Nominations

We have asked our partners to nominate clients in three categories:

1.“Industry Leading Initiative”
Management effort to make a change

2.“Best Application of a risk management method”
‘Step changing’ method or software application

3.“Best Initiative for compliance & working safely”
Project or program

These categories are set-up to recognize the different forms of effort that organizations make to assure that operations are executed in a safe and secure manner for all ‘stakeholders’: personnel, management, clients, shareholders, regulators, legal authorities and the society as a whole. The categories focus on general awareness programs, concrete application of solutions to make a change or other projects that are initiated to make a positive change to the way organizations operate.

In addition to these categories for organizations, we have decided to created a special 'Lifetime Achievement'-category for a select number of people who have played an important role in the acceptance of barrier based methods in various industries and on various continents.

We are in the final stages of completing the nominations, beginning of September the nominations will be handed over to the jury.

The nominations will be presented during the Industry Awards Recognition. Tony Gower-Jones, Board Member of the Tripod Foundation, will host the election in Dauphine during the Participants Party. In his daily work Tony Gower-Jones is the HSE Director at Centrica Energy.

Results

Centric Financial Solutions & Services, State Supervision of the Mines and Cogas are the winners of the CGE Industry Awards 2012.

These awards were handed out during the Industry Awards ceremony at the Barrier Based Risk Management Network Event on 24&25 September, held in Amsterdam.

Centric Financial Solutions & Services, State Supervision of the Mines and Cogas are the winners of the Industry Awards organized by CGE Risk Management Solutions. 25 organizations and persons from various industries around the world were nominated for their leading approach of risk management.

The nominees were judged by an independent jury, consisting of Tony Gower-Jones, board member at the Tripod Foundation and HSE Director at Centrica Energy, and Jop Groeneweg, assistant professor at the University Leiden.

“With the Awards, we provide a platform for our ‘industry leading’ clients, partners and consultants to share innovative risk management approaches from various industries,” Arjan Verboom, Program Director at CGE, says. “By implementing innovative barrier based methods and software, organizations can improve the reliability, efficiency and safety of their operations.”

“To understand the full scope of integrated risk management – and to be able to manage the reliability of the controls, not only lowers the risk profile, but also supports the increase of the efficiency and competitive advantage for our clients,” Arjan Verboom continues. “Our clients who perform well in risk management, are the same clients that perform well on growth and profitability.”

Winners

Winner in the category ‘Industry Leading Initiative’: Cogas - Shaking the dust of risk management

“Cogas, winner in the category ‘Industry Leading Initiative’, uses an innovative structured approach of risk management,” Tony Gower-Jones says. “Using this approach, they have - as Cogas says - ‘shaken the dust of risk management’. A good example of the results which the development of visual risk management models can accomplish.”

The runner-up in this category was the UK Civil Aviation Authority with 'Significant Seven Safety issues'.

Winner in the category ‘Best Application of a Risk Management Method’: Centric FSS - Controlling financial risks

“Centric has shown that risk methods developed in the oil & gas industry, like the qualitative and visual ‘BowTie’ risk assessment method, can be used for the control of financial risks and compliance,” Tony Gower-Jones continues. Centric won in de category ‘Best Application of a risk management method’.

The runners-up in this category were YPFB with 'Boosting proactivity' and Til Centrum with 'Co-Creating Patient solutions'.

Winner in the category ‘Best Initiative for compliance & working safely’: State Supervision of Mines - Communicating from a supervisory role

State Supervision of the Mines won de Award in the third category, ‘Best Initiative for compliance & working safely’. Tony Gower-Jones: “By developing a set of BowTie risk models, State Supervision of the Mines clearly communicates the risk assessment requirements towards the oil & gas industry.”

The runner-up in this category was Vodafone with 'Standard Governance, Risk and Compliance'

Criteria

“Judging the nominations, we didn’t just look at the criteria of innovation, effectiveness and leadership, but also whether the organization sets an example for other organizations,” Jop Groeneweg adds.

Lifetime Achievement Awards

For an outstanding achievement in spreading barrier based risk management methods in various industries and on various continents, Paul Haydock, Phil McKenzie, Andy Lidstone, Cliff Edwards, Helge Stangeland and Robin Pitblado received Lifetime Achievement Awards. All of the winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards are active within CGE’s consultancy partner network.

More information

More details about the 25 innovative risk management cases that were nominated can be found here.