Newsletters

Our Spring 2011 newsletter reported on our 2010 client event at the HQ of the Magic Circle and featured three recent projects that illustrate the breadth of work we are involved in:

• Developing a traffic flow simulator and virtual reality model of the UK's first managed motorway scheme (the M42) for the Highways Agency and DfT
• Researching how local authorities are working with partners to improve health and social care services for elderly people on behalf of the DWP
• Conducting independent quality reviews of value for money reports produced by the National Audit Office.

In our 2009 newsletter we reported on our move to new offices in Russell Square and reported on three very different projects:

• Performing an interim value for money review of Irish Rail's 15 year Railway Safety Programme
• Helping to develop a risk-based Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Highways Agency
• Producing guidance on how to understand and communicate public risks based on the experiences of the Risk and Regulatory Advisory Council.

This newsletter reported on our 2008 client event and three projects that we had recently completed.  At Risk Solutions we pride ourselves on our diverse mix of clients and the wide range of projects we work on.  The projects featured in this issue were to:

• Define a research programme that is needed to form the basis of future negotiations on greenhouse gas stabilisation.
• Develop an asset management strategy for London Underground's telecoms assets.
• Develop and help implement an operational risk management framework for International Power.

2007 marked Risk Solutions' tenth anniversary and our first year of being an employee-owned business. This newsletter explains how we marked the occasion by refreshing our corporate identity and overhauling our website. The newsletter also describes three current projects:

• Assessing whether safety critical rail staff who fail the industry's hearing standard could continue working if fitted with digital hearing aids
• Investigating the relationship between traffic growth and measures to improve flows on journey time reliability for the Highways Agency
• Scoping two projects to investigate options under the Office for Disability Issues' Independent Living Strategy.

• Working with Targets - Our review of international experience of working with targets, especially in the public sector.
• Risk Based Standards for Roads - Describing how we applied a risk-based approach to the introduction of radically different gantry designs on UK motorways.
• PACTS - Describing our growing involvement on the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. 
• By Royal Command - Chris and Helen's appointment at the Palace. 
• Richard, Jonathan and Mike join the team.