The Trinidad and Tobago Risk Management Institute (TTRMI) will be Trinidad and Tobago’s leading risk education Institute. We are independent, well-respected advocates of the risk profession, owned by practicing risk professionals. TTRMI passionately believes in the importance of risk management and that investment in education and continual professional development leads to more effective risk management. We provide qualifications, short courses and events at a range of levels from introductory to expert. TTRMI supports risk professionals by providing the skills and tools needed to put theory into practice in order to deal with the demands of a constantly changing, sophisticated and challenging business environment.
THE INSTITUTE PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS:
Recognition – we aim to ensure that institute membership provides professional recognition and support for risk managers at every stage of their careers by providing challenging professional qualifications and promoting their value to key audiences
Networking – we aim to provide opportunities for members to network with other likeminded people to develop themselves as professionals, to share knowledge and experience and to facilitate business contacts
Knowledge – we aim to promote technical and ethical excellence in risk management not only through our professional qualifications and membership but also through other activities including short training courses, knowledge sharing activities and events and publications
Career Support – we aim to support individuals through every stage of their risk management careers by providing opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills and develop a professional profile and network.
THESE BENEFITS WILL RESULT FROM ACHIEVING THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES:
- To provide training courses, knowledge sharing activities and events for risk practitioners or to those wishing to become risk practitioners.
- To provide discussion forums for risk representatives of various industries to address topical, difficult, risk management issues and to help shape the strategic agenda for, and evolution of, the risk management profession locally and regionally.
- We aim to support individuals and organizations both private and public, through every stage of their risk management development by providing opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills and develop a professional profile and network
- To provide support to senior risk professionals so that they can easily exchange and benchmark ideas and developments in risk management to the benefit of their respective institutions.
- To produce and distribute occasional papers on topical risk management issues, aiming to link academic excellence with the practical requirements of workable solutions. These papers can include academic research papers that have been vetted and enriched by discussion with risk practitioners, as well as shorter papers and articles for a wider distribution.
- To work with governmental and private institutions to develop and implement risk management frameworks for their respective usage and to train and educate their workforce which will ensure they become more risk intelligent employees
- To act as a representative body for the risk management fraternity locally and regionally
- To be a repository of risk information from organizations across all industries that includes but not limited to the following:
- Financial losses
- Near misses
- Health and Safety statistics
- Productivity and efficiency levels
- Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance
- To enhance the risk culture within all local institutions thereby helping to increase their productivity and efficiency levels which in turn can ensure an increase in Trinidad and Tobago’s competitiveness