Risk Excellence Awards
Open for entries now
Deadline for entries is 3 Feb 2025 at 4pm
Categories
This year we have added a new category: Employee Learning Programme of the Year
Full category list:
To view the full criteria list for each category, please visit our categories & criteria page.
Risk Excellence Awards - Bigger and Better for 2025
The awards will take place on our 50th birthday.
When: Tuesday 20th May 2025
Timings: 7pm – Midnight
Where: The Sheraton Grand, Park Lane, London
What’s new
Grand venue
Bigger audience
Extra hour of networking
New and updated categories
Why take part?
The IIRSM Risk Excellence Awards celebrate all those who contribute to protecting people, reputations and profits. We recognise those organisations, teams and individuals that champion better risk management to drive organisational and employee wellbeing.
Our awards are independent and free to enter for both IIRSM members and non-members. Whether you work for a large multinational with big budgets and lots of resources, or an SME or charity with smaller budgets and limited resources, the principles and benefits of effectively managing risk equally apply.
By attending or entering the IIRSM Risk Excellence Awards you are:
Recognising outstanding risk excellence of individuals, teams and organisations
Highlighting the importance of people, communication and working together to achieve integrated risk-decision making
Enhancing individual, team and organisational profiles within the risk, safety and wider business community
Raising the importance of risk leadership at all levels within an organisation
Sponsorship Opportunities
Supporting the IIRSM Risk Excellence Awards places your organisation at the forefront of a rapidly evolving profession, offering unparalleled exposure to a global network of professionals shaping the future of risk and safety management.
Sponsorship Opportunities start at £3,300 - that's £366 per month for 9 months worth of exposure if you sign up today!
Please contact us to discuss your options - corporates@iirsm.org
Our Host- Timandra Harkness
Timandra Harkness is a writer, broadcaster and presenter.
Timandra is a regular on BBC Radio, writing and presenting BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing and other series including How To Disagree, Steelmanning and Political School. BBC Radio documentaries include Data, Data Everywhere, Divided Nation, What Has Sat-Nav Done To Our Brains, and Five Knots. She was resident reporter on all 8 seasons of social psychology series The Human Zoo and is now the spare presenter for Radio 4’s Profile.
Her book Big Data: does size matter? published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2016, came out in an updated paperback edition in June 2017. Her second non-fiction book, Technology is Not the Problem will be published on May 23rd 2024 by Harper Collins.
Since winning the Independent newspaper’s column-writing competition, she has written for many publications including the Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times, Unherd, BBC Focus magazine, WIRED, Unherd, the New Statesman, Men’s Health and Significance (the journal of the Royal Statistical Society).
Timandra chairs and speaks at public events for clients including Cheltenham Science Festival, the Royal Society, the British Council, the Royal Geographical Society, the RSA, the Institute of Ideas, the British Library, Wellcome Collection, the Alan Turing Institute, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and many others.
In 2010 she co-wrote & performed Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death, with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. They performed the show to average audiences of 100.3 and 4 star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, then toured it in the UK and Australia. Timandra’s science comedy since then includes cabaret, gameshows, and solo live show Brainsex (with Socrates the rat).
