Risk management expert Brenda Rivers shares tips to help meeting and event planners prepare for the “next normal” as in-person meetings and events begin to ramp up.

If you are starting from meetings and events risk management program from scratch, need to revamp an outdated crisis management plan or to develop an enterprise-wide meeting and event risk management strategy, take a page from travel risk management. Read more.

It’s impossible to predict how the coronavirus will affect international and U.S. meetings and events, so have a risk management plan to prepare. Read how.

Following are 10 tips for a risk management strategy that puts attendee safety first and meets the four duty of care standards: investigate, inform, recommend and prepare.

In today’s world, the chance of a crisis interrupting your meeting or event isn’t so much the “if” it will happen, but “when” it might happen and “what” that crisis might be. The other reality is that while you can’t foresee and prevent many crises, there are steps that every planner should take to ensure they are prepared to handle any issue that comes along, as part of their “duty of care.”

Andavo Meetings' Brenda Rivers explains what Duty of Care means to meeting planners and how they can fulfill the obligation.