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The Institute of Crisis and Risk Management (ICRM) 商業風險評估專業協會 is a not-for-profit, the widely recognized, self-regulated, accredited, and most influential professional and certification organisation in the negotiation, mediation, loss security prevention and control, risk, crisis management industry and management consulting services or industries today. With more than 1500 graduates+ from the designed programmes, and the well established on the professional education and qualification framework, we support every individual to have personal, academic and professional career education and development of the business and management sectors, especially on an international basis.

Our Institute "Certification" is used for verifying that our graduates have adequate credentials and competencies to practice certain disciplines, as awarded, as well as for verifying that professional services meet certain requirements, examination, and international standards.

CRP - The Certified Risk Professional will lunch in 2020.  The existing of Certified Risk Planner continuously and widely recognises as the benchmark of professionalism with the business enterprise risk in the business and commercial industry. Graduates are equipped with the methodologies, tools, and competencies necessary to conduct comprehensive assessment and mapping of business enterprise risks profiles in projects and organisations.Graduates are able to identify, assess, and manage risks and opportunities to ensure optimal level performance level for their organisations.

CRT - The Certified Risk Trainer is to certify that graduates have a practical experience and knowledge of risk assessment processes and concepts, and the skills required to implement the practical and systematic risk management mechanism and framework in a working environment. Teaching methods and facilitation skills will also be covered and examined, allowing graduates to deliver in-house business enterprise risk management training. 

CCC - The Certified Crisis Consultant is to demonstrate the specialisation in crisis prevention, response, readiness, and recovery for graduates organisations and their employees. Graduates are specially designed for an individual career growth and development in the executives management or professional crisis management consulting.

CPM - Certified Professional Mediator is accredited to be a business, commercial and family mediator by passing the assessment on the role-play, written examination, and the international code of conduct and standards (compulsory assessment). Graduates are able to have the aptitude and abilities to resolve the conflict in almost every workplace by applying the learnt professional skill set. 

CST - Certified Security Trainer is accredited as a professional and competent trainer in the commercial and business security field. Graduates have dequate experience of working in a fast moving challenging business environment, with knowledge and practical scurity experience of providing the highest level of customer service, training and facilitation skills, whilst working under pressure to meet business goals, and operational needs.

CSN - The Certified Strategic Negotiator provides the most proactive and strategic approach to controlling the critical and important business negotiations. Graduates had the powerful process tools and methodologies to build strategies and tactics with their team/ partners across their business around the world every time you need to ...

Practitioners/specialists/trainers/consultants/mediators must complete demanding assessment and examinations to qualify. A "Diploma and/or professional Certificate" will be issued by our Institute when participants are successfully passed in the qualifying and professional examination. "Fellowship" is the highest professional qualification. All members who demonstrates the further professional development or excellent profiles, including a major achievement or contribution to the industry may apply for election to Fellowship.


Professional Membership Category
Our Institute have the following classes of membership and admission requirements:

Fellow Members 資深院仕
Persons who are executives of distinction in the business industry or the society with at least 10 years' of management experience in the business or persons who by special contribution have furthered the objects of the Institute. A member shall not be admitted as a Fellow Member before awarding a Full Member at least one full year save as under exceptional circumstances, in which case the admission has to be decided by the Council. Fellow Members are allowed to use the professional designation as "FCRP / FCPM /FCST /FCCC/FCSN" on their name card.

Honorary Members 榮譽 資深院仕
Persons of distinction or who in the opinion of the Council, have rendered outstanding contribution to the Institute, may be admitted by the Council as Honorary Members without payment of any subscription of membership. Honorary Members are allowed to use the profession designation as "FCRP(Hon)" or" FCRP(Hon)".

Full Members
The prospective member having passed or exempted all of the required papers in the qualifying examination or assessment, plus a minimum of three years' relevant practical experiences, will be awarded full membership. Full members are allowed to use the post-nominal CPM, CRP or CRT or CST or CCC on their name card.

Corporate Members 商業風險評估專業協會▁公司會員
Corporations are interested in the activities of ICRM and will participate, sponsor, and support the mission and objectives of ICRM.

Graduate Members 商業風險評估專業協會▁畢業會員
Graduate Members are qualified for those who have completed all papers of the qualifying examination or exemptions but have less than 3 years' relevant practical experiences.

Member / Associate Members 商業風險評估專業協會▁普通聯繫會員
Persons who have less than three years' management experience but are interested in the activities of ICRM and support the mission and objectives of ICRM. The designation is "MICRM" or "AICRM".

Affiliate Members 商業風險評估專業協會▁普通附屬會員
People with keen interest and enthusiasm in the furtherance of ICRM's mission and objectives, but not necessarily have any ties with the related industry or management fields.

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Note: The one-off joining fee for CRP / CPM / CRT / CCC / CST / CSN or other memberships, such as the entrance fee (inclusive of a non-refundable fee for administration and evaluation or certificates) are laid down in the following table. The examination fee is HK$1000, and please refer to the CRP assessment for details. If your employer is a corporate member, you are entitled to have a special discount of 15% on the joining fee, 10% on the annual membership fee, and 10% on all ICRM's training programme.

Existing members of ICRM may apply and upgrade their professional membership to a different tier at anytime if they meet the professional requirements of the next higher tier. The applicants have to pay the entrance & assessment fee and annual membership fee for the new tier.

MEMBERSHIP FEES are effective for one year from the date you join. Any members who fail to renew his/her membership, he/she needs to re-submit an application for membership for validation and certification purposes and shall pay the entrance fee and membership fee again. Besides, it is a matter of discretion for individual employers/organizations to recognize any qualification to which this course may lead.

With effect from 1st January 2020, the membership fees are revised as follows:

Effective 2 April 2023, the examination fee is HK$1800 for each professional designation. If a participant has any financial difficulty, compassionate grounds, or unemployed, please apply to the Institute for special consideration on waving a partial or whole payment of the related fees.