But, since they expanded so fast, the quality of their risk management has not been tested by a market downturn.

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Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.

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Rather than undertaking a major push, firms seem content to re-use previous technology investments while trying to improve the timeliness and quality of the data and improving the integration with other risk management tools.

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The Care Quality Commission expressed concerns about nutrition standards and management of patient risk in November last year after an inspection.

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Even then, professional, regulatory and internal quality and risk management policies generally require second partner reviews and other supervision of even the work of partner level licensed professionals.

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No children were deemed at "immediate risk" but the report said failings in case recording, quality of practice and management oversight led to "some children being inadequately protected".

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To avoid the risk of contaminants being mixed into the recycled plastic, the new recycling system performs quality control based on a chemical substances risk management database developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, thereby ensuring that notebook PCs and other ICT devices comply with legal requirements for chemical components.

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