International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)


Address /
Contact Person

CP 99
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
www.irgc.org
Mrs. Marie-Valentine Florin, marie.florin(at)irgc.org


Profile

IRGC is a non-profit and independent organisation whose purpose is to help improve the understanding and governance of systemic risks that have impacts on human health and safety, on the environment, on the economy and on society at large.

 

Key Business / Risk Area

Business Areas:

Energy

Environment

Health

Infrastructure & Construction

Materials/Nanotechnology

Social science & humanities

Transport

Food

Industrial Technologies

ICT

Security

Space

Other:

Risk Areas:

Risk Governance

Industrial Risk

Environmental Risks

Occupational Risks

Financial Risks

Social/Societal Risks

Health Risks

Asset Integrity Risks (RBI etc.)

Life Cycle Analysis

Standards and Regulations

Other:

  















Main Products / Services

  • Concepts for risk governance
  • Application to risk issues in emerging, ignored or neglected fields

Key Projects
(running or just finished)

  • IRGC Risk Governance Framework
  • IRGC Risk Governance Deficits
  • IRGC Contributing Factors to Risk Emergence
  • IRGC protocol for Emerging Risk Governance
  • IRGC guidelines for unconventional gas development





Why we joined EU-VRi?

To partner with scientific and business organisations active in the field of risk governance, and engage on implementation projects.