Certified Safes Ireland™ managing director Alan Donohoe Redd presented an Azur Underwriting Broker iQ webinar on the 28th of July 2022 entitled "A due diligence checklist for HNW safes & strongrooms" at 11:00 BST. Accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK) delegates participating in the webinar could claim up to 45 CPD points.

The webinar covered:

1. The accredited European testing and certification system for safes and strongrooms as established under EU Parliament regulation 765/2008.

2. What properly accredited safe and strongroom certification plates look like.

3. Types of accredited certification for safes and strongrooms

4. Marks often mistaken for accredited European certification of safes and strongrooms.

5. Major differences between the source and basis of recommended insurance rates for safes and strongrooms in the UK, the Republic of Ireland and the rest of Europe.

6. Understanding the UK's AIS Safe Rating List.

7. A five point risk assessment checklist for certified safes and strongrooms.

About the presenter

Certified Safes Ireland™ in-house advisor on keeping jewellery, watch collections, goods, cash, documents and data, safe, secure, yet readily accessible, is Alan Donohoe Redd.

Alan Donohoe Redd is a member of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Working Group responsible for writing European Standards for safes, strongrooms (vaults), secure cabinets and physical data protection for the European Union and a member of the U.S. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards Technical Panel TC72 covering standards for fire resistance of record protection devices. Alan is also a registered NATO supplier and a longstanding member of the European Security Systems Association. Alan has a vast range of experience spanning almost 40 years encompassing installation of safes, strongrooms, physical data protection, CCTV, alarms, access control, secure storage control systems and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) specification, design and installation. 

An expert on standards and fraud issues related to secure storage in Europe, the UK and the use of asbestos in European safe and cabinet manufacturing, Alan has had articles related to these subjects published by The Law Society Gazette and Irish Broker Magazine, has forced retractions of multiple false claims related to secure storage offerings to the public and has been pivotal in having misleading standards and practices recognised and withdrawn in Ireland, the UK and at a European level.

Alan's seminars on safes, strongrooms and high net worth secure storage have been part of Continuing Professional Development for underwriters and insurers having been awarded CPD points by the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK).

 Alan's expertise has been relied on by:

N.A.T.O. Europe, The U.S. Air Force (Europe), The National Treasury Management Agency (Ireland), The Department Of Communications (NCSC Cyber Security) (Ireland), The Revenue Commissioners, Electricity Supply Board (Cyber Security) (Ireland), The Danish Defence Forces (Afghanistan), PayPal (Worldwide), Grant Thornton, The Insurance Institute of Ireland, The Royal College Of Surgeons, BFC Bank, Interxion Data Centres, The Private Security Authority, Isle of Man Gold Bullion, Brown Thomas, Bvlgari, Boodles, Druids Glen, The Shelbourne Hotel, and many others ....