Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Riskonnect
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
[Free to download upon providing contact details] This e-book presents a simple, organised way for businesses to recover stronger, build resilience, and restart right to withstand whatever comes next.
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UN Environment Programme (UNEP), 14th May 2020
Friday Reading Edition 17 (17th July 2020)
What the leading environmental authority in the United Nations (UN) system is doing to help countries build back better after the pandemic to increase resilience to future crises.
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Swiss Re, 12th May 2020
Friday Reading Edition 17 (17th July 2020)
Taking a leaf from behavioural science – the salience of this pandemic could help us pay attention to the climate and maintain our new, climate-friendly habits, just as it has led us to comply with social distancing measures.
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BBC, 27th March 2020
Friday Reading Edition 17 (17th July 2020)
Pollution and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen across the world from COVID-19-related restrictions, but is this just a fleeting change? This BBC commentary delves deeper into the issue.
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McKinsey & Co, 9th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 16 (10th July 2020)
This article from McKinsey discusses how post-pandemic recovery will depend on saving lives, sustaining livelihoods, and importantly supporting the quality of life too.
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Mercer, 1st April 2020
Friday Reading Edition 16 (10th July 2020)
Tips on the ergonomics of your workstation to video conferencing.
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ABI, 8th July 2020
[For ABI Members and Associate Members only.] Given the wide-ranging impacts of COVID-19 on General Insurance, senior colleagues in the ABI will provide an assessment of where ABI priorities identified at the start of the year for General Insurance now sit and where areas have been refocussed because of the impacts of COVID-19.
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Airmic, 7th June 2020
Robert Tailby, Principal Casualty Risk Engineer at Chubb Risk Engineering Services, discusses the people safety management systems we’ve all seen so visibly in our everyday lives since the beginning of lockdown, and how the crisis can be used to build resilience into our organisations going forward.
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BSI
BSI’s safe working guidelines have just been enhanced and extended, based on the best and latest information to help prevent a second wave.
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Belfor
From safety checks to supply chain disruption and security measures to staffing, getting back to business is more than just switching the lights back on. These articles from Belfor help you figure out where to start.
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