Compliance: the buck stops here

Software company Primavera has warned businesses they must take responsibility for compliance and risk management. The advice follows a pledge by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, to publish legislation making a risk-based approach a statutory duty of legislators.

Addressing the Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) annual conference, the Chancellor outlined details of a new risk-based inspection system that would reward organisations with a good compliance record.

He claimed there would be no