pinnacle of achievement for risk professionals, teams and organisations from across the world. Competition is fierce and judges are astonished by the quality and range of entries from Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, from a huge variety of sectors and types of organisations. To learn more about the IRM Global Risk Award, please access the following website:
https://www.theirm.org/events/global-risk-awards-2016/
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is the world’s leading enterprise-wide risk education institute. They are independent, well-respected advocates of the risk profession, owned by practising risk professionals. The IRM passionately believes in the importance of risk management and that investment in education and continuing professional development leads to more effective risk management. They provide qualifications, short courses and events at a range of levels from introductory to expert. The IRM supports risk professionals by providing the skills and tools needed to put theory into practice in order to deal with the demands of a constantly changing, sophisticated and challenging business setting. They operate internationally, with members and students in over 100 countries, drawn from a variety of risk-related disciplines and a wide range of industries. As a not-for-profit organisation, the IRM reinvests any surplus from its activities in the development of international qualifications, membership, short courses and events. For more information on the IRM, please visit:
Baldwin Global is an independent advisory group offering professional services, education and training in risk governance and enterprise risk management. We help our clients’ boards of directors and management teams attain their objectives by embedding sound risk oversight and management practices into their decision-making process to have a significant positive impact on their business.