New Risks Take Off, PRIMA Winner Says

When Mary Stewart first began her career as a risk manager, attendees at a Public Risk Management Association Conference could fill one room. "We would get together and learn from each other, because there wasnt a text book," she said.

Information for risk managers was hard to come by, she said. The Associate in Risk Management designation was in its infancy and there were only a handful of universities around the country that offered risk management courses, Ms. Stewart recalled.

The result was that risk managers had to rely on one another for information, she said. "We passed products back and forth. It was like, Do you use something for drivers' training? Would you give it to me?"

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