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Risk managers who stay "open till late"

The British Corner Shop Risk Managers Association (Bcsrma) annual conference gets underway next week at a Travel Lodge on the M3 in the Lower Sodburton. motorway services area.

With the focus heavily on interactive workshops, corner shop risk managers can choose from a wide array of seminars covering all aspects of risk in the urban and rural retail environments.

Disaster recovery expert
Sean Gropes:

Dave Glasses, integrated risk placement specialist with Boron Broker Inc (BBI) will outline the impossibility of implementing an enterprise risk management process in a village Londis store. He will explain how it is too complex, expensive and unworkable for even the biggest corporations and why it is entirely inappropriate for a mini-mart.

Handling a product recall is every retailers' nightmare. Kevin Duerr, proprietor of the Lower Sodburton Konvenience Korner explains how his business was nearly brought to its knees when Doris Stake from up the road brought back a carton of semi-skimmed milk that was well past its best before date.

The topical subject of business continuity management is tackled by disaster recovery consultant Sean Gropes. He takes the hypothetical situation of a suburban newsagent finding that all his paperboys have come down with bird ‘flu. Who will deliver the morning papers? The situation goes from bad to worse when the imaginary newsagent finds his van won't start.

The entry level for cost effective use of captive insurance is getting lower and now small businesses can take advantage of protected cell companies. David and Sheila Trabant, co-proprietors of the Trabant Bakery in Goole take their holidays in Guernsey every year for a reason - they are visiting their captive manager!

The European Commission recently widened the scope for environmental liabilities and corner shops can now be fined in excess of Euros100 million if so much as a sweet wrapper blows down the High St. And what happens if a customer ties their dog up outside your shop and it does a poo? Who is responsible? Find out in the EIL workshop.

"Outsourcing - what are the risks?" will address the additional exposures shopkeepers face. Roy Patel outsourced all his back-office accounts and stocktaking work to his cousin but then fell out with him after an argument over who was India's greatest ever leg spin bowler. In his workshop Roy will almost certainly end up talking about cricket as it is much more interesting than outsourcing.