As workplace technology continues to evolve, organisations across industry lines have begun digitising their operations with e-commerce. In fact, recent data found that the UK ranks as one of the top three largest e-commerce markets in the world, totalling over £80 billion in annual online sales. And although offering digital transactions provides numerous benefits—more efficient… Read more »
Category: Business Insurance
11 Things to Consider when reviewing your Business Insurance
We all know what can happen. Your insurance renewal paperwork drops through the letterbox or into your email inbox, and you put it to one side, with the best of intentions to deal with it before it gets to the last minute. Then, surprise, surprise, the renewal date arrives, so you just renew the policy… Read more »
Construction – Professional Indemnity Challenges
It’s Getting Harder to Secure PI Cover in the Construction Sector: What You Can Do In the midst of various large-scale catastrophes over the past few years in the UK construction industry—including the Grenfell tragedy, Carillion’s financial collapse and a range of damaging natural disasters at the hands of climate change—a significant increase in professional… Read more »
Sun Safety Can Save a Life
Here’s How to Protect Employees From the Heat While the warm temperatures and increased sunshine that summertime brings can be an exciting change of pace for your employees, this seasonal heat can also expose workers to additional life-threatening health risks on-site. Indeed, ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun’s rays is a serious risk for employees… Read more »
Several Parties Sentenced After Worker Fell From Height
A company, two directors and a contractor received various sentences after an electrician fell from height through an unprotected stairwell. The employee was performing electrical work on a property owned by the contractor when he fell from a damaged board and landed on the concrete floor, suffering several fractures, a bleed on the brain and… Read more »
Sitting is a Silent Killer
Help Employees Avoid Sedentary Risks in the Workplace While you might envision a high-risk workplace as one that places employees in frequently hazardous situations—such as handling machinery, dealing with dangerous substances or performing heavy lifting—recent research revealed that sedentary behaviour (eg sitting for extended periods) is one of the largest culprits of work-related injury and… Read more »
Cyber Breaches only happen to Big Business – Wrong!
We all hear and read about the big names that have their systems hacked or suffer a loss of data – NHS, EE and British Airways, to name but a few. But it’s not just big firms that are being targeted. Here are just a few findings from the latest survey by the Department for… Read more »
Is your Business Under-insured?
Even if you have insurance policies in place to protect your organisation from the worst-case scenarios, this cover won’t be nearly as effective in the event of a claim if you are engaging in an increasingly common business mistake occurring throughout the country—under-insurance. Indeed, research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors revealed that as… Read more »
Toolkit to help combat Cyber Attacks
Regardless of industry or size, cyber-security has certainly become a significant organisational risk in recent years. Between the increase in high-profile data breaches and the implementation of strict data protection regulations under the GDPR, the consequences of cyber-attacks are difficult to ignore. Indeed, nearly 40 per cent of UK businesses and 20 per cent of charities experienced a data… Read more »
Preventing Counterfeit Components
Within your manufacturing organisation, your employees work with a wide range of product parts and components each day. And although these small pieces may seem insignificant to the average person, your workforce possesses the unique skillset to manufacture these separate parts into a unified, high-quality product for consumer use. But what would happen if one… Read more »