VIA Rail Canada Wins 2016 IRM Global Risk Award
Published on Monday, April 18, 2016
London – VIA Rail Canada Inc. won the prestigious Delivering Value Through Risk Management award when the Institute of Risk Management unveiled its 2016 IRM Global Risk Award winners during a ceremony in London, United Kingdom, on April 15, 2016.
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 the award and VIA Rail Canada, you can read their 2016 annual report (p. 29) and visit their website:
https://media.viarail.ca/sites/default/files/publications/2016_Annual%20Report_EN.pdf
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.
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