David Rubens Associates-Reports

2008 ARTICLES

Crisis Prevention - It’s Not Rocket Science!

Last month I looked at the way in which effective Risk Management could help in identifying both potential problems and potential control measures that would either prevent those unwanted incidents from occurring or would at least minimise the impact of any unwanted event that did occur.... Read more

February

Effective Security – More Complex Than It Seems…

There has been a significant change, certainly since the events of 9/11, in the way that we perceive the whole concept of ‘security’. In previous, perhaps more innocent times, when the main role of security involved protection, whether of a factory, office, person or operation, the skills of the security manager were to identify potential threats, develop effective preventative security measures, and to implement and manage those measures on an on-going basis..... Read more

March

Terrorism – Does it Work?

It may well be seen, in a hundred year time, that the first period of this century will come to be known as ‘The Age of Terror’, and certainly ‘The War on Terror’ will be one of the phrases that will be remembered about this period when everything else will be forgotten..... Read more

April

Heathrow T5 - Another Great British Cock-Up

For those of you who gain joy from seeing the failure of others, the events at Heathrow Terminal 5 over the last few weeks have brought a level of excitement not seen since…..... Read more

May

Drive for Glory

This month we are going to have a look at some economics, and specifically about making money (something that most of us are interested in!).There is a saying in golf that you drive for glory but putt for profit, ie the drive is the dramatic bit, but it is the putting that makes the difference between champagne and lobster or fish and chips..... Read more

August

Beijing Olympics - A Security Perspective

As I am writing this the Olympics are entering into their second week, and apart from a couple of low-level banner-waving protests there have so far been no major security incidents. Outside of Beijing there has been increased anti-government activity in outlying Chinese regions such as Xinjiang, where Islamic separatists have both attacked local government installations as well as threatened to attack Chinese Olympic facilities, but so far this has not had a significant impact on the Olympics itself ..... Read more

September

It could be you…Countering Islamic Radicalisation

There is a widely held belief that by the time that a government comes to accept something as true, it has usually become so widely acknowledged as to have become almost selfevident, or, in more colloquial language, ‘the statement of the bleedin’ obvious’! Whether it is the fact that children need more exercise, that poverty is linked to poor health or that large corporations are basically in existence to rip the rest of us off, governments seem to need fancy committees to tell them what to everybody seems perfectly clear and simple..... Read more

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