CRIS case studies

The CRIS (Crisis) designation is a professional credential offered within the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance's designation track, sitting alongside its other designation programs in the risk management and insurance education portfolio. It is aimed at risk managers, insurance professionals, safety and security leads, and operations or continuity planners who are expected to help an organization anticipate, respond to, and recover from critical incidents rather than only insure against them. The curriculum is organized around four equally weighted domains: crisis and critical incident fundamentals; crisis preparedness and planning; crisis response and communication; and recovery, business continuity and organizational resilience. Central to the material is a broad working definition of crisis - any critical incident involving death, serious injury, or threat to people; damage to the environment, animals, property, and/or data; disruption of operations; threat to the ability to carry out organizational mission and goals; and/or threat to the financial welfare and image of the organization. The CRIS case studies are 5 cases and about 3,250 words.